Feature: Typography
Everyday people
Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art world…
Business at the centre
An interview with Sascha Lötscher, managing partner of G+A
Fritz Gottschalk and the Swiss-Canadian connection
Gottschalk + Ash International spans more than five decades, a Swiss design studio with Modernist roots…
Designing with urgency
From politics to culture to business, Dutch studio Thonik strikes a balance between adventurous concepts…
News cycle
Italian designer Francesco Franchi brings magazine finesse to the world of daily newspapers
Art and ambiguity
The identity for Venice Biennale Arte 2019, designed by Melanie Mues, distorts type across a colourful…
The business of type design
The challenges of earning a living from type design, with honest, thoughtful responses from foundries…
New bottle old wine
Drawing on the punches, matrices, specimens and smoke proofs at St Bride Library, Commercial Classics…
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and…
Bram de Does: the king of (functional) swing
An insistence that technology should match design spurred typographer Bram de Does to create two of the…