Feature: Typography
Looking at magazines looking at themselves
Five enormous, lavish books celebrate the achievements of five legendary titles: Harper’s Bazaar…
Serious goals
Art director Robert Priest turned editor to make Eight by Eight, an ambitious football title based in…
Reputations: Gail Bichler
‘Our content is hard to come by. You are designing in real time about world events. The freedom we have…
Reputations: Atlas, Astrid Stavro and Pablo Martín
‘You have to be the orchestra conductor, taking control of all these elements and making them magically…
Smoke signals from Brazil
Staff and students are fighting for the survival of Rio de Janeiro’s historic school of design. ESDI’s…
We Made This: Technical challenge
Sarah Snaith talks to Briar Levit, director of a new film on the history of graphic design
Systematic play
Using intuition, research and process, the work of Armin Lindauer and Betina Müller revitalises…
Exposing the menace
David King’s posters integrated type and image with power and uncompromising political commitment. By…
A house that type built
Type foundry House Industries – the subject of a hefty new monograph and a retrospective exhibition near…
Expressive geometry
Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family…