Derek Birdsall
Recent articles about Derek Birdsall
Powered flight
Issue 88, Summer 2014
For fifteen years, Pegasus, an international biannual corporate magazine designed by Derek…
Devil in the detail
Issue 83, Summer 2012
Careful, even-tempered typographer by day – wild art director by night? For John Morgan, both the…
Understanding silly books
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Turning Python’s TV humour into cold print required some very serious graphic design
Pre-postmodernity
Issue 50, Winter 2003
Does a small book from nearly 30 years ago encapsulate a ‘golden age’?
Naked words
Issue 82, Winter 2012
Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the…
‘Type-only Penguins sell a million’ shock
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Penguin uses design to revitalise its back catalogue with Great Ideas and a revived Reference…
White space black hat
Issue 9, Summer 1993
Derek Birdsall harbours a secret. It has given him 30 years at the top. If it works, he says, use…
Recent blog posts by Derek Birdsall
Noted #71
3 November 2015