Review
Across the waves
In 2020, New York designer Roger Bova came across a large collection of ‘QSL’ cards at…
The data card trick
Data visualisation occurs at the intersection of design and data. It is a practice that grew…
One brain, four eyes
Nancy Skolos and Tom Wedell met as students at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield…
Mutant letters trickle down
An iron-on flock typeface, primarily available to buy from a few shops in New York between…
Call and response
This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…
The cryptic legacy of Paulo de Cantos
Paulo de Cantos was a teacher and an editor. Between times he created textbooks with his…
We’ll always have Paris
Since its foundation in 1957, ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) has put typeface design and typography at…
How the alphabet became
The current obsession with font design has stimulated the field like nothing else in recent memory…
Going off brand
Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb’s uncompromising handbook of theory and action ends slyly with a ‘Brandspeak’…
Ecological literacy
The result of a decade spent ‘formulating a stronger ecological theory for design’, Joanna Boehnert’s Design…