Blog: Typography
7 September 2012
Slow hand
Three elective design courses at New Zealand’s CoCA demonstrate how the pace of physical printing helps the graphic design process.
The manual qualities of printing slow down the creative process, writes Nick Kapica, and provide…
6 September 2012
Pause to play
Marcus Leis Allion hails Song Board – an interactive installation for King’s Cross commuters
This summer, as passengers rush through the new entrance to London’s King’s Cross Station to…
28 August 2012
Reasons to change your name
Brighton’s September conference for coders and designers is back with a bang (but less Flash)
Every September since 2006, I’ve going to Brighton for the conference I founded, writes John…
10 August 2012
Golden conundrum
Five years on, the ‘dissonant’ London 2012 visual identity still doesn’t work. Meanwhile, designers pine for Tokyo, Mexico City and Munich …
By Elizabeth Glickfeld
‘Let the games begin,’ they said, and so to the latest round of logo-bashing writes…
24 July 2012
Type Tuesday: Presstival
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Preview of a late summer festival for British print and type enthusiasts
We like the sound of ‘Presstival’, otherwise known as the annual open day of the…
22 July 2012
Noted #40
Typecache, marginal Brazil, mags with letters, Malick Sidibé’s studio
Here are a few more links that caught our attention in recent days. Typecache.com is…
17 July 2012
Best in show
Design through a typographic lens – a report from last night’s TDC Awards in New York by Doug Clouse
Best in show http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3199/2924253970_b60afdf869_o.jpg Design through a typographic lens – a report from last night’s…
13 July 2012
Noted #39
Olympic graphics watch – pictograms, logos & signs that keep the flame alive
Here are a few reflections on Olympics graphics that caught our attention.More to come –…
11 July 2012
Type Tuesday: Naked words
Type-only book covers: austere, functional … or shouting out loud
Once upon a time, book jackets were almost all pure typographic compositions: these were the…
6 July 2012
Otl Aicher’s interjections
The ‘Munich ’72’ Design Legacy exhibition & symposium in Canterbury
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Otl Aicher’s design work for the 1972 Munich…