Blog: Typography

7 February 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Letters that sell: a typographic history of UK department store John Lewis
From store signing to ticketing, customer correspondence, leaflets, advertising and websites, typography plays a crucial…

2 February 2012

Getting away with murder

Getting away with murder

Good, bad and ugly cover ‘tributes’: a new spin on the death of music design.
The album cover may have lost its mojo as far as contemporary culture is concerned…

31 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

From sci-fi to Dickens: onscreen, animated typography by Momoco
In Eye 80, Anne-Marie Conway wrote about Momoco’s way with on-screen typography (see ‘Credits where…

30 January 2012

Noted #28

Noted #28

noted

German stamps, jazz covers, the New Aesthetic, box art and #occupy
A few links to sites, images and texts that have caught our attention over the…

25 January 2012

The form of the essay

The form of the essay

alexander ecob

FLOK’s clothbound series design for publishers Notting Hill Editions
The essay is a form of writing that has largely fallen out of the public’s…

23 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

catherine dixon, type tuesday

Quirky ligatures and swash characters: serifs are the new sans
Are we living in a golden age of type? This is a time of consolidation…

17 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday, yves peters

Review of the Complete Works of type designer Adrian Frutiger
Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the…

11 January 2012

Force of nature

Force of nature

liz farrelly

New Kapitza book replaces geometric certainty with organic structure
Following on from their 2008 book Geometric, the Kapitza sisters, Nicole and Petra, have produced…

9 January 2012

‘Need a new toolbox.’

‘Need a new toolbox.’

john ridpath, type tuesday

Type Tuesday: Made by Many chat about the challenges of webfonts
Eye has covered webfonts several times, most recently in ‘Andmoreagain’ a blog about the 2011Ampersand…

5 January 2012

Joe rocks

Joe rocks

eric gillett

A stone’s throw from Interstate 80 – messages in the snake-infested brush
Short of car trouble or comfort breaks, there’s no real reason to stop along the…
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