Blog: Typography

22 May 2011

World’s greatest sign?

World’s greatest sign?

mike kippenhan

Stockton’s Sno-White dwarfs the opposition, says Mike Kippenhan
Declaring one singular sign the ‘Greatest in the World’ is as recklessly bold as it…

16 May 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

How lettering is made for public display: hand-cutting wood
Andrew Haslam looks at the production of display lettering, and, in this instalment, hand-cutting letterforms…

13 May 2011

Life / work / dog balance

Life / work / dog balance

eye editors

An Eye video interview with Morag Myerscough… and Lemmy
The latest issue of Eye profiles Morag Myerscough in the feature ‘In the thick of…

12 May 2011

Look behind you

Look behind you

jim aulich

Graphic Design: History in the Making at St Bride Library
Conceived by Sara De Bondt and Catherine de Smet, the one-day conference ‘Graphic Design: History…

10 May 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Back with a flourish. Christian Schwartz talks swashes – part one
The twentieth century was not a good time for swashes, often described as the ‘curly…

5 May 2011

A right royal show

A right royal show

liz farrelly

Middle England and middle managers under a steaming pile of Modern Cloth
How often do you walk round an exhibition laughing out loud, asks Liz Farrelly? Not…

4 May 2011

Alphabetical order

Alphabetical order

alexander ecob

Limited-edition book explores Peter Blake’s unpublished letterforms
Victorian publishing values go hand-in-hand with Victorian type in a special book that showcases the…

3 May 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Visions of Joanna: Mark Thomson on Eric Gill’s Essay on Typography
It took me a while to find this book, writes Mark Thomson in Eye 62…

26 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Electrifying the alphabet. Wim Crouwel’s experiments in letterforms
The rapid advances in data-processing that revolutionised office work from the mid-1960s onwards – and…

19 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Antique Olive
Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive (1962-66) is a perfect example of a typeface that has suffered…
 
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