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Blog: Typography

15 December 2009

The romance of chemicals

hamish thompson

A portrait of Swiss designer Max Schmid, father of ‘Geigy style’, by New Zealand typographer Hamish Thompson

Zurich is a long way from my home in Wellington, New Zealand, so I missed…

10 December 2009

Hat-Trick card trick

things we like

Typographic treats (or what Jim Sutherland did on his holidays)

You wouldn’t want to play poker or spit with a pack like this, but type-spotters…

9 December 2009

The art of mass market mags

the events department

How do you design a cover that sells? Andy Cowles reveals all on 16 Dec 09

With their multiple pictures, blocks of angled type and fluorescent Pantone colours, the covers of…

5 December 2009

The form of the book

jane cheng

Fifteenth-century book-making – white space by design and default

It is usually argued by incunabulists (specialists in works printed prior to 1501) that the…

3 December 2009

Stop press

the type department

Tickets available for an Eye evening with Alan Kitching & Celia Stothard

Next week, there’s a special opportunity to hear Alan and Celia talk about their prints…

2 December 2009

Sleeves we like

john l. walters, things we like

Robert Flynn’s covers for Impulse! expressed ideas more than sounds

The Impulse! label LP covers by Robert Flynn / Viceroy are among the best of…

26 November 2009

Ms C’s sketchbook

the picture department

Margaret Calvert pays tribute to typographer Phyllis Pearsall

Mrs P’s Journey by Margaret Calvert is an A2, seven-colour screen-print, available from the Design…

19 November 2009

Fine words for Kitching / Stothard

john l. walters

Breathing life into the dying embers of letterpress … to light graphic fireworks

The great thing about spoken tributes, when they’re done well, is that they give the…

18 November 2009

Bigger is better

sara martin

Paula Scher relates ‘A series of strange circumstances’ for her D&AD talk

Paula Scher started her talk in London last week with examples of her work from…

4 November 2009

Early adopter: Desmond Jeffery

simon esterson

St Bride hails the ‘non-designer’ who’s an unsung hero of British Modernism

The most exciting graphic design exhibition I’ve seen in London recently is at the St Bride…

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