Monday, 10:17am
29 August 2011
Noted #8
Why care about type? Ben Bos, HMV and playbills from the Leeds archive
More links to sites, articles and interviews that grabbed our attention this week.
‘How to Explain Why Typography Matters’.
‘Many years ago I found it frustrating to justify why typography matters, but today I relish it.’ Thomas Pinney in Communication Arts.
Ben Bos.
A selection of Ben Bos designs from the Dutch memory vault Gehuegen van Nederland. (See also Eye 79.)
Leeds Playbill Archive.
Fantastic collection of letterpress playbill posters from the enormous Leeds archive. Some clicking will reward you with large scans.
Inside HMV.
1960s record store design. Archive photographs of the Oxford Street branch of His Master’s Voice.
29 Letters.
A typography blog that focuses on Arabic typography. (See also Eye 79 review of Typographic Matchmaking in the City.)
More next week: see Noted on the bar to your right.
Eye is the world’s most beautiful and collectable graphic design journal, published quarterly for professional designers, students and anyone interested in critical, informed writing about graphic design and visual culture. It’s available from all good design bookshops and online at the Eye shop. For a taste of the new issue, see Eye before you buy on Issuu. Eye 80, Summer 2011, is out now.