Feature: Typography

 
Character studies

Character studies

Michael Johnson’s project to make a ‘phonetic typeface’ that English speakers can understand
 
Allan Fleming: The man who branded a nation

Allan Fleming: The man who branded a nation

At a pivotal moment in Canada’s history, Allan Fleming’s typographic designs for stamps, books, advertisements, logos and big civic projects shaped the look of the country, leaving a vital legacy
 
Different strokes

Different strokes

Sensitive details and technological ingenuity make Alejandro Paul’s script typeface designs both highly regarded and hugely popular
 

Pichação [EXTRACT]

The architecture of São Paulo, Brazil, is covered by a unique form of calligraphic graffiti
 

Typostalgie

Nostalgia for Germany’s old East has led to renewed interest in certain pre-1989 typefaces
 
South Bank show

South Bank show

The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival of Britain – on one side only
 
Memory of books

Memory of books

An elaborate, tactile catalogue – and a digital typeface – pay tribute to a golden age of Spanish typography.
 

Set the letters free

Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne turned discarded packaging type into ‘stammering concrete poetry’
 
Willem Sandberg: Warm printing

Willem Sandberg: Warm printing

The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography
 
Reputations: George Lois

Reputations: George Lois

‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In research, great ideas are always suspect.’
 
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