Feature: Typography
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
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
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’
Legible in public space
Whether as labelling, wayfinding or mere decoration, letters bring function and form to the built environment. By John D. Berry
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
‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In research, great ideas are always suspect.’
Malcolm, Peter … and Keith
The British New Wave was born at a boys’ school near Manchester