Feature: Typography
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design of The Times. He was invited to submit ideas, and this led to a redesign of the paper in 1932, for which he developed Times New Roman. Here he recounts the process.
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.
Robin Nicholas
‘I don’t see myself as a typeface designer. Hermann Zapf is a typeface designer. What I have done is to develop typefaces: pulling component parts of various typefaces that seem to work well and amalgamate those into a new design.’
Machine and man
Art, science and hot metal casting.
Photo essay by Phil Sayer
They work with words: 3
As an exercise in cross-Channel translation, OK-RM has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 2
Modern Toss has devised a typographic spread about the perils and pleasures of punctuation – exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 1
Fraser Muggeridge has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
Street life
Bremen’s street magazine Die Zeitschrift der Strasse is a social project that benefits its student publishers as much as its homeless vendors. By Nick Kapica