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Telling and selling
Cooper Black is one of the emblematic typefaces of the twentieth century. Who was the man behind the face?
Relics of the Modern
Doing up typefaces is not like doing up buildings – more like re-creating the parts from which buildings can be made
Teaching in the spaces between code and design
Jürg Lehni on the lessons of his Applied Scriptographer Research, carried out with Jonathan Puckey at ECAL
Yin and yang
Matthew Carter, co-founder of the first major digital foundry, explains how he came to design his first wood type
Sound and vision
Given the visceral feelings stirred by music, it’s time we found new, meaningful associations between music and design.
Design + music = magic
The scene creates the style, and sleeves tell us what their contents sound like, but what next?
The shape of the century
How 1960s Op Art and cut-up culture informed the cover designs of Fontana Modern Masters in the 1970s.
Not all black and white
Changes in South African photobooks reveal a nation now free to explore its self-image