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Public works
For the renovations at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Pierre Bernard devised a temporary system of signs and type to be hoisted high and crossed out.
From notebook to hyperbook
In the Wiener Ausgabe, Michael Nedo translated Wittgenstein’s wide-ranging and intertwined philosophical remarks into typographic form
The impossibility of neutrality
Seclusion is not an option in a global culture where information, money and images move mountains and ignore boundaries.
Dismantling the Basel principle
The freewheeling global agenda of Müller+Hess both destroys and revives the typographic traditions of their home town.
E pluribus unum
An inquiry into myriad associations originating from this most abundantly occurring symbol in our writing: that fifth sign of our Roman ABC.
Typographica
Herbert Spencer’s magazine, a fusion of Modernism and eclecticism, was one of the most remarkable journals to emerge from British cultural publishing
A grammar of ornament
Introducing the ultimate design award: GTF’s Paul Neale and Andy Stevens display the Owen Jones Memorial Trophy, photographed by Angela Moore
Lessons in printing trade journalism
For one issue, under Jan Tschichold’s stewardship, a monthly trade journal, Typographische Mitteilungen, became a beacon for radical typography.
What you see is how you think
A graduate student competition resulted in hybrids of browser and search engine that redraw and re-invent the fundamentals of “surfing the Web”
Travellers’ Tales
A global Esperanto of icons, warning signs on cardboard boxes speak a visual language that leaves no room for misunderstanding