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Love of lexicons

Love of lexicons

Rick Poynor

The dictionary framework allows readers to find random nuggets of information, forging connections that reflect the arbitrary nature of life.
Looking for clues

Looking for clues

Rick Poynor

Notebook in hand, Paul Davis works like a journalist, trying to figure out what makes us tick
Britain’s signature

Britain’s signature

John L. Walters

Margaret Calvert signed the UK – from road to rail to air. Now Henrik Kubel has digitised her Rail Alphabet

The idea is the machine

Abbott Miller

Style is addictive, While structure comes from within, generating form from the inside out

Daily Mirror

Eye editors

In the hands of Dieter Rot, the British newspaper was transformed into a striking artist’s book

Self-explanatory

John O'Reilly

Postcards from Sans + Baum; Müller + Hess’s Xmas horror …

Self-control. self-raising

John O'Reilly

Pentagram are ‘time-rich’. Browns are the young establishment.

Self-aggrandising, self-satisfied

John O'Reilly, John L. Walters

Brochures: Frost, Push, Elliott Peter Earls, the Office of CC …

Self-evident, self-motivated, self-perpetuating

John O'Reilly, John L. Walters

Creative work by Experimental Jetset, Mother, Struktur and others
Naked words

Naked words

Jason Godfrey

Type-only book covers – whether deliberately austere, functional … or shouting loud from the shelves – have always had a place in publication design.