Feature
Quiet spirit of joy
By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to commercial printing
Typeface/interface
Andrea Tinnes makes type families — functional or ornamental — that quickly acquire a life of their own
Space and rhythm
Type designer Cyrus Highsmith learnt the craft through both study and apprenticeship. By Jan Middendorp
Sense of place
Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history
Lost worlds
Vernacular photography. Innocence regained? Or just another kind of fiction?
Letter rich Lisbon
Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape
If the image of the text … has more value than its content …
With visual culture triumphant and content marginalised, how can typography be defined?
Reading the news
In an-depth pictorial essay Phil Baines examines the ways major UK newspapers, tabloid and broadsheet, presented the events of September 11
Visual systems of life and death
In this appendix to ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’, Paul Kahn outlines more of the dynamic visual systems that help our understanding of Covid-19