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Typeface/interface

Jan Middendorp

Andrea Tinnes makes type families — functional or ornamental — that quickly acquire a life of their own

Space and rhythm

Jan Middendorp

Type designer Cyrus Highsmith learnt the craft through both study and apprenticeship. By Jan Middendorp

Back to basics in Basel

Rupert Bassett

Basel School of Design's First Summer Program was a life-changing experience

Remembrance of things past

Jessica Jenkins

The renovation of Paris’ oldest métro line reveals traces of a century of billboard advertising

Ugly-beautiful [extract]

Adrian Shaughnessy

The work of one of France’s most original graphic voices bristles with contradictions

Paper offerings for the dead

Anthony Oliver

Paper replicas of consumer objects are burnt as offerings to the dead at Ching Ming

Buy this book

Steven Heller

Jürgen Holstein’s volume of rare Weimar-era jackets and covers is an extraordinary labour of love

Sense of place

Catherine Dixon, Phil Baines

Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history

Lost worlds

Val Williams

Vernacular photography. Innocence regained? Or just another kind of fiction?

Letter rich Lisbon

Phil Baines, Catherine Dixon

Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape