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The space between the letters

Moira Cullen

Matthew Carter's new identity for the Walker Art Centre is a typeface family with 'snap-on' serifs
 

Permanent innovation

Richard Hollis

With his ‘livre objets’ for the French book clubs, Pierre Faucheux invented a new genre
 

Signs of trouble

Julia Thrift

British designer David Crow uses his personal projects to question the authority of the graphic image. By Julia Thrift
 

Type play for kids

Steven Heller

It has taken decades for expressive typography to win acceptance in the world of the children's book
 

Branding as mythology

Will Novosedlik

Branding experts draw on centuries of myth-making to imbue products with emotional symbolism
 

Enigma variations

Max Bruinsma

Studio Dumbar uses its posters for the Zeebelt Theatre in the Hague for anarchic type experiments
 
Archive: International Picture Language

Archive: International Picture Language

Robin Kinross

Otto Neurath’s 1936 book was the fullest exposition of his vision of an international visual language
 

Reputations: Josef Müller-Brockmann

Yvonne Schwemer-Scheddin

‘I would advise young people to look at everything they encounter in a critical light … Then I would urge them at all times to be self-critical.’
 

Central Lettering Record

Phil Baines

Central Saint Martins' collection of historical letterforms and type samples is an invaluable resource
 

Blam: the essence is speed

William Owen

William Owen looks at design in the age of digital reproduction