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Wit, bad taste and loud type
The photos of legendary graphic designer Robert Brownjohn show an outsider’s view of 1960s London
Colouring in the city
Camille Walala’s exuberant, colourful designs for the Splice Post building bring warmth and vitality to London’s Old Street
Killing joke at the expense of history
Swissted’s typographic homages turn Modernist design history into hollow commodities for a new ‘blank generation’
The case of Romek Marber
The Polish-born graphic designer behind Penguin’s ‘Marber grid’ helped to define British postwar graphic design with work of great power and originality. His work can be seen in a touring exhibition, now in Krakow. Interview by John L. Walters. Portrait by Philip Sayer
Face in the crowd
Amid the rush of modern gadgetry, Kuchar Swara’s Sekford watches stand out because they are, paradoxically, timeless
Stamped in the memory
The Gentle Author’s book about East London print and envelope specialists the Baddeley Brothers demonstrates the very crafts it celebrates
London Letters
Philip Sayer photographs lettering on the streets of London in this alphabetical compendium
Counter intuition
A short type design course will never turn you into a type designer. But it may make you a better typographer
Beyond Latin
Gerry Leonidas, John Hudson, Neelakash Kshetrimayum, Kamal Mansour, Pascal Zoghbi, Eye critics
As digital tools liberate type design from arcane limitations, more people become free to communicate using their own alphabets and languages. Gerry Leonidas chairs a panel of designers discussing the global state of ‘non-Latin’ type
James Mosley: A life in objects
Through his ideas, collecting and dogged research, the former St Bride librarian has shown that printing history can be both lively and opinionated. The world of typography owes him a great debt