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Tony Brook on collecting
Spin’s founder, the subject of Reputations in Eye 86, talks about his passion for poster collecting
Rub-down revolution
A generation before home computers, Letraset’s dry transfer lettering made desktop typography possible – and gave a small group of type designers new insights into letterform construction through the art of stencil-cutting
Vapour trails
Steampunk’s florid industrial nostalgia might yet be the defining aesthetic of our time
Type specific
TDC hails the wider world of empathetic wine labels, typographic IDs and retro stationery
Painted thrills and spills
Fred Fowle was the UK’s foremost fairground artist. His go-faster graphics and futuristic lettering live on – in museums and working steam fairs
A tradition with breaks
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.
Quiet man of letters
Alan Bartram brought a perceptive eye to alphabetic detail in public spaces. Catherine Dixon pays tribute to the co-author of An Atlas of Typeforms
Reputations: Tony Brook
‘What other profession do you end up in where you learn so much about other people’s businesses than in graphic design? It’s remarkable. Clients will tell you everything. It’s like being a therapist. That’s really exciting. You never know what’s going to happen from one week to the next.’
The accessible elite
Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’
