Feature
Robin Nicholas
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
‘I don’t see myself as a typeface designer. Hermann Zapf is a typeface designer. What I have done is to develop typefaces: pulling component parts of various typefaces that seem to work well and amalgamate those into a new design.’
Deep in the Monotype archive
A wide selection of Monotype’s drawings, artworks, publications and vintage photographs spread across a 40-page feature.
Dan Rhatigan: All about workflow
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
Monotype’s UK type director talks about the way the company’s 125-year history informs its approach to twenty-first century challenges.
Show and tell
From great apes and pop fans to real children’s spaces, James Mollison’s photographs invite the viewer to look beyond face values.
They work with words: 3
As an exercise in cross-Channel translation, OK-RM has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 2
Modern Toss has devised a typographic spread about the perils and pleasures of punctuation – exclusively for Eye.
They work with words: 1
Fraser Muggeridge has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
Devil in the detail
Careful, even-tempered typographer by day – wild art director by night? For John Morgan, both the typographic detailing and the grand gestures are essential to each project’s unique ‘atmosphere’. By John L. Walters.
The line of beauty
Script typefaces, currently enjoying an unprecedented popularity, bring a vital element of humanity to the digital age. By Paul Shaw and Abby Goldstein