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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’
Paper tigers
Deborah Burnstone describes Fedrigoni’s inspirational workshops for secondary school art and design teachers
Learning on location
Linda Kwon looks at ways to learn about type beyond the conventional classroom.