Feature
Buying time
With shorter, more commercially driven degrees under serious consideration, Steve Rigley argues that design students need more space to speculate and make mistakes.
Gender rendition
Todd Trexler’s Das Black Moonlight poster marked drag’s movement into the public consciousness.
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
Design’s wayward cousins
Humble and often vulgar, chapbooks offer an illuminating window into the medieval world.
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Russian revolution
Polly Corrigan meets the founder of a new graphic design school in Moscow.
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design of The Times. He was invited to submit ideas, and this led to a redesign of the paper in 1932, for which he developed Times New Roman. Here he recounts the process.
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.
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.