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Practice and Process
In a short time, Eric Olson’s highly focused type foundry has won both peer acclaim and high-profile clients
In the neighbourhood
John Ridpath profiles three design practices who work with local clients: Maddison Graphic; Mark Gowing Design; and Bigger Than Giants
Roadshows and rickshaws
Folk images help BBC World Service promote its 21st-century virtues to a rural Indian audience
Visions of Joanna
For the first edition of ‘An Essay on Typography’, Eric Gill used his new serif font in the manner of a scribe
The Couch
Abbott Miller’s installation for the Freud Museum in Vienna puts exhibition design theory into practice
Publish and be damned
As Private Eye celebrates its best sales figures for 25 years, lifelong subscriber Andrew Billen describes its winning mix of gossip, serious exposés, parodies, cartoons and attention-grabbing covers
David Pearson: inside out
The man who made series design fashionable (and profitable) at Penguin is also a publisher who relishes the ‘big puzzle’ of books.
The show must go on
Buy a pension or a huge collection of theatrical type? For Celia Stothard and Alan Kitching, the choice was clear.
From object to observer
Exhibitions blend the complexities of architectural space with the narrative concerns of book design