Opinion
Design education,
Education,
Elizabeth Resnick
Elizabeth
Resnick looks at the practitioners and educators intent on revising
our understanding of women’s roles in design history
Critical path,
Design education,
Design history,
Rick Poynor
A CalArts book celebrates decades of purposeful graphic weirdness. Critique by Rick Poynor
Features
Véronique Marrier, Deborah Burnstone
‘It is not a question of revisiting a typographic style, but of questioning the means of creating typefaces, of establishing a new formal logic by pushing certain parameters to their maximum.’ Interview by Véronique Marrier
Nebiolo History Project, Marta Bernstein, James Clough, Alessandro Colizzi, Riccardo De Franceschi, Massimo Gonzato, Riccardo Olocco
Though Italy’s most renowned type foundry closed its doors more than four decades ago, its influence endures. By the Nebiolo History Project
Gerry Leonidas
‘Typographics 21’ was a ten-session, online journey that covered type and lettering from around the world – but with the explicit exclusion of Europe and North America. By Gerry Leonidas
Elena Veguillas
This opening session, curated and introduced by Colombian designer César Puertas, had activism and resistance at the core of the three talks …
Anoushka Khandwala
Hosted gracefully by November’s Shiva Nallaperumal, this session touched on type’s radical capabilities as well as its artistic potential …
Ferdinand P. Ulrich
To address issues of Turkish and Persian typography, Chicago-based curator Pegah Ahmadi selected speakers who share the experience of …
Stephen Banham
Under the curation of New York-based Australian type designer Troy Leinster, this session centred on the ‘Pacific’ region, and thoughtfully expanded …
Indra Kupferschmid
‘Typographics 2021’ has been one big, highly accessible and enjoyable world trip. Session five brought us to Russia, or rather, topics circling …
Ferdinand P. Ulrich
YuJune Park and Caspar Lam hosted a session dedicated to East Asian languages and scripts, during which their selected speakers from Hong Kong …
Anoushka Khandwala
The seventh session was conducted in both Arabic and English, highlighting the nature of duality in Arabic type design …
Montserrat Miranda Ayejes
In this South American session, Giulia Fagundes, a 23-year-old Brazilian designer from Estúdio Daó in São Paulo and a director of DNBR (Designers Negres no Brasil) …
Saki Mafundikwa
Simon Charwey, a Ghanaian brand identity designer whose work is entirely inspired by Afrikan symbols and writing systems, curated and hosted this session …
Jan Middendorp
The work of Barcelona type designer Laura Meseguer is a beguiling alchemy of hand- lettering and digital craft. By Jan Middendorp. Photographs by Francesco Brembati
Thilo von Debschitz
Thilo von Debschitz profiles a man who designed some of the best known movie identities of the past six decades.
John L. Walters
Indian design duo November balances commercial practice with a commitment to social change. By John L. Walters