Opinion
John L. Walters
It is in the nature of an Eye type special issue to be full of the shapes of letterforms and images of letters.
Paul Shaw
Digital technology and online resources have prompted a flowering in type history, says Paul Shaw
Magazines,
Rick Poynor
Indie magazine Hellebore channels folk horror and the occult with an alchemical sense of graphic style. Critique by Rick Poynor
Features
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson, Eye editors
Lucas Sharp: ‘The
only thing keeping me excited about being in this industry, and doing this
work, is the stuff I have yet to draw.’
Chantra
Malee: ‘We could have
sold the entire foundry but ... what are we
supposed to do for the rest of our lives?’
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Luca Pitoni
Over two crucial decades at Mondadori, designer Anita
Klinz transformed the look of Italian book publishing. Luca Pitoni tells her
story
Mark Thomson, Indra Kupferschmid, Silvia Sfligiotti, Dan Reynolds
A snapshot of contemporary type design, with half a dozen reviews by Mark Thomson, Indra Kupferschmid, Silvia Sfligiotti and Dan Reynolds
Eye editors, John L. Walters
When the Type Archive left its London premises, its vast collection was disbanded and its working Monotype hot-metal plant moved to the National Collections Centre. Two long-serving volunteers talk to Eye about the challenges they faced and how the history of the Archive is now being preserved. Photographs by Philip Sayer [EXTRACT]
Ferdinand P. Ulrich
The ideas and assumptions behind ‘global’ or ‘multi-script type’ raise complex and nuanced issues that have taxed both type designers and graphic designers for years. Current technology and the demands of communication and ‘branding’ have thrown up debates about the creation of readable documents, signs, packages and websites in which two or more different scripts are obliged to coexist. In this article, designers from different corners of the globe discuss some of the concerns and contradictions that inform the making and setting of multiple scripts with Ferdinand P. Ulrich
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Andy Altmann, Catherine Dixon, Robin Klassnik, Judy Willcocks, Alessia Mazzarella, Kevin Carmody, John L. Walters
Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the influential British typographic designer, writer and teacher (and cycling enthusiast), who died in January [EXTRACT]