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Recent articles by Catherine Dixon

Phil Baines rememberedIssue 106, Summer 2024
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                                            Friends and colleagues pay tribute to the influential British typographic designer, writer and teacher (and cycling enthusiast), who died in January [EXTRACT]            
A celebration of sansIssue 104, Spring 2023
Review
This is a publication that celebrates the form of the book itself, being co-published by Ésad, who previously published an even more esoteric Morlighem project.
Signs of street lifeIssue 101, Summer 2021
Review

                                                At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…                        
Strategy is never enoughIssue 94, Summer 2017
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	In these information-saturated, cash-strapped times, David Pye’s concept of ‘workmanship’ has much to teach us            
Quiet man of  lettersIssue 86, Autumn 2013
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	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            
A visual map from A to ZIssue 71, Spring 2009
Review

                                                This book is the clearest introduction I’ve read to the story of how the alphabet…                        
Incomplete and oversimplifiedFeature

                                    
Letters from a partial historyIssue 39, Spring 2001
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                                                Rudolf Koch was a man whose love of letterforms shaped a career that was to…                        
Terms of referenceIssue 68, Summer 2008
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                                            A modest dictionary of print terms has been a source of inspiration for 60 years.            
Why we need to reclassify typeFeature

                                    
A million stories in the naked cityIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Review

                                                The Light Surgeons’ LDN-Redux, which premiered in São Paulo in July, is a 35-minute audiovisual…                        
Times Classic: design analysisIssue 40, Summer 2001
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Catherine DixonIssue 71, Spring 2009
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	‘Serifs are the new sans’            
Sense of placeIssue 58, Winter 2005
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                                            Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history            
Letter rich LisbonIssue 54, Winter 2004
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                                            Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape            

Recent blog posts about Catherine Dixon

Village people

20 September 2014
Design history, Graphic design, Typography

Ditchling’s elegantly revamped museum places Eric Gill in the everyday context of extraordinary craftspeople

The small Sussex village of Ditchling, near the South Coast of England, was in 190…

Something to say

7 November 2012
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Technology, Typography

The current vogue for letterpress is more than mere retro-nostalgia, writes Catherine Dixon in the run-up to Friday’s St Bride conference.

Letterpress is everywhere, writes Catherine Dixon (co-organiser of ‘Letterpress: Something to Say’). Once a boutique…

Can design do what?

25 May 2012
Design education, Graphic design, Illustration, Technology, Visual culture

Dutch conference looks at the potential of design to address social problems

What design can do! (WDCD) was a two-day conference, held earlier this month in Amsterdam, that…

Type Tuesday

23 January 2012
Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Quirky ligatures and swash characters: serifs are the new sans

Are we living in a golden age of type? This is a time of consolidation…

Letterpress: a lingering impression

5 November 2011

A week before a one-day event at the St Bride Foundation in London, a survey of recent activities which explore the enduring relevance of letterpress.

Letterpress is everywhere. First, it was a boutique fashion of designer-types. Now it’s in John…