Mark Noad

Recent blog posts about Mark Noad

Lettering in the landscape

15 August 2024
Design education, Visual culture, Events and exhibitions

Mark Noad, Chair of the Lettering Arts Trust, considers the training and design behind hand-carved lettering and looks forward to two exhibitions of the carver’s art in the UK
Two questions are regularly levelled at letter-carvers: ‘what typeface is it?’ and ‘don’t you have…

From stone to screen

27 September 2019
Book design, Design education, Design history, Typography, Visual culture

Curator Mark Noad explains the thinking behind ‘Rock Paper Pixel’, a new exhibition at the Lettering Arts Centre in Snape
Letter Exchange is an organisation for professionals in the lettering arts – calligraphy, letter cutting…

‘XXX’ marks the spot

6 September 2018
Design history, Graphic design, Technology, Typography, Visual culture

Letter Exchange, a network of professionals in the lettering arts, type design and typography, is to host a conference in Cambridge in October
2018 marks the 30th anniversary of Letter Exchange, the organisation for professionals in the lettering…