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Recent articles by Mark Thomson

Eye type review. Take six fontsIssue 106, Summer 2024
Feature

                                            A snapshot of contemporary type design, with half a dozen reviews by Mark Thomson, Indra Kupferschmid, Silvia Sfligiotti and Dan Reynolds            
Bram de Does: the king of (functional) swingIssue 98, Spring 2019
Feature

                                            
	An insistence that technology should match design spurred typographer Bram de Does to create two of the twentieth century’s most beautiful types            
Reputations: Fred SmeijersIssue 90, Summer 2015
Feature

                                            
	‘My father was a mechanic. Respect – for tools and for the material with which you work – is one thing I got from him. When the chisel is not sharp enough to do a certain job, even if it is just one cut, do not think you can get away with it. Sharpen the chisel properly and only then use it for what you wanted to do.’            
Ways of seeing designIssue 83, Summer 2012
Review

                                                From the breadth and vitality of the recent densely compiled retrospective exhibition of Richard Hollis’s…                        
Reputations: Peter BiľakIssue 75, Spring 2010
Feature

                                            
	‘I have more reasons to make fonts than ever … typeface design is a cumulative process, there are more possible entry points, more references, more inspiration than ever before. As with books, when you engage in reading, it points to more books … you might appreciate the ones you read early on more, because of your new understanding.’            
The Catalogue As ExhibitionIssue 63, Spring 2007
Review

                                                An inescapable fact about exhibiting books is that the essential ingredient of a book –…                        
Reputations: Kris SowersbyIssue 79, Spring 2011
Feature

                                            ‘New Zealand is a young country and hasn’t had the time, or resources to develop a typeface culture. I am free to draw upon multiple influences. I haven’t been taught or exposed to any one particular typographic heritage, so my hand isn’t biased.’             
Visions of JoannaIssue 62, Winter 2006
Feature

                                            For the first edition of ‘An Essay on Typography’, Eric Gill used his new serif font in the manner of a scribe            
Mark ThomsonIssue 71, Spring 2009
Feature

                                            
	‘The variations of nuance and voice are endless’            
Design is not a solutionIssue 62, Winter 2006
Opinion

                                            A piece of design is the expression of an idea. It’s not a solution            

Recent blog posts about Mark Thomson

Open and shut cases

3 May 2012
Book design, Illustration, Photography, Visual culture

Bracewell’s ‘The Space Between’: the essence of a book as artwork

It is not often that entire books form the material, or part of the material…

Graphic design by Richard Hollis

4 April 2012
Book design, Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Information design, Reviews

Mark Thomson reviews the exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London

There are few occasions when something is genuinely unmissable, writes Mark Thomson, but for designers…