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Phil Baines

Recent articles by Phil Baines

Max’s life is all mapped outIssue 101, Summer 2021
Review

                                                This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and can…                        
Pieced together in AmblesideIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Review

                                                I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’ work, probably an…                        
The wrong browsersIssue 62, Winter 2006
Review

                                                It gives me no pleasure to say that this is a truly dreadful book that…                        
Sense of placeIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature

                                            Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history            
Letter rich LisbonIssue 54, Winter 2004
Feature

                                            Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape            
A new understanding of spacesIssue 52, Summer 2004
Review

                                                There are many good reasons why the names of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) and Francesco Griffo (1450-1518)…                        
The end of typography: slow death by defaultIssue 51, Spring 2004
Opinion

                                            Designing for the partially sighted: misguided guidlines            
When in Rome: eat, drink and talk typeIssue 46, Winter 2002
Review

                                                Since January 2001, ATypI’s worldwide membership has had the advantage of its own email list to…                        
A cast of thousandsIssue 45, Autumn 2002
Feature

                                            The future of type design            
User-friendly book of booksIssue 44, Summer 2002
Review

                                                I’ve long been a fan of Alan Bartram’s writing. An Atlas of Typeforms (co-written with James…                        
Reading the newsIssue 44, Summer 2002
Feature

                                            In an-depth pictorial essay Phil Baines examines the ways major UK newspapers, tabloid and broadsheet, presented the events of September 11            
Required reading for studentsIssue 42, Winter 2001
Review

                                                The days of marking up copy for typesetting could be fraught with difficulty and demanded considerable…                        
Face lift: new cuts at The TimesIssue 40, Summer 2001
Feature

                                            
	When technological developments at The Times demanded a change in the newspaper’s typography, a brand new typeface was commissioned, prompting a new analysis of the font’s long and complex history            
Looking this way and thatIssue 39, Spring 2001
Review

                                                In his introductory essay to Ed Fella’s book Lewis Blackwell writes: “America, unlike Europe, for…                        
Sculptured letters and public poetryIssue 37, Autumn 2000
Feature

                                            Sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs and poet Joan Brossa had little in common but a fierce pride in the city and culture of Barcelona, where their open-air letterforms grace the streets, squares and parks            
A design (to sign roads by)Issue 34, Winter 1999
Feature

                                            
	As an exemplary rational design programme, the road signs of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert demand careful study. Despite poor application, inconsistent additions and muddle over the past four decades, their robust, flexible system – with its humane typeface and quirky pictograms – still functions throughout the length and breadth of Britain            
Like the 1980s never happenedIssue 17, Summer 1995
Review

                                                In 1987, Gert Dumbar won the D&amp;AD gold award and two groups of his Royal…                        
Central Lettering RecordIssue 15, Winter 1994
Feature

                                            Central Saint Martins' collection of historical letterforms and type samples is an invaluable resource            
Type paintings of a digital artistIssue 14, Autumn 1994
Review
What should have been a celebration of a body of work of great merit and interest has been done a disservice.
Modernity and traditionIssue 7, Summer 1992
Opinion

                                            Modernism tried to break with the past; traditionalists embrace it. But any kind of ism is fated to become an anachronism            