Sébastien Morlighem
Recent articles by Sébastien Morlighem
Rational, exuberant, eclectic
Issue 96, Spring 2018
In a section of his final book, Vision in Motion (1947), László Moholy-Nagy describes what…
A weighty guide to Latin typefaces
Issue 95, Winter 2017
More than ever, typography is an incessant talking (and writing) point. Its history is a…
Poland’s graphic pioneers
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Publications attempting a comprehensive overview of a country’s graphic design history have appeared on a…
Unpredictable Swiss design
Issue 90, Summer 2015
The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, created in 1875, was a pioneer institution in collecting graphic…
Stone love
Issue 88, Summer 2014
Since the early 1960s Michael Twyman has contributed to the establishment and improvement of standards…
Letters on location
Issue 85, Spring 2013
Many francophiles would say that there are more interesting, beautiful cities to visit in France…
On being well read
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
In this shifting digital world, countless websites, blogs and social networks provide instant information on…
Typonauts, start your quest here
Issue 82, Winter 2011
So Type Navigator, curated by Jan Middendorp and the Barcelona-based studio TwoPoints.Net (which, with Victionary…
Mr Mistral
Issue 79, Spring 2011
New discoveries about Roger Excoffon’s virtuoso typefaces for Fonderie Olive prompt a fresh look at the legacy of this dynamic designer and the foundry itself.
Recent blog posts about Sébastien Morlighem
Typonauts, start your quest here
3 April 2012
Book design, Graphic design, Information design, Typography
Review of Type Navigator: The Independent Foundries Handbook
The Web has deeply transformed the retail market of type, writes Sébastien Morlighem in Eye…