David Ellis

Recent articles about David Ellis

Legible in public space

Issue 67, Spring 2008

Feature

Whether as labelling, wayfinding or mere decoration, letters bring function and form to the built environment. By John D. Berry

Type as entertainment

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

Why Not Associates are the wild boys of the British typographic scene … How do they get away with it?

Phil Baines and Typography Now

Issue 71, Spring 2009

Opinion

A letter from Rick Poynor

Blog posts by David Ellis

Eye 110 is here

9 June 2026
Graphic design, Posters, Typography

Hot off the press, out of the box, the latest issue of Eye is on its way to readers worldwide

The new edition of Eye is out – number 110, volume 28, 2026.

Tokyo type

11 April 2026
Awards madness, Graphic design, Typography, Type design

The Tokyo TDC celebrates this year’s winners with an exhibition at Ginza Graphic Gallery (ggg) in Tokyo
The Tokyo TDC is an annual international graphic design competition focused upon visual expression of…

Of monumental proportions

30 May 2014
Graphic design, Reviews, Typography, Visual culture

Lettering Large is a graphic designer’s coffee table book, easily read in one sitting but…

Gag pile

14 October 2011
Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Gordon Young’s Blackpool Comedy Carpet with Why Not Associates. By Alex Ecob

The Comedy Carpet is a celebration of comedy on a vast scale, hewn in concrete and granite across Blackpool’s seafront.

Just Add Stock winner, advertising

6 November 2009
Awards madness, Photography, Posters

Why Not Associates’ stark poster for The End of the Line
It was a tough call, but the Just Add Stock award for Printed advertising went…