Edward Wright

Recent articles about Edward Wright

A tradition with breaks

Issue 86, Autumn 2013

Feature

Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.

Letters in the city

Issue 10, Autumn 1993

Feature

Eye reassesses the legacy of Edward Wright: designer, teacher, artist and “culture-carrier”

Blog posts by Edward Wright

Sun-cheese wheel-ode

10 December 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Dom Sylvester Houédard’s 1968 concrete poetry tribute to fellow poet Ken Cox is a double spiral of hand-set type, mysteriously linked by the sport of cheese rolling. Fraser Muggeridge explains.
The letterpress printed concrete poem designed by Dom Sylvester Houédard first caught my interest because…

British designers, ca. 1963

17 September 2009
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Photography, Typography

The spread everyone’s been asking about, from Typographica
OK, here’s a better view of that famous feature: photographs of British designers from Typographica…