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Recent articles about F. H. K. Henrion

Rub-down revolutionIssue 86, Autumn 2013
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	A generation before home computers, Letraset’s dry transfer lettering made desktop typography possible – and gave a small group of type designers new insights into letterform construction through the art of stencil-cutting            
A tradition with breaksIssue 86, Autumn 2013
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	Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.            
The accessible eliteIssue 86, Autumn 2013
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                                            Linda Kwon reports on a design conference that aims to fight the ‘velvet rope syndrome’            
Big book of booksIssue 73, Autumn 2009
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                                                Bibliographic is a book about books. British designer Jason Godfrey has selected 100 books about…                        
Getting better all the time…Issue 69, Autumn 2008
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	Self-styled ‘graphic entertainer’ Alan Aldridge shot to fame in the mid-1960s with his work for The Sunday Times magazine, Penguin Books, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and The Who. Aldridge regards The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (see Eye no. 57 vol. 15) as an ‘illustration of the 1960s’, and you could say the same for much of his new book The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes (Thames &amp; Hudson, £24.95), published to coincide with the Design Museum show of the same name. In this extract, Aldridge recounts his experiences after being fired from a job as a junior finished artist at Charlotte Studios – ‘supply your own steel rule and X-Acto knife’ – in a London that was just about to Swing.            
Cheap Jack FlashIssue 60, Summer 2006
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                                            Fluorescent inks – costly, dramatic, even ‘vulgar’ – provided 1950s designers with a fresh challenge            

Recent blog posts about F. H. K. Henrion

AK and A23D on press

18 September 2014
Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Technology, Typography

Two 21st-century letterpress projects breathe new life into this arcane, antiquated but much-loved method of mark-making

The LDF’s opening graphic weekend featured plenty of stimulating events and fascinating displays, with workshops…

Offset 2014: day three

22 April 2014
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration

Aisling Farinella, Adrian Shaughnessy, I Love Dust, Jon Burgerman, Richard Turley, Marian Bantjes, Jeff Greenspan and Chris Judge. Pam Bowman concludes her coverage of the Dublin Offset conference

The third and final day of the Offset conference began with Dublin-based stylist Aisling Farinella…