Herbert Spencer

Recent articles about Herbert Spencer

This is a specimen

Issue 47, Spring 2003

Feature

Printers once promoted themselves through their knowledge of type

Willem Sandberg: Warm printing

Issue 25, Summer 1997

Feature

The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography

Reputations: Peter Saville

Issue 17, Summer 1995

Feature

‘This is a post-design era. It’s deliberately going against all those things that were canonised in the 1980s and are now exhausted.’ Interview by Rick Poynor

Herbert Spencer: 1924-2002

Issue 44, Summer 2002

Feature

Ken Garland recalls the late British designer and editor who died earlier this year

Surface wreckage

Issue 34, Winter 1999

Feature

Three books showing accidental collages of torn posters an other random marks revive interest in a style of image-making drawn from the city streets

Blog posts by Herbert Spencer

James Mosley 1935-2025

29 August 2025
Design history, Typography

Catherine Dixon pays tribute to printing librarian, teacher and scholar James Mosley

Mosley was was rarely ‘centre stage’, yet his influence was significant … a popular speaker who wrote seminal texts on typographic history.

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…

Birth of the Modern

11 September 2009
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Reviews, Typography

Kemistry Gallery pays tribute to Herbert Spencer’s Typographica
What unites 1960s Modernist graphic designers, the editors of Wallpaper* magazine and Hoxton bloggers? Last…