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Postmodern jam session

Issue 83, Summer 2012

Feature

Jan Middendorp recalls Fuse, the type ‘magazine’ that opened up (and put the lid on) a transient era of adventurous type design from small digital foundries

Fuse's envelope comes unstuck

Issue 16, Spring 1995

Review

The suffix ’94 seems to suggest that the organisers of the Fuse conference expect to…

Deep in the archives

Issue 75, Spring 2010

Feature

Contemporary type designers Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes select some historical type specimens that excite and intrigue them.

Digital type decade

Issue 40, Summer 2001

Feature

The sound and fury of ‘radical’ typeface design associated with the early days of PostScript have quietened into a purposeful, prolific hum. There’s a new order of craft and and invention, driven by corporate culture, nostalgia and the demands of the screen.

The digital wave

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross

Typography’s new priests

Issue 1, Autumn 1990

Review

‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…

Recent blog posts about Just van Rossum

Work in progress in Rotterdam

20 September 2019
Book design, Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Typography

AGI’s international president Dean Poole (New Zealand) talks about the ambitions of ‘In Progress’, this year’s AGI Open, 24 September 2019
Established in 2010 by the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) – a network of graphic designers…

Out of the Fog and into the Fab

9 April 2009
Graphic design, Technology, Typography

Robothon 2009’s hi-tech type tools give automation to the superfamilies
Only a few decades ago, a conference about new developments in typographic technology would have…