Richard Ardagh

Recent articles about Richard Ardagh

Archiving the archive

Issue 106, Summer 2024

Feature

When the Type Archive left its London premises, its vast collection was disbanded and its working Monotype hot-metal plant moved to the National Collections Centre. Two long-serving volunteers talk to Eye about the challenges they faced and how the history of the Archive is now being preserved. Photographs by Philip Sayer

Editorial Eye 106

Issue 106, Summer 2024

Opinion

It is in the nature of an Eye type special issue to be full of the shapes of letterforms and images of letters.

Word play

Issue 101, Summer 2021

Opinion

Sarah Boris’s letterpress collaboration with New North Press reflects the turbulence of 2020.

Blog posts by Richard Ardagh

Graphic design live #25

29 June 2026
Graphic design, Events and exhibitions, Motion graphics

David Hockney in London, Na Kim in Korea, India Street Lettering with the TDC (Pooja Saxena), ‘It’s Alive’ at the MoMA, Type Archived with Richard Ardagh in New York and ‘The 100 Best Posters’ in Berlin

Hockney in London; Na Kim in Korea; India Street Lettering; It’s Alive at the MoMA, Type Archived in New York; and ‘100 Best Posters’ in Berlin

Buy your tickets for Type Tuesday 10.03.26

6 March 2026
Type Tuesday, Typography, Type design

‘Punches to pixels’ at London’s SBF features Veronika Burian (TypeTogether), Richard Ardagh on Type Archived plus special guest Theo Hersey

So we urge everyone who can get to London easily to buy tickets for our first event of 2026.

Graphic design live #8

4 December 2022
Design history, Events and exhibitions, Motion graphics

W. E. B. Du Bois in New York, Piotr Szyhalski in Minneapolis, Dieter Roth in Iceland and motion graphics in Shenzhen

As we head towards the end of the year and into the holiday season, here’s a list of talks and exhibitions this December.

Join us for ‘Stories worth telling’

28 November 2022
Type Tuesday, Events and exhibitions

Buy your tickets for Type Tuesday on 6 December – with Jim Sutherland, Jahnavi Inniss and Richard Ardagh – and help raise money for St Bride

An evening with Jim Sutherland (Studio Sutherl&), Jahnavi Inniss and Richard Ardagh from New North Press ...

The printed howl

20 February 2021
Graphic design, Posters, Visual culture

Though locked down in London, this exhibition of letterpress protest posters has plenty of messages for the world
If the past few years have felt like one long trail of division, doom and…

Noted #88

14 September 2018
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, New media, Typography, Visual culture

Karlssonwilker, Ultramarine’s new 7", Forme 01, Good Trouble, Good Chemistry Brewing’s branding and Design For Today
Here are a few things that caught our attention in recent weeks. Karlssonwilker – the…