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Nuffin’ like a Puffin

Phil Baines’s Penguin by Design: A Cover Story (2005) was, even at a glance, a…
Biography of a special case

Biography of a special case

Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…

Pieced together in Ambleside

I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’ work, probably an…

A manual for readable typography

Inclusive Design reminds me of Max Bill’s later work: clean, simple and a good piece of communication.

The cutting edge of fashion

The decision to show the work alphabetically renders it not so much an ‘exhibition in a book’, as a directory.

Last night I dreamt of a page set in Bitstream Futura

Book Typography is a brief, dense tour around the processes of typesetting texts for books.

Graphic novels for starters

Paul Gravett’s book is a beginner’s guide to one of the most rapidly growing regions of the book publishing world.

Handmade graphics refuse to go quietly

Despite huge progressions made by technologies for graphics and printing, the handmade graphic refuses to go away

Baffling recollections

The pieces overlap, bleed off the edges, and generally defy comprehension … future historians may have the skill to decode it, but I did not.

The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles

The cultured sensibility of Cipe Pineles

Say it Sea-pea Pin-ell-ess. Cipe Pineles is credited with being America’s first influential female art director, and many stories could be woven around her multifarious names alone.

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