Review: Typography
Unravelling pages
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
On being well read
In this shifting digital world, countless websites, blogs and social networks provide instant information on…
Relax and you’ll be swept away
Where to start with a book like The Floating World: Ukiyo-e? There is a tendency…
The designer as programmer
‘Swiss’ is still a style. In the crudest terms, the style was, and is, Helvetica…
New languages and noisy texts
Increasingly sophisticated methods of communication mean that the appropriateness of conventional forms of reading and…
Is anybody out there reading?
One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone who encountered the first issue … was the finite nature of the enterprise.
Biography of a special case
Robin Kinross’s book about Anthony Froshaug has been anticipated in typographic circles for many years…
A manual for readable typography
Inclusive Design reminds me of Max Bill’s later work: clean, simple and a good piece of communication.
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.