Review
How the alphabet became
The current obsession with font design has stimulated the field like nothing else in recent…
We’ll always have Paris
Expectations for the 66th annual ATypI conference were very high … the whole event was truly an energetic, noisy, and heartfelt affair.
The cryptic legacy of Paulo de Cantos
Paulo de Cantos was a teacher and an editor. Between times he created textbooks with…
Call and response
This hardback book is the catalogue for the 2022-2023 Letterform Archive exhibition of the same name…
Mutant letters trickle down
An iron-on flock typeface, primarily available to buy from a few shops in New York between…
Banquet for a dude
The late Milton Glaser occupies a unique position at the pinnacle of Anglo-American graphic design. While…
The film poster as freeze-frame
Moving Pictures Painted: 200 Posters from the Golden Age of Egyptian Cinema (CentreCentre, £30) lifts the…
Ecological literacy
The result of a decade spent ‘formulating a stronger ecological theory for design’, Joanna Boehnert’s…
Going off brand
Jason Grant and Oliver Vodeb’s uncompromising handbook of theory and action ends slyly with a…
Graphic friction
This new book oozes friction. It has been produced to be enjoyed as a visual experience beyond a mere taxonomy of work.