Review
From the typographic to the visual
This book’s title is a librarian’s nightmare. It differs by only three letters from that of…
Down-to-earth Son Of A Windmill-builder
‘Typo-photo’ was a term coined by Moholy-Nagy in 1925 to designate the striking montage of…
The wrong browsers
It gives me no pleasure to say that this is a truly dreadful book that…
The birth of Swiss graphic design
It was in an attempt to clarify the meaning of language as arising from its use…
Fruitful lines of graphic type analysis
In late 2002, a group of subscribers to the ATypI mailing list conspired to discuss…
Political imagery re-examined
One challenge of design and art historians today is how to analyse familiar material, like…
Peak practice: beautiful Swiss books
As I write these words in my Zurich hotel room, fireworks are exploding outside to…
The eye of the curator
To a young, typographically inclined Dutchman growing up in the 1960s and 1970s, British graphic…
A new understanding of spaces
There are many good reasons why the names of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) and Francesco Griffo (1450-1518)…
When in Rome: eat, drink and talk type
Since January 2001, ATypI’s worldwide membership has had the advantage of its own email list to…