Blog: Typography

20 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Deep in the archives: Caslon Rounded Sans Serif, 1836
There are few new ideas in type design. Look back far enough, and there is…

19 June 2011

Andmoreagain

Andmoreagain

john l. walters, simon esterson

Web typography comes of age at Brighton’s Ampersand conference
Is the humble ampersand a symbol for our additive times? During the morning sessions for…

16 June 2011

Letter to Jane

Letter to Jane

alan baines

Graphic Design course director Alan Baines writes to the CSM bosses.
The student protests at University of the Arts, Central Saint Martins (CSM) have highlighted problems…

13 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability #2: talking about Rayuela by Alejandro Lo Celso
Rayuela (‘Hopscotch’) is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar in which the reader is…

9 June 2011

Bliss in that evening to be alive

Bliss in that evening to be alive

lucienne roberts, rebecca wright

The founders of GraphicDesign& describe their inaugural event.
It’s strange that graphic designers rarely seem to talk about one of the most interesting…

8 June 2011

Specimaniac

Specimaniac

joe newton

In praise of type specimens, old and new, with Veer’s Joe Newton
‘The business of ... lettering has now, under the spur of commercial competition, got altogether…

7 June 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Lust and likeability: an informal jury puts type into words: #1 Odile
Elegant, chunky, laugh-out-loud, nervy, bookish, perfumed … our informal jury puts type into words with…

6 June 2011

Gill sans Eric

Gill sans Eric

alexander ecob

Brighton show will put MacDonald ‘Max’ Gill back on the map.
One could be forgiven for not knowing that Eric Gill had a brother. MacDonald ‘Max’…

4 June 2011

Critique commentary

Critique commentary

rick poynor

Rick Poynor selects DVD covers from the Criterion Collection’s film list.
In ‘Commitment to content’, my latest Web-only Critique, I have written about the design of…

2 June 2011

Dot dot rock

Dot dot rock

zoë street howe

Zoë Street Howe on the black art of ‘heavy metal umlauts’
‘Metal umlauts’ echo the ‘devil horn’ rock salute, carry a menacing whiff of Gothic mystery…
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