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Counter intuition

Counter intuition

Cyrus Highsmith

A short type design course will never turn you into a type designer. But it may make you a better typographer
Beyond Latin

Beyond Latin

Gerry Leonidas, John Hudson, Neelakash Kshetrimayum, Kamal Mansour, Pascal Zoghbi, Eye critics

As digital tools liberate type design from arcane limitations, more people become free to communicate using their own alphabets and languages. Gerry Leonidas chairs a panel of designers discussing the global state of ‘non-Latin’ type
James Mosley: A life in objects

James Mosley: A life in objects

Paul Barnes

Through his ideas, collecting and dogged research, the former St Bride librarian has shown that printing history can be both lively and opinionated. The world of typography owes him a great debt
Four seasons

Four seasons

Sarah Snaith

Micha Weidmann’s art direction for a cookbook by London chef Ollie Dabbous, with photographs by Joakim Blockstrom
Moscow by type

Moscow by type

Kat Phan

For the underground railway of Russia’s capital, wayfinding experts City ID commissioned A2-Type to make the Metro’s first typeface and pictogram system
Writing the city

Writing the city

Sam Roberts, Lara Cécile Krüper

Signwriter Pete Hardwicke has left his mark on a significant area of London
Reputations: Fred Smeijers

Reputations: Fred Smeijers

Mark Thomson

‘My father was a mechanic. Respect – for tools and for the material with which you work – is one thing I got from him. When the chisel is not sharp enough to do a certain job, even if it is just one cut, do not think you can get away with it. Sharpen the chisel properly and only then use it for what you wanted to do.’
Crowd-sourced wisdom?

Crowd-sourced wisdom?

Tom Harrad

As Hershey and Airbnb have discovered, the internet has spawned a vast, powerful audience of opinionated design critics. If resistance is futile, how can designers adapt?
The first couple of American billboards

The first couple of American billboards

Jim Northover

Otis and Dorothy Shepard, the ‘Scott and Zelda’ of mid-century advertising graphics, were neglected when design history was written. A new book brings their colourful legacy into vivid focus

We made this: Dorothy and Otis

John L. Walters

In 2009, Norman Hathaway and Dan Nadel arrived at an archive in Arizona to rediscover a legacy of graphic design left by Dorothy and Otis Shepard.
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