Edward Johnston

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London Letters

Issue 91, Spring 2016

Feature

Philip Sayer photographs lettering on the streets of London in this alphabetical compendium

Every word in its place

Issue 84, Autumn 2012

Review

Reading Richard Hollis’s writings, one can’t help wondering how the esteemed graphic designer, writer and…

Blog posts by Edward Johnston

James Mosley 1935-2025

29 August 2025
Design history, Typography

Catherine Dixon pays tribute to printing librarian, teacher and scholar James Mosley

Mosley was was rarely ‘centre stage’, yet his influence was significant … a popular speaker who wrote seminal texts on typographic history.

From stone to screen

27 September 2019
Book design, Design education, Design history, Typography, Visual culture

Curator Mark Noad explains the thinking behind ‘Rock Paper Pixel’, a new exhibition at the Lettering Arts Centre in Snape
Letter Exchange is an organisation for professionals in the lettering arts – calligraphy, letter cutting…

Books received #27 (type books)

26 June 2017
Book design, Design history, Graphic design, Posters, Typography

Custom Lettering of the 20s and 30s, Word Disco, Type is Beautiful, Type Tells Tales and Johnston & Gill: Very British Types
Here are a few typographically oriented books that caught our attention in recent months. Type…

Friendships and glue

30 May 2017
Design history, Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture

A book of scrapbook pages gives new insights into the world of illustrator Edward Bawden
Designer-illustrator Edward Bawden is remembered for a prolific career that embraced posters, book covers, illustrations…

Dear Mr Johnston

4 April 2017
Design history, Type Tuesday, Typography, Visual culture

A letter from Eiichi Kono to the designer of Johnston Sans, the famous London Underground typeface
Dear Mr Edward Johnston May I take the liberty of introducing myself so that I…

Books received #21 (Type books)

16 August 2016
Book design, Graphic design, Type Tuesday, Typography

Rian Hughes, Edward Johnston, Script Fonts, a lexicon of terms and the Triumph of Typography
Here are a few typographically themed books worth knowing about … each reviewed in no…

Village people

20 September 2014
Design history, Graphic design, Typography

Ditchling’s elegantly revamped museum places Eric Gill in the everyday context of extraordinary craftspeople
The small Sussex village of Ditchling, near the South Coast of England, was in 190…

Type traces in Granary Square

5 April 2014
Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Reviews, Typography

‘Lettering: Objects, Examples, Practice’ is the first exhibition of its kind at Central Saint Martins’ Kings’s Cross premises
The ‘Lettering: Objects, Examples, Practice’ exhibition, at Central Saint Martins’ Lethaby Gallery, displays traces of…

Noted #58

14 February 2014
Graphic design, Illustration, Visual culture

Postcards from the Letterform Archive; Ronan Guillou’s ‘This is Not a Map’ of Las Vegas; No Fixed Format: The Sochi Project; Serco Illustration Prize; Marian Bantjes’ Valentine
Here are a few links to sites, exhibitions and objects that grabbed our attention over…