Feature: Typography
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design…
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.
Robin Nicholas
‘I don’t see myself as a typeface designer. Hermann Zapf is a typeface designer. What I have done is to…
Machine and man
Neil Winter demonstrates the art and science of the Monotype as he prepares galleys of hot metal type at…
They work with words: 3
As an exercise in cross-Channel translation, OK-RM has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.…
They work with words: 2
Modern Toss has devised a typographic spread about the perils and pleasures of punctuation – exclusively…
They work with words: 1
Fraser Muggeridge has devised a typographic spread exclusively for Eye.
Street life
Bremen’s street magazine Die Zeitschrift der Strasse is a social project that benefits its student…
Free for all
In designing the Ubuntu type family, Dalton Maag had to produce faces for print and screen in thirteen…
