Autumn 2019

Everyday people

Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter’s Apfel, A Practice for Everyday Life, brings design into the art world, and makes design an art

Since forming in 2003, A Practice for Everyday Life (Apfel) – co-founded by Emma Thomas and Kirsty Carter – has developed a brand of graphic design that resists classification. Minimalist yet expressive, resolute yet flexible, their designs are a case study in considered conceptualism.

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Custom typefaces designed by Apfel. Monumental is a display typeface designed for the exhibition ‘David Adjaye: Making Memory’ at London’s Design Museum in 2019.
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Photo by Elisabeth Scheder-Bieschin.

Neon sign, set in Apfel’s bespoke Linderama typeface, for the ‘Linder: Femme / Objet’ exhibition in Paris, 2013.

Alex J. Todd design historian and writer, London

Read the full version in Eye no. 99 vol. 25, 2019

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