Opinion
Spare a thought for the reader’s overworked eye muscles when designing text pages
Chip Kidd, designer and now novelist, is as skilled at crafting his own image as he is at creating other…
Features
How lettering is made for public display: hand-cutting in wood and stone, & routing in metal and plastic…
A2’s work is based on conceptual rigour, a feel for print process and a unique flair for bespoke…
Mark Andresen is a graphic one-man-band, with deep roots in the VouDou of pre-Katrina New Orleans
Maths, computers and the internet are bringing new life, form and purpose to a traditional paper art
Faced by the eccentricities of a new show, Web legend Yugo Nakamura opts, brilliantly, to flaunt its flaws…
Elegant, chunky, laugh-out-loud, nervy, bookish, perfumed . . . our informal jury puts type into words
Whether as labelling, wayfinding or mere decoration, letters bring function and form to the built…
Robert Polidori’s deceptively picturesque images remind us of the futility of human ambition