Why Not Associates

Recent articles about Why Not Associates

Nameless thing

Issue 57, Autumn 2005

Feature

Tokyo’s TDC rewards work that transcends means, intention, content, context – and just ‘is’

Type as entertainment

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

Why Not Associates are the wild boys of the British typographic scene … How do they get away with it?

Phil Baines and Typography Now

Issue 71, Spring 2009

Opinion

A letter from Rick Poynor

I don’t use a Mac but I know a man who can

Issue 13, Summer 1994

Opinion

British design has split down the middle. Should its priority be art or analysis, and is the computer a new ‘language’ or simply a tool? By Michael Horsham

Recent blog posts about Why Not Associates

Resorting to type

16 April 2020
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Typography

In the first of a new series of Eye blog posts, Justin Burns explores the graphic language of the British seaside
Walk along the promenade and we are met with the sounds, smells and signs that…

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…

Offset Sheffield 2016: day one

6 November 2016
Book design, Brand madness, Design education, Graphic design, Illustration, Reviews, Visual culture

Offset’s first Sheffield conference bought together artists and designers for two days of engaging presentations and lively panel discussions
Last month, a host of speakers from across the design industry came to present their…

Books received #18

11 April 2016
Book design, Graphic design, Photography, Visual culture

A Smile in the Mind, London A to Z, Jean Tinguely, Bad Bonn Song Book and Eating With The Eyes
Here are a few books that caught our attention in recent weeks … all reviewed…

Offset 2015: day three

23 March 2015
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Typography, Visual culture

Andrew Rae, Matthew Thompson, Sue Murphy, Matt Willey, Andy Altmann and Cartoon Saloon. Anna Kealey concludes her coverage of the Dublin Offset conference
The closing day of Offset’s presentations were full of colour and comedy, writes Anna Kealey…

Noted #64

28 November 2014
Graphic design, Illustration, Magazines, Photography, Type Tuesday

Off Life, Type Tuesday, Aglu photobooks, Amore E Piombo and Works That Work
Here are a few things that caught our attention in recent weeks. Issue no. 1…

Of monumental proportions

30 May 2014
Graphic design, Reviews, Typography, Visual culture

Lettering Large is a graphic designer’s coffee table book, easily read in one sitting but…

Talking about the A-Word

13 May 2013

John O’Reilly reports from day one of the inaugural Point Conference in London, where the designated theme was ‘authenticity’.
There was a little thought-bubble that imagined Erik Spiekermann carving out his lecture, live, on…