Blog: Typography

3 May 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Visions of Joanna: Mark Thomson on Eric Gill’s Essay on Typography
It took me a while to find this book, writes Mark Thomson in Eye 62…

26 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Electrifying the alphabet. Wim Crouwel’s experiments in letterforms
The rapid advances in data-processing that revolutionised office work from the mid-1960s onwards – and…

19 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Antique Olive
Roger Excoffon’s Antique Olive (1962-66) is a perfect example of a typeface that has suffered…

14 April 2011

Mapping it up

Mapping it up

alexander ecob

Embrace the inner cartographer of artists and graphic designers
I’ve yet to meet a designer who doesn’t harbour a fondness for maps, writes Alexander…

12 April 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday

Matthew Carter explains how he came to design his first wood type
The positive / negative aspect of type is always in a type designer’s mind, writes…

4 April 2011

Exquisite discourse

Exquisite discourse

hamish thompson

Poet meets graphic artist meets type designer, and the consequence is …
A graphic artist and a typeface designer, working blind to each other, design two-word typographic…

30 March 2011

Bravo, Charlie

Bravo, Charlie

alexander ecob

Playing with phonetic typography at the Kemistry gallery
Hot on the heels of their intriguing exhibition of Saul Bass posters, the Kemistry gallery…

29 March 2011

Posters on sticks

Posters on sticks

sally jeffery

A vast river of banner-bearing humanity with something to say
Here is a postscript to Eye’s poster debate, writes Sally Jeffery (see ‘Help! Poster initiatives…

22 March 2011

Out of office

Out of office

katie parry

A few words about Birmingham’s Type Writing Symposium
It’s not often I take time out of the studio to do some proper thinking…

20 March 2011

Fixed compass

Fixed compass

the history department

David Gentleman talks about his identity design for British Steel
The most recent issue of Eye includes a Reputations interview with David Gentleman, whose career…
 
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