Feature: Design history
Where the wild type is
Working across record covers, logos, merchandise and stage design, Amaya Segura brings innovative typography to contemporary R&B, hip-hop and beyond. Interview by Holly Catford [EXTRACT]
Learning from Coney Island: Michael Doret and American lettering
When Norman Hathaway was asked to edit and design Michael Doret’s monograph, it was a chance to fill in some gaps in the history of illustrative lettering [EXTRACT]
Mark Holt: Games, set and dispatch
The title page credit for Munich ’72: The Visual Output of Otl Aicher’s Dept XI reads ‘Researched, written, edited, designed and published by Mark Holt.’ Interview by John L. Walters
My friend David King
The book David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is a comprehensive account of the work of a unique figure in graphic design history. Here Richard Hollis, witness to King’s development as designer, artist, collector and pioneering author-designer of dazzling books of social and political history, recalls his friend and fellow designer. By Richard Hollis
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick
Eye’s early years
Founding editor Rick Poynor recalls the aims and ideas behind the launch of an independent design magazine
Letterform Archive: Objects of Inspiration
Letterform Archive is feeding the post-digital generation’s passion for physical artefacts
Elaine Ramos: The book designer
‘We overdose on communication, but “beautiful” design circulates only between the culturally literate.’
They made Canada
Working against the clock, with virtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a design documentary that shows how European immigrants created Canada’s visual identity
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and politics