Feature: Typography
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
Ten projects by Jim Sutherland
A graphic designer downsizes to spend more time thinking, studying and designing without commercial studio pressures. What could possibly go right? By Simon Esterson. Portrait by Philip Sayer [EXTRACT]
Anette Lenz: Poetic rhetoric in the public realm
Over nearly three decades, Anette Lenz has made work that transcends trends and technology. Profile by Jan Middendorp [EXTRACT]
Jacqueline Casey. Science and design
Jacqueline Casey was instrumental in developing what became known as the MIT Style. By Elizabeth Resnick [EXTRACT]
Eye’s early years
Founding editor Rick Poynor recalls the aims and ideas behind the launch of an independent design magazine [EXTRACT]
Space Type Generator
Kiel Mutschelknaus’s constantly evolving Space Type Generator has the power to hypnotise
Evi O. Studio: Feast between the lines
This Sydney-based studio brings high-energy illustration and lettering to editorial design for food [EXTRACT]
Letterform Archive: Objects of Inspiration
Letterform Archive is feeding the post-digital generation’s passion for physical artefacts
Chloe Scheffe: Rethinking editorial design
Brooklyn-based Chloe Scheffe designs books by groundbreaking thinkers and tackles magazines with a similarly radical approach
Dafi Kühne: By his own hand
Swiss designer Dafi Kühne works wholly in traditional letterpress techniques with entirely contemporary results