Feature: Typography
Memory of books
An elaborate, tactile catalogue – and a digital typeface – pay tribute to a golden age of Spanish typography.
Set the letters free
Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne turned discarded packaging type into ‘stammering concrete poetry’
Willem Sandberg: Warm printing
The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and experimental typography
Reputations: George Lois
‘You can’t research a big idea. The only ideas that truly research well are mediocre ideas. In research, great ideas are always suspect.’
Malcolm, Peter … and Keith
The British New Wave was born at a boys’ school near Manchester
Art and art direction (text in full)
imply two separate worlds, yet artists who use text employ the techniques of graphic design. And so for the pharmaceutical type pastiches in \'The Last Supper\', a series of screenprints, Damien Hirst employed designer Jon Barnbrook.
Marked by time
Two catalogues reveal much about stencil-making in Germany and the US in the mid-twentieth century, while offering clues to the industry's future in the decades following their publication.
Las Vegas tangle
A junkyard is home to the stylish chaos and discarded carcasses of a golden age of signage
Penguin crime
Romek Marber’s 1960s paperback identity is a landmark of independent British design
Reputations: Jean Widmer
‘Signage reflects both the complexity of space and the way a place is organised. And it is very satisfying’