Feature: Typography
Designing with urgency
From politics to culture to business, Dutch studio Thonik strikes a balance between adventurous concepts and pragmatic resolutions
Art and ambiguity
The identity for Venice Biennale Arte 2019, designed by Melanie Mues, distorts type across a colourful three-dimensional grid
News cycle
Italian designer Francesco Franchi brings magazine finesse to the world of daily newspapers
Pay it forward
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and politics
New bottle old wine
Drawing on the punches, matrices, specimens and smoke proofs at St Bride Library, Commercial Classics give nineteenth-century typefaces a new lease of life. By John L. Walters
The enigma of Thérèse Moll
This young designer is credited with introducing Swiss typography to MIT
Return to the square
A chance discovery by some builders led to the adaptation and expansion of a 1930s alphabet by one of Switzerland’s foremost designers
Strategy of excess
Like a human algorithm, Hansje van Halem explores a huge number of variables until she finds the right ‘recipe’ for each project
Bram de Does: the king of (functional) swing
An insistence that technology should match design spurred typographer Bram de Does to create two of the twentieth century’s most beautiful types