Feature: Typography
Originality and inspiration
It may be unrealistic to expect that every new typeface will be unique and original, but giving up this ambition leads to stagnation
States of independence
The fragmentation of the type market has led to new ways of examining, acquiring and enjoying typefaces … and some confusion
The business of type design
The challenges of earning a living from type design, with honest, thoughtful responses from foundries worldwide
Last man casting
Rainer Gerstenberg is one of the few people in the world to cast foundry type, keeping alive a craft that was developed more than half a millennium ago
Tales from the West Coast
With its origins in ‘live journalism’ shows, The California Sunday Magazine achieves its narrative power through a cinematic approach to photography and type
This woman’s work
Kate Hepburn’s design career, embracing pioneering magazines such as Spare Rib and Vole as well as comedy and rock’n’roll, is rooted in rigorous typography
Lovable loser
A daring approach to sports journalism earned the short-lived Jock magazine a place in design history
Two-colour haikus
Banks & Miles art directed Which? magazine, the Consumers’ Association’s flagship title and its covers. John Miles talks to Paul Harpin
Double vision
Fast-paced, emotional, competitive, surprising – Germany’s ZEITmagazin is a print title for the digital age
Liberté, égalité, typography
Serge Ricco, creative director of l’Obs, has shown this word-driven, left-wing French weekly the power of expressive type and images