Feature: Typography
Type specific
TDC hails the wider world of empathetic wine labels, typographic IDs and retro stationery
Painted thrills and spills
Fred Fowle was the UK’s foremost fairground artist. His go-faster graphics and futuristic lettering live on – in museums and working steam fairs
A tradition with breaks
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.
Quiet man of letters
Alan Bartram brought a perceptive eye to alphabetic detail in public spaces. Catherine Dixon pays tribute to the co-author of An Atlas of Typeforms
Go with the data flow
Dutch studio Lust mixes digital space with physical reality, playing fast and loose with the conventions of interaction design.
Modernism and monograms
Both artisan and art director, Hermann Eidenbenz was a subtle master of Swiss design.
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design of The Times. He was invited to submit ideas, and this led to a redesign of the paper in 1932, for which he developed Times New Roman. Here he recounts the process.
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.