Feature
Beyond Blackletter
The lettering on the covers of Germany’s most popular film magazine expressed plot and tone with exuberant, readable forms.
Reputations: Paula Scher
‘I am fascinated by organisations and the way people behave in power structures.’
Football, politics and the mafia
The walls of Naples are a canvas for the crimes, passions and contradictions of the city’s inhabitants
Before and after East met West
Much of a city’s history is written in its street signs. Berlin-born Verena Gerlach has turned their shapes and stories into typefaces
Yellow Submarine models
Hard plastic models of Yellow Submarine figures, collected and appreciated by Paul West
Electrifying the alphabet
At the dawn of the computer age, new functions ushered in new forms for type design
Abandoned gloves
Collected by Ivan Chermayeff, Chermayeff & Geismar Inc., New York.
SUMPTUOUS RUINS
Robert Polidori’s deceptively picturesque images remind us of the futility of human ambition
‘No muscles, no tattoos’
Each of Jop van Bennekom’s eccentric magazines perches precariously at its niche’s edge