Feature

Catherine Dixon

Catherine Dixon

‘Serifs are the new sans’

Golden age?

Deborah Littlejohn

The digital revolution still fuels a creative explosion in the way type is made and sold. Twelve practitioners take stock of the Zeitgeist
Quiet spirit of joy

Quiet spirit of joy

Alan Powers

By championing pattern-making, art and ephemera, the Curwen Press brought a new ‘Comfy Modernism’ to commercial printing

Typeface/interface

Jan Middendorp

Andrea Tinnes makes type families — functional or ornamental — that quickly acquire a life of their own

The United Nations of Type

John L. Walters

Look beyond the confines of the Latin alphabet, urges Johannes Bergerhausen of Decodeunicode

Space and rhythm

Jan Middendorp

Type designer Cyrus Highsmith learnt the craft through both study and apprenticeship. By Jan Middendorp

Back to basics in Basel

Rupert Bassett

Basel School of Design's First Summer Program was a life-changing experience

Remembrance of things past

Jessica Jenkins

The renovation of Paris’ oldest métro line reveals traces of a century of billboard advertising

Ugly-beautiful [extract]

Adrian Shaughnessy

The work of one of France’s most original graphic voices bristles with contradictions