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Paper offerings for the dead
Paper replicas of consumer objects are burnt as offerings to the dead at Ching Ming
Buy this book
Jürgen Holstein’s volume of rare Weimar-era jackets and covers is an extraordinary labour of love
Sense of place
Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history
Lost worlds
Vernacular photography. Innocence regained? Or just another kind of fiction?
Letter rich Lisbon
Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape
If the image of the text … has more value than its content …
With visual culture triumphant and content marginalised, how can typography be defined?
Reading the news
In an-depth pictorial essay Phil Baines examines the ways major UK newspapers, tabloid and broadsheet, presented the events of September 11
Visual systems of life and death
In this appendix to ‘The pandemic that launched a thousand visualisations’, Paul Kahn outlines more of the dynamic visual systems that help our understanding of Covid-19
Face lift: new cuts at The Times
When technological developments at The Times demanded a change in the newspaper’s typography, a brand new typeface was commissioned, prompting a new analysis of the font’s long and complex history