Feature
Land of Logos
For Britain’s public institutions, corporate image-building plays a central role in the marketing mix
Type fashion fusion
A stylist, a photographer and a typographer celebrate the look and feel of exceptional clothes
Techno-orientalism, digital fetishism
A recent festival of new film-making showed what happens to creativity when designer/directors \'orientalise\' their digital tools
Entranced by motion, seduced by stillness
New media is undergoing the kind of definition print went through centuries ago. A meditation on the status of moving and static typography
Public works
For the renovations at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Pierre Bernard devised a temporary system of signs and type to be hoisted high and crossed out.
From notebook to hyperbook
In the Wiener Ausgabe, Michael Nedo translated Wittgenstein’s wide-ranging and intertwined philosophical remarks into typographic form
The impossibility of neutrality
Seclusion is not an option in a global culture where information, money and images move mountains and ignore boundaries.
Dismantling the Basel principle
The freewheeling global agenda of Müller+Hess both destroys and revives the typographic traditions of their home town.
E pluribus unum
An inquiry into myriad associations originating from this most abundantly occurring symbol in our writing: that fifth sign of our Roman ABC.
Typographica
Herbert Spencer’s magazine, a fusion of Modernism and eclecticism, was one of the most remarkable journals to emerge from British cultural publishing