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Pleasure in the process
Paul McNeil and Hamish Muir are graphic designers who construct typefaces through mathematics, systems and experimentation, pushing hard at the boundaries of alphabetic form
Expressive geometry
Madeleine Morley, Gerald Cinamon, John L. Walters
Kabel, Rudolf Koch’s eccentric, geometric 1920s typeface, has been revived as a 21st century type family by Marc Schütz. By Madeleine Morley, with extracts from Gerald Cinamon’s book about Koch
Strategy is never enough
In these information-saturated, cash-strapped times, David Pye’s concept of ‘workmanship’ has much to teach us
From punch cutters to number crunchers
In the summer of 1983, a Stanford seminar became a milestone in the long transition from craft to code
Brand in the hand
In Melbourne, more than a century ago, a ‘printer’s fist’ inadvertently became one of the earliest corporate identities
Advice from a mentor you may never meet
The ethos behind the Hall of Femmes series is to pass down stories, advice and experiences to a new generation of female art directors and designers
Obsessive meditations
Andrew Robertson, Richard Krzyzak
The photography of Robin Broadbent takes still life photography to minimalist extremes
Colour is the new black
For the past decade or so, Mark van Wageningen has been investigating the possibilities of adding colour to the conventional black-and-white universe of digital type design, resulting in work that is both thrilling and evocative
The programmed designer
Industry-standard tools – Apple computers, Adobe software – have created astonishing new possibilities for graphic designers. But is this liberation, or a new kind of imprisonment?
Crayon game
The unexpected craze for adult colouring books has created a bonanza for publishers. Can they keep it going?