Feature
Design’s wayward cousins
Humble and often vulgar, chapbooks offer an illuminating window into the medieval world.
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
Russian revolution
Polly Corrigan meets the founder of a new graphic design school in Moscow.
Stanley Morison: Changing the Times
In 1929 Monotype’s typographical adviser, Stanley Morison, published an article critical of the design of The Times. He was invited to submit ideas, and this led to a redesign of the paper in 1932, for which he developed Times New Roman. Here he recounts the process.
Beatrice Warde: Manners and type
Sara De Bondt introduces a transcript of a rediscovered 1959 interview with Warde.
Robin Nicholas
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
‘I don’t see myself as a typeface designer. Hermann Zapf is a typeface designer. What I have done is to develop typefaces: pulling component parts of various typefaces that seem to work well and amalgamate those into a new design.’
Deep in the Monotype archive
A wide selection of Monotype’s drawings, artworks, publications and vintage photographs spread across a 40-page feature.
Dan Rhatigan: All about workflow
John L. Walters, Simon Esterson
Monotype’s UK type director talks about the way the company’s 125-year history informs its approach to twenty-first century challenges.
Show and tell
From great apes and pop fans to real children’s spaces, James Mollison’s photographs invite the viewer to look beyond face values.