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Different strokes
Sensitive details and technological ingenuity make Alejandro Paul’s script typeface designs both highly regarded and hugely popular
Tool-shop for a counterculture
Ken Garland hails the ultimate buying guide for the anti-capitalist revolution
Better than the real thing?
Facsimiles give scholars and students the chance to enjoy, understand and literally get to grips with the physical nature of printed design classics.
Going the distance
Roundel’s identity for Railfreight in the late 1980s unified a multi-faceted business with a strong identity that boosted morale.
Physical display
How lettering is made for public display: hand-cutting in wood and stone, & routing in metal and plastic
Back with a flourish
A taste for ornamentation and 1970s kitsch has led to a revival in the swash, the ‘tea cosy’ of typography
Crystal garden
Crepuscular and cool, the Nobel Field is a ‘living instrument’, played by its visitors