Barrie Tullett

Recent articles by Barrie Tullett

Niche within a niche

Issue 109, Winter 2026

Review

Impact Type: Manufacturing Type for Typewriters in Switzerland, 1941-1997 (Triest Verlag, €29) is beautiful. Edited…

Recent blog posts about Barrie Tullett

Best in class

16 June 2023
Awards madness, Book design, Design education, Graphic design, Typography

The ISTD’s Student Assessment Scheme crosses borders through typographic excellence. Barrie Tullett, who was on the jury, reports

The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) began in 1928 …

Bubbles black as ink

10 April 2017
Design education, Illustration, Typography, Visual culture

For the past 28 years, Barrie Tullett has been making a typographic Dante, a project to illustrate all 100 Cantos of the Divine Comedy with letterpress, typewriters and Letraset. He is still in Purgatory … and on show in Dublin.
Appropriately enough, my love affair with typography began with a Lonely Hearts Ad, writes Barrie…