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John D. Berry

Recent articles by John D. Berry

How books work [EXTRACT]Issue 107, Winter 2025
Review
The strength of Berne’s book is in her common-sense approach to her subject and her straightforward, colloquial writing style …
Easy readingIssue 98, Spring 2019
Review

                                                Paul Luna has written a very thorough explanation of typography as a subject and a…                        
Faith in asymmetryFeature

                                    
Type conference for the ‘little guys’ [extract]Issue 62, Winter 2006
Review

                                                The existence of TypeCon speaks to the popularity of type – or fonts, as most…                        
Typographic footnotes for the futureIssue 45, Autumn 2002
Review

                                                This heavy little compendium is a mixed bag. It’s accurately self-described on the cover as…                        
Impressions of another timeIssue 25, Summer 1997
Review

                                                In an attempt to re-assess the foundations of today’s electronic type design, Fred Smeijers went…                        
Legible in public spaceIssue 67, Spring 2008
Feature

                                            Whether as labelling, wayfinding or mere decoration, letters bring function and form to the built environment. By John D. Berry            

Recent blog posts about John D. Berry

Single track to a wide territory

25 June 2024
Reviews, Typography, Events and exhibitions

Interaction and communication were the order of the day at the second ATypI conference to be held in the Southern hemisphere. John D. Berry reports

This year’s ATypI conference in Brisbane, Australia was the smallest ATypI in several decades, writes John Berry

Tokyo two-track

4 November 2019
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Typography

The scripts of East and Southeast Asia came to the fore at the annual ATypI conference. John D. Berry reports

Not surprisingly, the 2019 ATypI conference in Tokyo had a large participation by East Asian…

From sideline to centre stage

11 April 2012
Graphic design, Reviews, Technology, Typography

TYPO San Francisco shows the way digressions can become the main event

The level of talks at TYPO San Francisco was uniformly high, writes John D. Berry (also…