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Michael Worthington

Recent articles by Michael Worthington

A mixed bag of digital typefaces (extract)Review

                                                There is a finite number of ideas (both formal and conceptual) in contemporary type design, and…                        
Voice controlIssue 68, Summer 2008
Feature

                                            The title sequence for this Truffaut movie heralds brilliantly a world where the written word is forbidden.            
Answers that lack questionsReview

                                            
Moving letters are not enoughReview

                                                I always thought the joke seemed like an excellent metaphor for design. Most of the time…                        
How hip-hop changed the way things lookIssue 49, Autumn 2003
Review
The book answers a crucial yet often neglected question for graphic designers: ‘Where does style come from?’
On message!Issue 41, Autumn 2001
Feature

                                            Mass-market graphic activism with a contemporary relevance.            
Self 1: Self-expandingIssue 39, Spring 2001
Feature

                                            
	When a practice goes live with its own website, the lines between sales pitch, culture, publishing and ads get blurred. But ask a search engine for designers and you end up with branding or blandness. Maybe self-indulgence is the best policy            
Entranced by motion, seduced by stillnessIssue 33, Autumn 1999
Feature

                                            New media is undergoing the kind of definition print went through centuries ago. A meditation on the status of moving and static typography            
Theory in practiceIssue 49, Autumn 2003
Feature

                                            Gerstner’s curious compendium is a dense brick of knowledge            