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Recent articles by Robin Kinross

Eurothis and eurothatIssue 5, Winter 1991
Opinion

	Will the political and monetary union of Europe lead to an increasingly homogeneous graphic design? Or will designers fight for solutions that are local to a country’s culture yet international is resonance?
            
Sharp thinking takes the prizeIssue 39, Spring 2001
Review

                                                The latest Charles Nypels Prize for typography was awarded last November to Erik van Blokland…                        
Last night I dreamt a page set in Bitstream FuturaFeature

LettermenFeature

Recording spontaneous momentsFeature

Copyright will tear us apartFeature

A type lab full of word shapesFeature

The vital signs of a modern manFeature

Book design as architectureFeature

Theories of the material worldFeature

Themes and variationsFeature

Form, colour and utopiaFeature

Treumann battered into patternsFeature

ATYPI discovers a rich seam of practical reflectionFeature

South Bank showIssue 65, Autumn 2007
Feature

                                            The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival of Britain – on one side only
            
Relics of the ModernIssue 11, Winter 1993
Feature

                                            Doing up typefaces is not like doing up buildings – more like re-creating the parts from which buildings can be made
            
Unclassifiable labelIssue 33, Autumn 1999
Feature

                                            This swiss company has pioneered inventive solutions to the practical and aesthetic challenges of "branding" a radical programme of recordings
            
Let the object speakIssue 11, Winter 1993
Feature

                                            The work of Dutch designer Karel Martens is rooted in materials rather than the ravishing image
            
Technology, aesthetics and typeIssue 3, Spring 1991
Feature

                                            With a substantial body of work already completed, Gerard Unger’s designs are entering a new phase.
            
Letters in the cityIssue 10, Autumn 1993
Feature

                                            Eye reassesses the legacy of Edward Wright: designer, teacher, artist and “culture-carrier”
            
Temple of typeIssue 2, Winter 1990
Feature

	St Bride Library is one of the world’s best sources of information about type design and typography. Now it is under threat
            
The digital waveIssue 7, Summer 1992
Feature

	The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines, while initiatives in design – and in the terms and routines that condition design – have been made by a few rapidly growing software and computer hardware companies. Pathbreaking contributions have come from small studios or individual designers working, in every sense, from just a desktop. There have been ‘font wars’, corporate piracy and copyright contravention on a large scale. To use the loose terminology by which we attempt to carve up typographic history, it is clear that during the 1980s, the developed world left behind photographic typography (to which metal had ceded) and entered the era of the ‘digital’
            
The price of peaceIssue 24, Spring 1997
Opinion

                                            The bland new Euro provides an object lesson in how design represents historical reality.            
Archive: International Picture LanguageIssue 19, Winter 1995
Feature

	Otto Neurath’s 1936 book was the fullest exposition of his vision of an international visual language            
High thoughts on a self-effacing artIssue 7, Summer 1992
Review

                                                ‘To begin with, let us enumerate what is repulsive and therefore wrong.’ Thus opens an…                        
Cool, clear, collectedIssue 1, Autumn 1990
Feature

	Blue Note designer Reid Miles and photographer Francis Wolff were a classic combo. Their covers have been envied, imitated, but rarely equalled.
            
Typography’s new priestsIssue 1, Autumn 1990
Review

                                                ‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…                        
Critical spirit of a telephone bookIssue 16, Spring 1995
Opinion

	The all-lowercase Dutch phone book has yielded to the ‘Modern Traditionalism’ of Martin Majoor
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Type Tuesday

27 March 2012
Design history, Graphic design, New media, Technology, Typography, Visual culture
Eye maps the landscape of digital typography … in 1992
This week we take a look at Eye no. 7 vol. 2, a typography special…