Edward Wright

Recent articles about Edward Wright

A tradition with breaks

Issue 86, Autumn 2013

Feature

Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and rediscovering their history.

Letters in the city

Issue 10, Autumn 1993

Feature

Eye reassesses the legacy of Edward Wright: designer, teacher, artist and “culture-carrier”

Recent blog posts about Edward Wright

Sun-cheese wheel-ode

10 December 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture

Dom Sylvester Houédard’s 1968 concrete poetry tribute to fellow poet Ken Cox is a double spiral of hand-set type, mysteriously linked by the sport of cheese rolling. Fraser Muggeridge explains.
The letterpress printed concrete poem designed by Dom Sylvester Houédard first caught my interest because…