Review: Typography

 
Ramp up the key strokes

Ramp up the key strokes

Keith Armstrong (1950-2017) was a poet, artist, film-maker, musician (under the name ‘ruhuman’) and activist who…
 
Type’s new faces

Type’s new faces

Weighing in at a little under two kilos and running to a whopping 832 pages, Shoplifters…
 
Unfinished narratives

Unfinished narratives

In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of books and projects that…
 
Sci-fi high

Sci-fi high

I have not enjoyed a novel as much as Rian Hughes’s XX: A Novel, Graphic for some time …

 
Pop art before it was ‘Art’

Pop art before it was ‘Art’

Several chapters into this captivating how-to book, Joby Carter jokes about ‘carrying on the fairground tradition …

 
Ambassador for reading

Ambassador for reading

In his daughter Flora’s schoolyard, the late Dutch type designer Gerard Unger (1942-2018) was once approached by a mother who told him that her daughter … [EXTRACT]

 
From gothic to roman, almost

From gothic to roman, almost

Most books on the history of type design follow a familiar trajectory. They either provide a…
 
Cinematic storyteller

Cinematic storyteller

David King: Designer, Activist, Visual Historian is an enthralling visual document of King’s work from his student experiments to the groundbreaking visual histories of his later years …

 
Gender imbalance

Gender imbalance

Within the design publishing landscape, type-focused titles abound, yet type designed by women remains proportionally under-represented…
 
Signs of street life

Signs of street life

At a time when many of us know our location all too well, having been…
 
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