Review: Typography

 
Slip sliding into history

Slip sliding into history

About halfway through this long and highly detailed study of the life and work of…
 
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution

Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution

The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…
 
Prolific polymath

Prolific polymath

Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that the…
 
Stone love

Stone love

Since the early 1960s Michael Twyman has contributed to the establishment and improvement of standards…
 
Thirty years before the masthead

Thirty years before the masthead

This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
 
All the news in theory and in action

All the news in theory and in action

Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…
 
Unravelling pages

Unravelling pages

Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
 
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark

We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark

In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
 
On being well read

On being well read

In this shifting digital world, countless websites, blogs and social networks provide instant information on…
 

The designer as programmer

‘Swiss’ is still a style. In the crudest terms, the style was, and is, Helvetica…
 
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