Review: Typography
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
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
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
In this shifting digital world, countless websites, blogs and social networks provide instant information on…
Square pegs
The postwar reconstruction era of 1950s in the Netherlands is usually viewed as a dreary…
Relax and you’ll be swept away
Where to start with a book like The Floating World: Ukiyo-e? There is a tendency…
The designer as programmer
‘Swiss’ is still a style. In the crudest terms, the style was, and is, Helvetica…
Type: Science and conscience
The debate of style over content is clearly not a new one in book publishing. In…
New languages and noisy texts
Increasingly sophisticated methods of communication mean that the appropriateness of conventional forms of reading and…
Is anybody out there reading?
One of the features of Octavo magazine that made it so appealing to anyone who encountered the first issue … was the finite nature of the enterprise.