Review: Typography
Future casters
I am lucky enough to live a stone’s throw from London’s Estorick Collection in Canonbury…
In the shadow of Jenson
For now, we must content ourselves with one of the most important books on the history of type written this century.
Ramp up the key strokes
Keith Armstrong (1950-2017) aka ‘ruhuman’, earned a reputation for his typewriter art while still in his teens.
Unfinished narratives
In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of books and projects that…
Type’s new faces
Weighing in at a little under two kilos and running to a whopping 832 pages…
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’
Several chapters into this captivating how-to book, Joby Carter jokes about ‘carrying on the fairground tradition …
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
Most books on the history of type design follow a familiar trajectory. They either provide a…
Pictoglyphic time travel
If the concept of ‘designer and illustrator as author’ is worthy of close attention outside children’s…