Feature: Design history
A tradition with breaks
Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and…
Puffins on the plate
How the Russian revolution – plus new technology – led to a colourful and radical change in children’s…
A Monotype timeline
A selected, chronological list of notable events in the long, complex history of Monotype
NASA patches
Embroidered space travel patches, collected and appreciated by Eugene Dorr
Machine head
Fritz Kahn commissioned illustrators to realise his surreal pedagogical vision – mechanical metaphors…
South Bank show
The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival of…
Willem Sandberg: Warm printing
The Dutch pioneer’s catalogues for the Stedelijk show a tactile use of sensual materials and…
Reputations: Richard Hollis
‘The ideal situation is where you sit with the client and design with them. If anything is emphasised…
Marked by time
Two catalogues reveal much about stencil-making in Germany and the US in the mid-twentieth century, while…
Social vision
RoSPA’s Second World War safety posters challenge orthodox views of British Modernism