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Recent articles by Eric Kindel

A tradition with breaksIssue 86, Autumn 2013
Feature

	Stencil typefaces – late arrivals on the typographic scene – are going in new directions and…
The test of timeIssue 68, Summer 2008
Feature
After 90 years, Ishihara’s colour deficiency plates have proved their effectiveness as a…
Predation and consumption: adrift in ecstacityIssue 53, Autumn 2004
Review

	Architects with ambition rarely restrict their interests to only single…
      
Spinning Tales about SignsIssue 50, Winter 2003
Review

                Signs is a welcome addition to a small but important group of books and articles…
      
Off the wall  [EXTRACT]Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Review

                While both stencilled graffiti and its freely rendered counterpart collide content…
      
Mixed up and chopped downIssue 30, Winter 1998
Review

The condition of modernityIssue 31, Spring 1999
Review

World of signs and picturesIssue 37, Autumn 2000
Review

                The work of Wolfgang Weingart may to some mean simply the series of extraordinary…
      
Ken Garland’s life in politicsIssue 24, Spring 1997
Review

	“In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, and go as brave as the…
      
IshiharaIssue 56, Summer 2005
Feature
Nine decades on, a Japanese army doctor’s invention is still being used to test colour vision
Design for the undergroundIssue 16, Spring 1995
Review

	Following his seminal 1969 article in the Penrose Annual, ‘The Design of the…
      
Cheap Jack FlashIssue 60, Summer 2006
Feature
Fluorescent inks – costly, dramatic, even ‘vulgar’ – provided 1950s designers with a fresh…
Worlds of moiréIssue 52, Summer 2004
Feature
Effect, defect, accident or design – moiré has a vital place in printing
Hoofdletters, Tweeling- en MeerlingdrukIssue 47, Spring 2003
Feature
An eccentric typographic proposal from the 1950s 
Marked by timeIssue 40, Summer 2001
Feature
Two catalogues reveal much about stencil-making in Germany and the US in the mid-twentieth century…
When 1+1=3Issue 43, Spring 2002
Feature
Colour overprinting: constructed images by printers and designers
Unintended accidentsIssue 53, Autumn 2004
Opinion

	Letter from Eric Kindel

Recent blog posts by Eric Kindel

Type Tuesday: Between writing & type

15 May 2012

Stencils, stencil letters, tools and new fonts on display in Antwerp

The exhibition ‘Between Writing & Type: The Stencil Letter’, which opened in Antwerp on 19 April 2012, combines two aims, reports co-curator Eric Kindel. The first is to display artefacts gathered over the past ten or so years that document some of the history of stencil letters. The second is to introduce a series of new stencil fonts.