Julia Thrift
Recent articles by Julia Thrift
Typo Photo
Issue 4, Summer 1991
London’s most progressive designers are working with a small group of photographers highly…
The Swastika as symbol
Issue 16, Spring 1995
Reasons to recycle
Issue 3, Spring 1991
When cheaper is just as good
Issue 12, Spring 1994
How they lost the paper war
Issue 11, Winter 1993
Signs of trouble
Issue 19, Winter 1995
British designer David Crow uses his personal projects to question the authority of the graphic…
Techno craft
Issue 23, Winter 1996
David James is a typographer with an exacting eye, who blurs the boundaries between graphic design…
Do-it-yourself
Issue 26, Autumn 1997
Activists were not interested in design sophistication, but their publishing tools imposed their own…
Type fashion fusion
Issue 22, Autumn 1996
A stylist, a photographer and a typographer celebrate the look and feel of exceptional clothes
Sweet smell of excess
Issue 13, Summer 1994
Perfume packaging must evoke the indescribable. It has its own designers, conventions and codes.
In search of Barney Bubbles
Issue 6, Spring 1992
He was a pioneer of British graphics, but he refused to sign his own work
Reputations: Rudy VanderLans
Issue 7, Summer 1992
‘The thing we have never done at Emigre is to second guess what the audience would like or be able…
8vo: type and structure
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
For fifteen years this UK practice has given typography a central place in graphic design
Marks on paper
Issue 15, Winter 1994
Letterpress’s eclipse by digital typesetting has been a liberation for typographer Alan Kitching
Why a nifty logo is no longer enough
Issue 14, Autumn 1994
Corporate identity’s success may also be its undoing. The fear of making mistakes has led to a…