Issue 98

Opinion

Editorial Eye 98
Typography, Editorial, John L. Walters
When you visit St Bride Printing Library in London, or the living archive that is…
Posters for the people
Critique / Photography, Rick Poynor
Photographs by the Polish designer Wojciech Zamecznik investigate the use of posters as public communication By Rick Poynor

Features

Pay it forward
Sarah Snaith
Rubén Fontana devised a system for teaching typography that is grounded in Argentina’s culture and politics
The designer as podcaster
Katie Evans, Gabriela Matuszyk
Podcasts deliver a mini-conference to the smartphone in your pocket
They made Canada
John L. Walters
Working against the clock, with virtually no budget, Greg Durrell made a design documentary that shows how European immigrants created Canada’s visual identity
Type now: Independence and originality
Jan Middendorp, Sarah Snaith, Peter Bil'ak
States of independence
Jan Middendorp
The fragmentation of the type market has led to new ways of examining, acquiring and enjoying typefaces … and some confusion
The business of type design
Sarah Snaith
The challenges of earning a living from type design, with honest, thoughtful responses from foundries worldwide
Originality and inspiration
Peter Bil'ak
It may be unrealistic to expect that every new typeface will be unique and original, but giving up this ambition leads to stagnation
Strategy of excess
Silvia Sfligiotti
Like a human algorithm, Hansje van Halem explores a huge number of variables until she finds the right ‘recipe’ for each project
The enigma of Thérèse Moll
Elizabeth Resnick
This young designer is credited with introducing Swiss typography to MIT
Return to the square
John L. Walters
A chance discovery by some builders led to the adaptation and expansion of a 1930s alphabet by one of Switzerland’s foremost designers
New bottle old wine
John L. Walters
Drawing on the punches, matrices, specimens and smoke proofs at St Bride Library, Commercial Classics give nineteenth-century typefaces a new lease of life. By John L. Walters
Last man casting
Ferdinand P. Ulrich
Rainer Gerstenberg is one of the few people in the world to cast foundry type, keeping alive a craft that was developed more than half a millennium ago
Bram de Does: the king of (functional) swing
Mark Thomson
An insistence that technology should match design spurred typographer Bram de Does to create two of the twentieth century’s most beautiful types
Two cheers for publishing
Rick Poynor
A two-volume book packed with graphic design history is a visual blockbuster, but does little for scholarship. By Rick Poynor