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Recent articles about Gerard Unger

Rules of engagementIssue 98, Spring 2019
Review

	Back in 2005, I wrote ‘In Search of a Comprehensive Type Design Theory’, a…
      
Endangered speciesIssue 53, Autumn 2004
Review

	Piet Gerards is a craftsman. You can’t fail to notice this from the moment you…
      
Sense of placeIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature
Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history
Electrifying the alphabetIssue 62, Winter 2006
Feature
At the dawn of the computer age, new functions ushered in new forms for type design
Reputations: Gerard UngerIssue 40, Summer 2001
Feature

	‘Papers have all kinds of information on the same page; very distressing and very joyful; gossip…
Why Helvetica?Issue 40, Summer 2001
Feature
Despite the changes provoked by the digital ‘revolution’, designing a typeface for serious…
Technology, aesthetics and typeIssue 3, Spring 1991
Feature
With a substantial body of work already completed, Gerard Unger’s designs are entering a new…
The digital waveIssue 7, Summer 1992
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	The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century…

Recent blog posts by Gerard Unger

Noted #77

7 September 2016

Beer cans, Dutch Alphabets, the Global Synthesizer Project, An Anthology of Decorated Papers and Chanced Arm no. 2

Here are a few things – beer cans, books, a sound installation and a magazine – that caught our attention in recent weeks.