Matthew Carter

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Old school layout

Issue 82, Winter 2011

Feature

Every fortnight, art director Tony Rushton and editor Ian Hislop lay out Private Eye in a way that’s hardly changed in 50 years

The line of beauty

Issue 83, Summer 2012

Feature

Script typefaces, currently enjoying an unprecedented popularity, bring a vital element of humanity to the digital age. By Paul Shaw and Abby Goldstein

Unfurling artwords

Issue 59, Spring 2006

Feature

The Walker Art Center has a new identity – multi-voiced, reflexive – that does exactly what it says

Publish and be damned

Issue 82, Winter 2011

Feature

As Private Eye celebrates its best sales figures for 25 years, lifelong subscriber Andrew Billen describes its winning mix of gossip, serious exposés, parodies, cartoons and attention-grabbing covers

Nameless thing

Issue 57, Autumn 2005

Feature

Tokyo’s TDC rewards work that transcends means, intention, content, context – and just ‘is’

Reputations: Matthew Carter

Issue 11, Winter 1993

Feature

“Type design had been seen as a brave but arcane business that requires a lifetime’s dedication. I’m happy that notion has gone”

The digital wave

Issue 7, Summer 1992

Feature

The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production have been swallowed and largely pushed to the sidelines. By Robin Kinross

‘Type-only Penguins sell a million’ shock

Issue 54, Winter 2004

Opinion

Penguin uses design to revitalise its back catalogue with Great Ideas and a revived Reference Library

Typography’s new priests

Issue 1, Autumn 1990

Review

‘Type90’ brought several hundred typographically preoccupied people to Oxford this summer. Following the successful pattern…

Recent blog posts about Matthew Carter

Tokyo two-track

4 November 2019
Design education, Design history, Graphic design, Typography

The scripts of East and Southeast Asia came to the fore at the annual ATypI conference. John D. Berry reports
Not surprisingly, the 2019 ATypI conference in Tokyo had a large participation by East Asian…

Noted #46

22 November 2012
Graphic design, Typography

Schwitters, typewriting, wood type, the future Detroit Printing Plant and the United Stats of America
This past Friday the last British-made typewriter, the CM-1000, left the Brother factory in Wrexham…

Type Tuesday: Private Eye

18 October 2011
Design history, Graphic design, Magazines, Technology, Typography

Matthew Carter’s timeless typographic masthead for Private Eye magazine
Tony Rushton has been art director of satirical magazine Private Eye for 49 of its…