Blog: Design history

9 January 2012

Words in practice

Words in practice

jim northover

Writing and designing are part of a continuum of communication skills.
Graphic design has always been about words and images. Nowadays words play an even bigger…

19 December 2011

Noted #23

Noted #23

noted

Leiter’s fragments, animation, covers, ephemera and ‘comical’ wordmarks
Here are a few links to sites, articles and a video that grabbed our attention…

16 December 2011

Five from the archive

Five from the archive

eye editors

A handful of articles from Eye’s back pages. Kinross, Margolin, etc.
While we look forward to launching a new Eye website next year, we’ve been busily…

13 December 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

christian schwartz, paul barnes, type tuesday

Christian Schwartz and Paul Barnes deep in the archives: Wilson, 1789
Some typefaces defy the classification of time and place. Wilson’s Roman of 1789 is a…

2 December 2011

The Sheffield connection

The Sheffield connection

eye editors

Discovering a diaspora of former TDR designers in Eye 81’s ‘The far side’
A reader has pointed out an unintended pattern in the latest issue of Eye magazine…

30 November 2011

Noted #21

Noted #21

noted

Hebrew letters, famine posters, IBM typewriter ads and early mag covers
Here are some links to sites that grabbed our attention this week. Hebrew typography A…

29 November 2011

Murder most typographical

Murder most typographical

alexander ecob, type tuesday

Edward McKnight Kauffer’s titles for Hitchcock’s silent thriller The Lodger
For all the critical attention Edward McKnight Kauffer attracts (including our preview and review of…

22 November 2011

Bright Idées

Bright Idées

rick poynor

Rick Poynor is dazzled by Henry Cohen’s photographic book covers
I was browsing in a book market in Nice this summer when I encountered Henry…

16 November 2011

The past is a foreign domain

The past is a foreign domain

john ridpath

Digital Archaeology remembers Antirom, Noodlebox, Word.com, etc.
Internet Week Europe (7–11 November 2011) was, as one might expect, obsessed with the future…

11 November 2011

Noted #19

Noted #19

noted

Rudi Ruegg, infographics, Monopoly and webfonts
More links to sites, articles and other things that grabbed our attention over the past…
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