Blog: Typography

17 January 2012

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

type tuesday, yves peters

Review of the Complete Works of type designer Adrian Frutiger
Adrian Frutiger (Switzerland, b. 1928) is one of the most important type designers of the…

11 January 2012

Force of nature

Force of nature

liz farrelly

New Kapitza book replaces geometric certainty with organic structure
Following on from their 2008 book Geometric, the Kapitza sisters, Nicole and Petra, have produced…

9 January 2012

‘Need a new toolbox.’

‘Need a new toolbox.’

john ridpath, type tuesday

Type Tuesday: Made by Many chat about the challenges of webfonts
Eye has covered webfonts several times, most recently in ‘Andmoreagain’ a blog about the 2011Ampersand…

5 January 2012

Joe rocks

Joe rocks

eric gillett

A stone’s throw from Interstate 80 – messages in the snake-infested brush
Short of car trouble or comfort breaks, there’s no real reason to stop along the…

20 December 2011

Type Tuesday

Type Tuesday

andrew haslam, type tuesday

How lettering is made for public display: hand-routing
Andrew Haslam looks at the production of display lettering, and, in this instalment, hand-routing a…

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…

15 December 2011

Behind the belly band

Behind the belly band

sallyanne theodosiou

What happens when you stick a hyphen into culture?
Rian Hughes’s Cult-ure asks the question ‘What is a book?’ writes Sallyanne Theodosiou. Each spread…

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…

8 December 2011

Metal on metal

Metal on metal

andrew haslam

Andrew Haslam on the way store lettering is ‘routed’ for public display
Profile-cut letters for public signage are usually ‘routed’ by machine, from a cutting guide based…
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