Typography

Dirk Wachowiak|Interviews

Peter Bilak & Satya Rajpurohit: Interview on Typography

Dirk Wachowiak interviews Peter Bilak and Satya Rajpurohit on their recent collaboration, the Hindi version of Bilak’s Fedra.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

MoMA’s Modern Women

The Museum of Modern Art's new installation, "Designing Modern Women," could have made a bolder statement about the transformative role of women in 20th century design and architecture.

Hans Rudolf Bosshard|Typography

Building Blocks of Type

The lettering of city buildings: observation and readability

Sean Adams|Insights Per Minute

Sean Adams on Typography

Sean Adams is a partner at AdamsMorioka in Beverly Hills. Sean is President ex officio and past national board member of AIGA, and President ex officio of AIGA Los Angeles. He teaches at Art Center College of Design.

Steven Heller|Gallery

Lettering Large

An excerpt and gallery from Steven Heller and Mirko Ilić's new book: Lettering Large: Art and Design of Monumental Typography.

Steven Heller|Essays

The Americanization of 20s New Typography; Or the Soft Sell of the Avant Garde

Die Neue Typographie (The New Typography), the early 20th century revolution in graphic design, is being re-evaluated this year in light of the Bauhaus centenary.

Rick Poynor|Essays

Saul Leiter and the Typographic Fragment

In Saul Leiter's color photographs, the fragment is infinitely more mysterious and suggestive than the whole.

Steven Heller|Essays

Seymour Chwast: Few Words, Many Letters

Seymour Chwast, a man of few words, wishes there were more than 26 letters in the alphabet.

Alexandra Lange|Essays

What Makes Architecture Useful?

At Experimenta Design 2011, the buildings of Lisbon make the best argument for the ongoing usefulness of good design.

Nadine Chahine|Essays

Singing in Arabic

“Isn’t there space for more than one Arab narrative?” Advocating cultural respect through typography.

Observed|Projects

The A to Z Project

Bierut, Doyle, Gill, Haze + 40 more...all in the A to Z Project for FreeArtsNYC.

Sara Jamshidi|Typography

Face Forward: Tobias Frere-Jones

A new typography + design conference