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.

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.

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.

Observed|New Ideas

Arial vs Helvetica: War is Hell

The type world just isn't big enough for the both Arial and Helvetica. So what happens when they go to war?

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.

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.

Observed|Projects

The A to Z Project

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

Observed|Miscellaneous

Typolitic

Typolitic is a new website that presents some of the best typographic student work from undergraduate design courses around the world.

Sara Jamshidi|Typography

Face Forward: Tobias Frere-Jones

A new typography + design conference

Ellen Lupton|Typography

The Making of Typographic Man

The self-reflexive type

Hans Rudolf Bosshard|Typography

Building Blocks of Type

The lettering of city buildings: observation and readability