User-friendly point-of-use instructions for home use diagnostic tests: guidance and tools
16 January 2023Sue Walker and Josefina Bravo have produced guidance in the form of a toolkit and a dataset for the design of instructions to support home… Read more
Paul Luna: a very short introduction to typography
25 January 2019‘It’s not all about fonts!’ At a special Baseline Shift session, our former Head of Department stressed the importance of design for reading. Read more
Facing the world
3 January 2019‘Facing the World: Towards a Global History of Non-Latin Type Design’ is a special issue of Philological Encounters, edited by Thomas S. Mullaney of Stanford… Read more
Chinese publishing collaboration proceeds
8 November 2018The inaugural symposium of the Creative Chinese Character Industry took place at the Beijing Convention Center on 3 and 4 November. The symposium brought together… Read more
Reading in Eye’s typography issue
12 June 2015The latest issue of Eye magazine, the international review of graphic design, is dedicated to typography and typeface design. The Department is very well represented… Read more
Yearbook of Type
11 July 2013Edited by the same team that publish the Slanted magazine, this substantial reference volume for new typefaces has just been published by Niggli. The volume presents typefaces… Read more
Monotype Recorder online
24 May 2013Monotype’s lauded Pencil to Pixel exhibition (in Wapping last November, and New York earlier this month) included a relaunched Monotype Recorder, after a hiatus of… Read more
A new design for Modern Poetry in Translation
25 April 2013Reading MA student Katy Mawhood’s new design for Modern Poetry in Translation has given a new look to one of Britain’s oldest poetry magazines. You… Read more
Non-Latin scripts: from metal to digital type
18 December 2012Available from the St Bride shop, Non-Latin scripts: from metal to digital type reproduces previously unpublished items for the Department’s Non-Latin Type Collection. Collection curator… Read more
Design Issues: visual essays
3 December 2012Sue Walker joins Design Issues as Associate Editor, Archives to develop visual essays that derive from high quality collections and archives of design-related materials worldwide. Design… Read more
Typeform dialogues
26 November 2012Hyphen Press Extra has today posted – free to download – a document that gathers materials from the Typeform dialogues project, carried out by Eric… Read more
Using collections in research
14 November 2012Just published in the Journal of Design History, a paper by Sue Walker based on material in the Otto… Read more
Type in Europe
26 September 2012James Mosley and Alice Savoie are contributors to a new book published to coincide with the Congrès des Musées Européens de l’Imprimerie in Lyon. James… Read more
Whatever Next
26 September 2012Founded by Camberwell Press‘ creative director, James Edgar, Whatever Next: a discourse in typography is an exhibition and book stemming from a series of conversations… Read more
8 Faces interview
23 August 2012The fifth issue of Elliot Jay Stocks’ 8 Faces magazine went on sale yesterday. Gerry Leonidas provided one of the interviews, discussing the approach to… Read more
Serious blogging
13 October 2011While most blogs are quick-fire snippets of news that you can scan in an instant and forget in a hurry, James Mosley’s Typefoundry is more… Read more
Picturing social facts: Neurath workshop proceedings published
6 October 2011During the Isotype Revisited project, Christopher Burke and Eric Kindel contributed to a workshop, ‘Picturing social facts: on Neurath’s visual language’, delivering papers alongside Friedrich… Read more