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  • Craftwork

    Before graphics software and computers, designers had to use scalpels, T-squares, Rotring pens, Cow Gum and art-board to create physical artwork. Adrian Shaughnessy recalls the days when art demanded painstaking craft.

  • Type of our times

    The 20th century saw type developments unimaginable to the old mid-millennium masters. We explore the history of modern typography, tracing its form from 1900 to the present.

  • Profile: Hort

    Eleven years ago, Eike Koenig fell in love with record label design. But as Graeme Aymer discovers, now there's much more to Hort's creative mix.

  • Experimental typography

    The digital era has brought about an explosion of new ideas and approaches in type design, but can the experimental school get along with typography's long-established traditions?

  • Playful Typographic Treatments

    The possibilities for adding humorous appeal to your type designs are limitless. Jessica Walsh shows you how to whip your letters into shape.

  • The art of ornament

    Recent Computer Arts cover illustrator Tom Lane reveals how he uses Illustrator and Fontographer to create impressive decorative typefaces that can be used to inject something special into your work.

  • Design a custom typeface

    There may be tens of thousands of fonts out there, but that doesn't mean you can't create your own custom type solution for a unique logo...

  • Typographic overload

    When an abundance of choice leads to dithering away design time, perhaps we don't need any more new fonts, says Jason Arber. So how should we go about stopping the designers responsible from creating more and more choices?
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