Julia Sagar sits down with one of the UK's most exciting and innovative illustrators to explore what cream, baking soda and blowtorches have to do with typography
He would rather be that guy who works with computers than that guy who used to design record covers. The era-defining designer talks to Nick Carson about new digital worlds.
"The biggest kick I get is when I see people use my typefaces in ways that I never imagined." German design genius Erik Spiekermann reveals the inner workings of the type trade to Garrick Webster.
"That's a tremendous advantage, to make a terrible blunder, because you learn that way." Graeme Aymer interviews the hugely influential designer and typographer.
Anticipation. Very few design studios generate it and then live up to the hype. As Mark Penfold discovers, however, Non-Format is one design studio that does.
With three Type Directors Club awards in the last two years, Kris Sowersby is the man agencies turn to for a custom typeface. Garrick Webster goes behind the scenes.
Legibility is overrated, declares London based designer and illustrator Craig Ward. Judging by the clutch of awards for his work, Julia Sagar thinks he's onto something.
There's a lot more to the celebrated design studio headed by a pair of identical twins than fonts, discovers Ed Ricketts. But it took a move to New York to really demonstrate that fact.