"I have eureka moments in the middle of the night." admits Jo Ratcliffe. From illustrating Sindy for Marvel Comics to drawing real-life supermodels and designing for leading fashion labels, this artist's career isn't short of breakthroughs!
The city of Hobart in the Australian state of Tasmania seems an unlikely place for a fertile creative design scene, but it's the spiritual home to designer and typographer Rob Cordiner and the Hellavate collective. So why have they moved to London?
Stefan Gandl's typographic skills have developed from playing around with black marker pens and Letraset as a kid to producing one of today's best-selling design books.
"i'm suddenly surprised by the thought that it might actually be possible to make a living from type design. Wouldn't that be something?" Finnish font designer Emil Bertell describes the experience of starting out.
"I'm not an Erik Spiekermann type who can spend years and years and years perfecting an ampersand."Type fanatic Swifty talks to Ed Ricketts about independence, boredom, and his pioneering acid jazz style...
"A lot of packaging is just decoration its typefaces and colours and backgrounds. There needs to be a conceptual heart" Richard Murray explains the ethos behind Williams Murray Hamm.
Next year 'Helvitica' celebrates its 50th birthday and, as a tribute, filmmaker Gary Hustwit has created a movie that celebrates the font's integral role in graphic design in the last half century. Joe Russ finds out more.