Adam Bock's "The Typographer's Dream" is a striking one-act that uses the ruse of a panel discussion to explore the variable dynamics between profession, self and interpersonal relationships. Highly ...
When we think of the people who shaped early computing history, we think of inventors, engineers, CEOs. We might not think of Hermann Zapf, the German type designer who died this week at 96. But we ...
A typographer with a passion for writing and physics is set to mash up both with a new Einstein font, designed for use by typists keen to follow in the pen strokes of the iconic scientist. Devised by ...
Few of us are passionate about the look of the cedilla, that squiggle beneath the letters in certain foreign words (for instance, garçon in French). But Margaret, the title character in Adam Bock’s ...
For those who regret what keyboards and touch screens have done to their penmanship, typographer Harald Geisler has an answer: Sigmund Freud. Not the psychoanalyst himself, but a computer font based ...
Jarlath Hayes, who died on May 17th aged 76, was a master typographer and designer who gave his best years as a man of letters… Jarlath Hayes, who died on May 17th aged 76, was a master typographer ...