The 1990s ushered in a radical new era for typography, as the rise of desktop publishing democratised font design and unleashed unprecedented creative experimentation. What emerged was a wild mix of ...

If you ask any graphic design student at San Francisco's Academy of Art University to name his or her most-faved teachers, Typography 2 instructor Carolina de Bartolo will no doubt pop up in the ...

Book designer and author Joel Friedlander takes a look at pitfalls self-publishers face when doing their own book formatting, and explains how to avoid these mistakes in the first place.

And last week, Design Observer announced this year’s winners, divided up into overall book design and solely cover design. Across both categories, typography takes center stage over book cover ...

Design Legend Louise Fili Photographs The Gorgeous Typography Of Italy Fili shares her three-decade love affair with Italy’s typography and vintage signage in a gorgeous new book.

The book itself deploys the crisp sans-serif typography, grids and photographic simplicity of the era, providing a comprehensive overview of this still influential period of creative design. According ...

From our friends at Mark Batty comes The Serif Fairy -- a charming book for type geeks and their progeny, which follows The Serif Fairy as she hunts for her lost wing across and airy, meticulously ...

Few designers can be said to have such an impact on a national character. Her long collaboration with her former Chelsea School of Art tutor Jock Kinneir started when Calvert was just 21 with work on ...