How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul
Adrian Shaughnessy
On the “science” of typography
On Modern Typography & Slow Learner
Slow Learner
Thomas Pynchon
Pynchon’s early stories are facile at best, but the introduction to the collection—in which Pynchon addresses his readers and talks about his writing—is invaluable.
Tschichold arguing against Swiss design
On Modern Typography
On modern typography in America
On Modern Typography
On the typography of democracy
On Modern Typography
On the question of what is literature
On Literary Theory & Modern Typography
On “masculine printing” versus “feminine printing”
On Modern Typography
Modern Typography
Robin Kinross
A rare object—a book on typography that is as beautifully written as it is designed.
Coming back around again to criticism and ideology
On Unjustified Texts
Regarding the “new” typography
On Unjustified Texts
On the origins of the designer
On Unjustified Texts
A reminder about the collaboration required to produce a beautiful book
On Unjustified Texts
Kinross on Tschichold’s turn towards the traditional
On Unjustified Texts
On not judging a book by its cover
On Unjustified Texts
On the democracy of letters
On Unjustified Texts
A good metaphor
On Unjustified Texts
Unjustified Texts
Robin Kinross
Diary of a Bad Year
J. M. Coetzee
Coetzee’s latest novel is written as two, entwined diaries—his own and that of a younger woman who he comes to pass the time with.