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Special Feature: Type Design TodayI
Robin Kinross – Some features of the font explosion
Jean François Porchez – Type design that changed the outlook of Paris
Fred Smeijers – From punchcutting to digital type design
Akira Kobayashi – Originality and Redesign of Typeface
André Baldinger – Succeeding experimental typefaces
LettError – Twin Cities – Typeface represent a city
François Rappo – Didot Elder – Radical revival of Historical Typefaces
Matthew Carter – Yale University Typeface Project
Type Foundry Today
List of indipendent type foundries
Exhibition – Frische Schriften / Fresh Type
When Pigs Design Vol.27 by Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Invention and Nude in acknowledgement to the 40th anniversary of Lava Lamp
Typography Review vol. 5
The meaning of Stanley Morison today – Text by Mitsuo Kohno, Supervision by Jiro Katashio, Design by Yoshihisa Shirai
Shinro Ohtake Original Serial Poster

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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.