The Parkside Building

Dying to be Late: On Messiaen and Said The last years in the life of any artist tend to be an emotive subject, especially so in music, the most chimeric of arts. Last works are imbued with meanings that are often as much to do with the romantic notions of the audience as any intent […]

Type Talk | Phil Abel: What I’ve been doing at work: some snaps from the Hand & Eye photo album This year I decided to try to publish at least one photo a day to Instagram and Facebook. I’ll be using this visual diary to give flavour of my work and supplementing it with other […]

Type Talks | Toshi Omagari: Myths of science and practice in typeface design We have a lot of standard practices in typeface design on how to form letters, some of which are scientifically backed and others passed on for generations without being questioned. By examining non-Latin writing systems, one might question whether they may only […]

Type Talks | Trine Rask: Reading and Writing Text When you read you recognise familiar shapes on a background. The pattern you decode consists of letters and depending on the frequency and sequence of letters (which language, which words) adjustment to the single element must be made to fit it in. The same happens in […]

Type talks | Jonathan Barnbrook: A Barnbrook Super Delux Ultra Karaoke Megamix Jonathan Barnbrook is most well-known as David Bowie’s favourite graphic designer having worked on the designs of his last 4 albums. However he has had a long and distinguished career in type design being one of the original members of the ‘typographic new wave’ – […]

Type Talks | Adrian Shaughnessy: The graphic designer as writer, editor and publisher Graphic designers are often capable of more than just graphic design. The graphic design sensibility and skill set are surprisingly well suited to a wide range of activities. Primary amongst these is the practice of writing, editing and publishing. In his talk, graphic […]