Manchester-based designer and crafter Emma Smart is the subject of our latest Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Read on to find out what inspires her work and what the future holds for Smart Emma. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? Working as a graphic designer I seem to spend a lot of my time [...]
Typographic designer and researcher Karin von Ompteda is the subject of our next Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Read on to find out what inspires her work and what the future holds.. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? I think at the time there was something in the air – a certain zeitgeist had [...]
We met Kerstin Zumstein and Helen Parton, authors of Total Office Design, to have a chat about the project, their favourite offices in the book and the importance of ecological design. What led you to working together and developing the Total Office Design project? Kerstin Zumstein: As the editor of onoffice magazine, I came across [...]
Designer Anna Mullin aka (Sneaky Raccoon) is the subject of our next Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Read on to find out what inspires her work and what the future holds for Sneaky Raccoon. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? I simply enjoy drawing and exploring ideas. Typography seemed like on obvious route to [...]
Next in our series of Handmade Type Workshop contributor interviews is Natsuki Otani – a young Tokyo-born illustrator (and editor of Illustration Rally) who works with ink to create beautiful and bold freehand type styles. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? Working by hand is more natural to me, my illustration is mostly hand [...]
Last Friday afternoon, I took a wander down to the Royal Festival Hall for a taste of Wayne Hemingway’s Vintage 2011. Moving on from its 2010 debut at Goodwood, this celebration of the history of British creativity invaded the Southbank Centre with colourful clothes, music, food, craft, art and design for a whole weekend – [...]
For the first in our series of Handmade Type Workshop contributor interviews, we spoke to Mr Yen (aka Jonathan Chapman) – a papercutting master from Leeds – who tells us more about his work and the resurgence of handmade styles in graphic design. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? I have always been interested [...]
From initial ideas to the book shop shelf, the ‘Life Cycle of a Book’ series will look into the process of publishing illustrated books from beginning to end. In this first series, we’re looking at the life cycle of Magnum Contact Sheets – a brand new title published this Autumn by Thames & Hudson. This [...]
One of our bestselling books of 2010 is now available in a paperback edition! Sophie Howarth and Stephen McLaren’s Street Photography Now presents 46 contemporary image-makers noted for their candid depictions of everyday life in our streets. Included are Magnum masters such as Bruce Gilden, Martin Parr and Alex Webb, along with an international cast [...]
To celebrate the publication of James Sherwood’s new book Fashion at Royal Ascot, we asked him to write up a little report of the launch evening held this month at the beautiful Heywood Hill bookshop in West London. Catch up with more tales from James’ fabulous life at his blog The London Cut Diary. In [...]
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