London-based graphic designer and photographer Amandine Alessandra is the subject of our latest Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Here she discusses the people that inspire her work and what the future has in store for Amandine Alessandra. What led you to making handmade type? Typographic installations allowed me to put together my two loves, photography [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We spoke to legendary art director, author, critic and editor Steven Heller about his new book Scripts, co-authored by designer Louise Fili, and the lost art of penmanship in the digital age. Can you give us a brief description of Scripts? Scripts is a celebration of script letters, alphabets and fonts from classical to modern, [...]
For the first in our new series of author interviews we caught up with Teal Triggs (author of Fanzines) and talked self-publishing, riot grrls and the role of print in the digital era. Can you give us a brief description of Fanzines? Fanzines is written from a collector’s perspective and provides a historical and visual [...]
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