Robin Kinross
Recent articles by Robin Kinross
Eurothis and eurothat
Issue 5, Winter 1991
Will the political and monetary union of Europe lead to an increasingly homogeneous graphic…
Sharp thinking takes the prize
Issue 39, Spring 2001
Last night I dreamt a page set in Bitstream Futura
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Lettermen
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Recording spontaneous moments
Issue 47, Spring 2003
Themes and variations
Issue 3, Spring 1991
South Bank show
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
The Royal Festival hall has regained the thoroughly English lettering of its origins in the Festival…
Relics of the Modern
Issue 11, Winter 1993
Doing up typefaces is not like doing up buildings – more like re-creating the parts from which…
Let the object speak
Issue 11, Winter 1993
The work of Dutch designer Karel Martens is rooted in materials rather than the ravishing image
Unclassifiable label
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
This swiss company has pioneered inventive solutions to the practical and aesthetic challenges of…
Otto Neurath
Issue 19, Winter 1995
Otto Neurath’s 1936 book was the fullest exposition of his vision as an international visual…
Temple of type
Issue 2, Winter 1990
St Bride Library is one of the world’s best sources of information about type design and…
Technology, aesthetics and type
Issue 3, Spring 1991
With a substantial body of work already completed, Gerard Unger’s designs are entering a new…
Letters in the city
Issue 10, Autumn 1993
Eye reassesses the legacy of Edward Wright: designer, teacher, artist and “culture-carrier”
The digital wave
Issue 7, Summer 1992
The old manufacturing companies that dominated typeface production through most of this century…
Cool, clear, collected
Issue 1, Autumn 1990
Blue Note designer Reid Miles and photographer Francis Wolff were a classic combo. Their covers have…
The price of peace
Issue 24, Spring 1997
The bland new Euro provides an object lesson in how design represents historical reality.
High thoughts on a self-effacing art
Issue 7, Summer 1992
Typography’s new priests
Issue 1, Autumn 1990
Critical spirit of a telephone book
Issue 16, Spring 1995
The all-lowercase Dutch phone book has yielded to the ‘Modern Traditionalism’ of Martin Majoor
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Type Tuesday
27 March 2012