Simon Esterson
Recent articles by Simon Esterson
Fritz Gottschalk and the Swiss-Canadian connection
Issue 99, Autumn 2019
Gottschalk + Ash International spans more than five decades, a Swiss design studio with Modernist…
Liberté, égalité, typography
Issue 97, Autumn 2018
Serge Ricco, creative director of l’Obs, has shown this word-driven, left-wing French weekly the…
A note on the type
Issue 95, Winter 2018
Notes from the American North-West
Issue 93, Winter 2017
Book of the mag of the moment
Issue 93, Winter 2017
The book of Michael
Issue 92, Summer 2016
Reputations: Mucho
Issue 89, Winter 2014
‘We were interested in working internationally, to learn from different cultures and to know how…
All the news in theory and in action
Issue 88, Summer 2014
An Atlas of Typeforms
Issue 86, Autumn 2013
As a sidebar to ‘Quiet man of letters’, Simon Esterson talks about his early encounters with this…
Sans serifs in suburbia
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Sainsbury’s brought 1960s Modernism to the kitchen cupboard
Well fed in the West End
Issue 87, Spring 2014
Ardizzone’s menus evoked a mid-century world of food-loving Londoners
Pictures on a page
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Robin Nicholas
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
‘I don’t see myself as a typeface designer. Hermann Zapf is a typeface designer. What I have done…
Dan Rhatigan: All about workflow
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
Monotype’s UK type director talks about the way the company’s 125-year history informs its…
Editorial Eye 84
Issue 84, Autumn 2012
When the pen was mighty
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Reputations: Commercial Type
Issue 82, Winter 2012
‘There has been typography on the Web for its entire existence, because there are words, and where…
Union of Soviet socialist images
Issue 71, Spring 2009
Off the shelf
Issue 82, Winter 2012
Brodovitch’s encore
Issue 80, Summer 2011
Drink me
Issue 76, Summer 2010
Big book of books
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
World of designer interiors
Issue 67, Spring 2008
Print, but not as we know it
Issue 66, Winter 2007
Beauty and process
Issue 65, Autumn 2007
Passion for print
Issue 64, Summer 2007
Ragbag of magazine design
Issue 49, Autumn 2003
You can judge by the cover
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Soft-edged memoir
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
Manual transmissions
Issue 68, Summer 2008
Head Trip
Issue 78, Winter 2010
Simon Esterson applauds the vivid drama of a pharmaceutical brochure
The ranged left years
Issue 74, Winter 2009
Putting the graph in graphic
Issue 70, Winter 2008
Printing.com
Issue 66, Winter 2007
Where digital tools changed design, global communications and green issues are redefining the world…
The font now arriving at Platform 1
Issue 75, Spring 2010
Penguin in pictures
Issue 73, Autumn 2009
The elegant simplicity of torn paper
Issue 69, Autumn 2008
Glimpses of a graphic reality
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Taking care of business
Issue 80, Summer 2011
The pages of Bloomberg Businessweek explode with infographics, illustration and design experiment.…
That’s art direction
Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Words and pictures – and the way they are used to tell a story – lie at the heart of every…
In few words / Manplan 1
Issue 54, Winter 2004
The AR’s Manplan is a tactile reminder of a time when magazines lived dangerously
Kit of parts
Issue 44, Summer 2002
A newspaper is a giant kit of parts that gets assembled in different ways each day. Contemporary…
First Things First Manifesto 2000
Issue 33, Autumn 1999
Thirty-three visual communicators renew the 1964 call for a change of priorities
Monitor: End of default
Issue 75, Spring 2010
The technology that allows us to control type on the Web is available. Now designers and foundries…
The Vignellis: a thoroughly Modernist marriage
Issue 60, Summer 2006
Lella and Massimo Vignelli talk to Eye’s
John L. Walters and Simon Esterson
Inspiration
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Designer Simon Esterson finds inspiration in Ken Briggs’s National Theatre programmes from the…
Could this be the death of the dot?
Issue 14, Autumn 1994
Recent blog posts by Simon Esterson
Letterpress celebration
13 October 2020
Every Eye ever
26 June 2020
Reportage lives
12 August 2016
Type on the tongue
20 December 2013
Type Tuesday: Reputations
3 July 2012
Beatrice Warde lecture
27 October 2010
Early adopter: Desmond Jeffery
4 November 2009
Jan van Toorn at the Mermaid
29 March 2009
Founding father of infodesign
28 July 2008