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An interview with Seb McLauchlan

An interview with Seb McLauchlan

Seb Mclauchan is one of the most interesting contemporary voices in type design. His practice focuses on multidisciplinarity: willingly bridging between type, graphic design and education. His work gathers cultural potential, and attempts to respond to the fundamental question: What is relevant today?
Typography Teaching Methods

Typography Teaching Methods

Many graphic design students reference type specimens during their education. This article reflects on the historical type specimens and typography foundations classes at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
A matter of taste

A matter of taste

Italy’s typographic modernism under fascism: In the 1930s, graphic designers found in fascist propaganda exhibitions and industrial advertising new spaces where an “Italian”-modernist visual language could be developed.
Kuzushiji recognition with AI 

Kuzushiji recognition with AI 

Dr. Tarin Clanuwat – a young scholar from Thailand who specialized in Japanese medieval literature – has developed an AI-based character recognition system, which magically transcribes pre-modern Japanese characters into modern Japanese.
Nebiolo typefaces in search of an author

Nebiolo typefaces in search of an author

An analysis of the archive material that survived after Nebiolo’s shutdown makes it possible to identify more precisely the role played by Studio Artistico’s director Alessandro Butti, Novarese’s predecessor, in creating Nebiolo typefaces. The case of the photo in the type specimen book PC 570.