To highlight a university’s prototyping prowess, the London studio Johnson Banks designed a 3-D alphabet showcasing a century’s worth of typefaces. Rapid prototyping has quickly become the darling ...

Alphabet in Motion,’ a new book from designer Kelli Anderson, uses pop-ups to show how letters got their shapes. Have you ...

Graphic design student Ben Barrett-Forrest couldn’t find any educational type videos he liked, so he took the matter into his own hands (very literally). The history of typography began with a German ...

Let’s face it, fonts and typefaces have officially become a mainstream obsession. In our current design-centric culture, terms like sans-serif, Helvetica, and — heaven forbid — Comic Sans have ...

London-based identity and branding company Johnson Banks often works with printing and 3D experiments. Their latest project is called Arkitypo, a 3D alphabet that recounts the history of typography as ...

As the world faced a second global war, among the politics and propaganda, the 1930s saw significant change in the way people communicated through design – particularly as the written word became ...

Along with the popularization of technology, the world of typography is now something everyone enjoys. But the terrain of fonts is kind of like alcohol; everyone loves it but few actually know ...

The 1940s was a decade shaped by global conflict, post-war reconstruction, and the rise of Modernist ideals. And the typography of the era reflects these dramatic contrasts neatly, with the best ...