Journal tagged by Designers

Three examples of interesting editorial typography today, starting with Swedish fashion title Bon. The magazine has never quite caught my imagination in the past but their current Spring/Summer 2011 issue has these great headline treatments. The simple monochrome Gill Sans...

London is on standby for a major celebration of Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel. A rare exhibition of his work opens later this month at the Design Museum, curated by my good friend and Dutch design obsessive Tony Brook. His...

I wish I had time to prepare this type of coverage of magazines. Luckily, though, Michael does it for us and while I‘ve regularly linked to his previous videos this time I thought I’d run it in full here. Put...

Type by Hellovon I’ve been meaning to highlight the covers of Bloomberg Business Week for some time. Design director Richard Turley moved from London and The Guardian to New York about a year ago to redesign the magazine following its...

The fifth issue of Nico, published from Luxembourg by my Colophon partner Mike Koedinger, is out this week. Over 200 pages of goodness, including an interview with Harry Peccinotti (one of the team behind the original version of Nova) and...

Kuchar Swara has given the rather tired Spectator a much-needed redesign, its first since the eighties. And very elegant it is too. New York-based typographer Joshau Darden was commissioned to redraw the logo, removing the previous clumsy ‘CT’ ligature, and...