Book Review by Lucas Czarnecki I will not start this review with a rant about the importance for designers to look past their often-limited sphere of specialty, but what I will say is that all designers—typographers not excepted—need to study …
Futura by Petra Eisele, et al.
Book Review by Lucas Czarnecki Every typographer can identify Futura’s geometric curves from miles away. Over the years since Paul Renner designed Futura, designers have put it to use on fashion bags, book covers, event posters, lunar plaques, and everything …
Printed in North Korea by Nicholas Bonner
Book Review by Lucas Czarnecki The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also called the dprk or North Korea, is anything but democratic and anything but a republic; it is however still composed of people. It is all too easy to forget …
Ways of Being by James Cahill
Book Review by Lucas Czarnecki Designers who wish they were called artists might want to read James Cahill’s new book, Ways of Being: Advice for Artists by Artists. Its title makes it seem like it may be a mundane tutorial …
Analog Algorithm by Christoph Grünberger
Reviewing Christoph Grünberger’s Analog Algorithm, a book about grids that breaks from tradition.
