by Stephen Tiano | Feb 23, 2021 | typography
Last week I picked at things that irritated me about the 1987 first English translation of Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography (Die neue Typographie). To be fair, it now appears to me that I reacted—mostly to Robin Kinross’ excellent Introduction—to the statement that...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 21, 2021 | typography
In the movie, The Usual Suspects, there’s a scene in which it begins to sink in to those of us watching that if Keyser Soze exists, it may only be in Kevin Spacey’s character Verbal’s mind. Spacey steps outside the stationhouse he’s just been questioned in and his...
by Stephen Tiano | Feb 19, 2021 | typography
What an interesting bit of reading I did last night! Just before putting head to pillow I cracked open one of my favorite books of late, Designing books: practice and theory, by Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross (London: Hyphen Press, 1996). Without quoting too many...
