TypeNotes: A journal dedicated to typography & graphic design, No.1 2017

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Content includes:
Icon worship, From Isotype to modern icons
Spacing and time, Respect the type, or how not to butcher your typography
Five things wish I knew, Stuart Watson, Nomad
The lap of luxury, Analysis: An investigation of type used in luxury brands
Interview, Segolene Hutter, Studio Noir
It’s all an illusion, The tricks behind geometric font design
Get insta the groove, Fernando Mello snaps his vinyl
Five things I wish I knew, Elliot Wilson, The Cabinet
Just ad type, The right message in the right type
Tools of the trade, Photo essay: Spectrum Signs
Eastern Promise, The complexities of Cyrillic
Five things I wish I knew, Christopher Doyle, Christopher Doyle & Co
0ooooh, Andy Altmann of Why Not Associates talks all things comedy carpet
Access all areas, How to maximise font legibility
Pressing rewind, Photo essay: Cassette cover design
Five things I wish I knew, Veronica Feurte, Hey
Sketching it out, Timothy Goodman reveals his process
Type on film, David Lynch, Woody Allen and beyond
From the stone to the tablet, Serifs through the ages
Five things I wish 1 knew, Emma Thomas, A Practice for Everyday Life
Mad men, Inspiration from Herb Lubalin & Tom Carnase
A series on punctuation, A look at the pilcrow, dagger & double dagger, “at” symbol, ampersand, and brackets
Forgive us our signs, When signage goes wrong

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Rudolph de Harak designed over 50 record covers for Westminster Records as well as designing covers for Columbia, Oxford and Circle record labels. His bright, geometric graphics can easily be distinguished and recognised.

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The typographic designs produced for the National Theatre by Ken Briggs are not only iconic and depict the Swiss typographic style of the time, but remain a key example of the creation of a cohesive brand style.

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I first came across Kens work in the Unit Edition’s superb monograph, Structure and Substance, published in 2012. Although I had owned a few of the British industrial design magazines, Design, for a few years before, in which Ken had designed numerous covers for.
In the ambitious new monograph Rational Simplicity: Rudolph de Harak, Graphic Designer, Volume shines a light on the complete arc of the exceptionally rich and varied career of Rudolph de Harak, showcasing his vibrant, graphic, formally brilliant work, which blazed a colourful trail through the middle decades of the twentieth century.