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Magnum Contact Sheets: Design # 2 – The Jacket

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For the next part in our Life Cycle of a Book series, Design Director Johanna Neurath looks at jacket design and the development of the jacket for our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. The book jacket or cover, that single, simple printed sheet of paper: its primary function is to $€££. It needs to [...]

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Handmade Type Workshop – Q&A with Smart Emma

Smart Emma

Manchester-based designer and crafter Emma Smart is the subject of our latest Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Read on to find out what inspires her work and what the future holds for Smart Emma. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? Working as a graphic designer I seem to spend a lot of my time [...]

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Magnum Contact Sheets: Design #1

Magnum Contact Sheets - Chapter openers

For the next part in our Life Cycle of a Book series, Design Director Johanna Neurath looks at the design development behind our new Autumn title Magnum Contact Sheets. Wow! Magnum Contact Sheets. A dream project for any book designer. OMG who wouldn’t relish the chance to revel in unseen images from some of the [...]

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Handmade Type Workshop – Q&A with Karin von Ompteda

Karin von Ompteda

Typographic designer and researcher Karin von Ompteda is the subject of our next Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Read on to find out what inspires her work and what the future holds.. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? I think at the time there was something in the air – a certain zeitgeist had [...]

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Handmade Type Workshop – Q&A with Sneaky Raccoon

Sneaky Raccoon - Forget Me Not

Designer Anna Mullin aka (Sneaky Raccoon) is the subject of our next Handmade Type Workshop contributor Q&A. Read on to find out what inspires her work and what the future holds for Sneaky Raccoon. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? I simply enjoy drawing and exploring ideas. Typography seemed like on obvious route to [...]

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Handmade Type Workshop – Natsuki Otani Q&A

Natsuki Otani

Next in our series of Handmade Type Workshop contributor interviews is Natsuki Otani – a young Tokyo-born illustrator (and editor of Illustration Rally) who works with ink to create beautiful and bold freehand type styles. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? Working by hand is more natural to me, my illustration is mostly hand [...]

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Handmade Type Workshop – Q&A with Mr Yen

MrYen

For the first in our series of Handmade Type Workshop contributor interviews, we spoke to Mr Yen (aka Jonathan Chapman) – a papercutting master from Leeds – who tells us more about his work and the resurgence of handmade styles in graphic design. What led you to making ‘handmade type’? I have always been interested [...]

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Turning Intelligence Into Magic

Hegarty on Advertising

Sir John Hegarty, author of our brand new book Hegarty on Advertising, describes himself as a man of pictures and firmly believes that “words are a barrier to communication”. Mel Exon of BBH Labs (Bartle Bogle Hegarty’s ‘global innovation unit’) decided to put John’s ethos to the test by conducting an interview without words… “Do [...]

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Aaron’s Bloomy ‘Fred Astaire’

Aaron's 'Fred Astaire'

A lovely birthday gift arrived for Aaron, our Design Director, today. A print from Steve Bloom of what Aaron describes as ‘his Fred Astaire’! Aaron also has a huge passion for photography and designs all of Bloom’s T&H books – a real dream team. Tweet

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