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The Joy of Sets
Part 1. Dub Plates 1988. A long shadowed Sunday afternoon in St Kilda, Melbourne. Inside the disheveled offices of community radio station 3PBS, a fresh-faced graphic artist is assembling the next...
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Geoffrey Fawcett: The Beauty and The Banal
It is no secret that ‘mark-making’ crafts such as letterpress printing, risograph printing, ticket writing and signwriting have all experienced a massive renaissance in recent years. Perhaps the most...
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Oddities of Tomorrow
Before the ‘traffic light’ there was the ‘traffic clock’. This dial-based system required drivers to watch the rotating dial to see how much time they have to either drive through (if on the green...
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Young Family
The scenario in the office was becoming a familiar one – a client casually passing by one of the monitors would pause, let out an exclamation of either astonishment or at times pure horror – what they...
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Space for All
Many years ago whilst standing in a student cafe looking at the accommodation notice board for a room to rent, I found myself startled by one particularly striking notice. Its bold headline stated...
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Character of Accidents
During the printing of the 1999 Melways Directory (the most popular Melbourne streetmap), a solitary ant accidentally wandered onto the black printing plate of Page 1A, a detail of the central city....
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Einstein’s turning tricks
The decision to publish something is perhaps not quite as simple as it once was. Now one is confronted with liberating yet perplexing choices of medium — does one produce a website that is affordable,...
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Frold!
Spending the summer holidays on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne, one may be forgiven for thinking that typographic oddities are at a safe distance. But the world of type just has a habit...
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Oddities of Tomorrow
Before the ‘traffic light’ there was the ‘traffic clock’. This dial-based system required drivers to watch the rotating dial to see how much time they have to either drive through (if on the green...
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Australian Typography 1995-2005
On the tenth anniversary of Australian Creative, it seems an opportune moment to recall a statement about the state of Australian typography written a decade ago — ‘Whenever I read text set in Gill...
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Young Family
The scenario in the office was becoming a familiar one – a client casually passing by one of the monitors would pause, let out an exclamation of either astonishment or at times pure horror – what they...
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Ending it with a H
Many typographers view Peg Entwhistle’s extraordinary mode of suicide as a bizarre form of typographic martyrdom despite the fact that Peg was not known to harbour any particular views on type – so...
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Featherweight
If you thought that the bird world and the land of type would never meet, think again. Roman Kingsley, from the Adelaide suburb of Burnside in South Australia recently contacted Letterbox to speak...
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Tall Storeys
It’s a story familiar to most graphic designers: a paper rep calls by the studio, and after a little chit-chat they invariably bring out the latest printed sample that displays their stock and trade...
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The Rainbow Collection
Perhaps the common question asked of designers is ‘Where do you get your inspiration?’ – the answer is of course as open as the question. The observation and collection of things into sets can be a...
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Punctuation Marks
When we were approached by Smith Journal to create a set of new punctuation marks, we couldn’t say no. They asked a fine selection of writers – Peter Carey, Nick Hornby, Jon Ronson and Judd Apatow –...
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Face and Place
Fifteen years ago, I produced a series of ‘typographic proclamation’ stickers which we mailed out worldwide for free. One of these brashly stated ‘Never trust fonts named after cities’. It proved to...
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Cluster
As a child growing up in a 1960s housing estate on the outskirts of Melbourne I would watch in excitement as new streets and courts were created seemingly overnight, and with them the skeletal wooden...
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Utypia
‘Why do we need another typeface?’ It’s a question that anybody who works with type hears a lot. And it’s a perfectly valid question. Why do we need another addition to that ever-lengthening font...
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Polite Signage
Whether it is standing, smoking, drinking or delinquency, public signage forever dictates a series of authoritative ‘nos’ to regulate public behaviour. Letterbox and Frankston City Council have sought...
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