PUBLISHED 8 Feb 2011 - 11:35am
Sarah Hyndman of With Relish was one of the winners of last year's one-hour typography competition. She's has just designed a visual theme for the Philharmonia Orchestra’s autumn season of work, which will be publicly unveiled this week. With Relish have been working with the Philharmonia Orchestra since 2006, creating visual themes for each season.
Vanessa Williams, Senior Marketing Manager at the Philharmonia Orchestra commented, “We’re really pleased with the identity With Relish has created for our new season: it’s high contrast, dramatic and conveys everything we want to communicate... More
PUBLISHED 29 Nov 2010 - 3:04pm
There is something about type going around. There was the Letterpress: Forward Thinking event a couple of weeks ago at St Brides, and Simon Garfield's book on fonts, Just My Type looking like being a Christmas hit. I notice too that with 18 days still to go on Kickstarter, Linotype: The Film has already raised $6,356 over its target.
The documentary, which is due to be finished next year, is a paen to Ottmar Mergenthaler's 1886 machine which revolutionised print and which Fleet Street relied on for 100 years until new digital print technology swept this remarkable invention out of... More
PUBLISHED 26 Jul 2010 - 10:21pm
This September the London Design Festival will be eight years old. In what seems like an incredibly short space of time it's grown from around 40 events to the size it is today, hosting around 230 events right across London. Over the next few weeks in the run up to this year's Festival, we're going to remind ourselves of some of the milestones. This was one of them. 26 Letters in 2004 started with a simple request from the British Library.
Sir John Sorrell remembers how it came about: 'The British Library came to us and said they would like to take part in the Festival. One of the... More
