Created in the Typography class, this poster for the Rochester International Jazz Festival explores the rhythm and soul of the event through a dynamic typography design. “The interplay of fonts ...

An open call for submissions prompted Jordan’s Typography and Design Systems classes to submit work for consideration. Projects by visual communication design graduate students Honey Gardharia ’24, ...

In 1967, iconic typography pioneer Emil Ruder penned Typographie: A Manual of Design—a bold deviation from the conventions of his discipline and a visionary guide to the rules of his new typography.

The 1980s might nowadays be associated with cheesy pop and gaudy materialism. But it was also a transformative period in ...

Out of the Shadows: The Psychology of Gay Men’s Lives by Walt Odets, Penguin. Design: Tom Etherington The picture placement and framing of the evocative Wolfgang Tillmans photograph used on the cover ...

In a recent post about the timing of cover design in the publication process, I mentioned a colleague’s comment that typographic covers have the potential to wow just as much as those that ...

Jerry Kelly, a book designer and lettering artist, and Misha Beletsky, art director at Abbeville Press, have joined forces to retell the story of a lone roman type, Centaur, designed by Bruce Rogers.

The book’s examination of expressive typography is timely, with Monotype’s 2024 trends report reflecting similar tastes for quirky, deformed or motion-led typography. However, it offers a more ...

Book designer and author Joel Friedlander takes a look at pitfalls self-publishers face when doing their own book formatting, and explains how to avoid these mistakes in the first place.

Describing book covers as a combination of “consumer packaging” and “intellectual concision of a good poster”, Bierut clearly sees value of good book design in 2020. Designers, he says, have responded ...