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Phil Baines

Recent articles by Phil Baines

Max’s life is all mapped outIssue 101, Summer 2021
Review

                This book is about far more than Leslie MacDonald Gill (better known as Max) and…
      
The wrong browsersIssue 62, Winter 2006
Review

	It gives me no pleasure to say that this is a truly dreadful book that leaves…
      
A new understanding of spacesIssue 52, Summer 2004
Review

                There are many good reasons why the names of Aldus Manutius (1450-1515) and…
      
When in Rome: eat, drink and talk type (text in full)Issue 46, Winter 2002
Review

                Since January 2001, ATypI’s worldwide membership has had the advantage of its own…
      
Like the 1980s never happenedIssue 17, Summer 1995
Review

User-friendly book of booksIssue 44, Summer 2002
Review

                I’ve long been a fan of Alan Bartram’s writing. An Atlas of Typeforms…
      
Required reading for studentsIssue 42, Winter 2001
Review

Letter rich LisbonIssue 54, Winter 2004
Feature
Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape
Pieced together in AmblesideIssue 81, Autumn 2011
Review

	I’m sure that most designers will know about some aspect of Kurt Schwitters’…
      
Sense of placeIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature
Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history
Looking this way and thatIssue 39, Spring 2001
Review

	In his introductory essay to Ed Fella’s book Lewis Blackwell writes: “America…
      
Central Lettering RecordIssue 15, Winter 1994
Feature
Central Saint Martins' collection of historical letterforms and type samples is an invaluable…
A cast of thousandsIssue 45, Autumn 2002
Feature
The future of type design
Reading the newsIssue 44, Summer 2002
Feature
In an-depth pictorial essay Phil Baines examines the ways major UK newspapers, tabloid and…
Sculptured letters and public poetryIssue 37, Autumn 2000
Feature
Sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs and poet Joan Brossa had little in common but a fierce pride in the…
Times Classic: design analysisIssue 40, Summer 2001
Feature

A design (to sign roads by)Issue 34, Winter 1999
Feature

	As an exemplary rational design programme, the road signs of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert…
Face lift: new cuts at The TimesIssue 40, Summer 2001
Feature

	When technological developments at The Times demanded a change in the newspaper’s typography, a…
The end of typography: slow death by defaultIssue 51, Spring 2004
Opinion
Designing for the partially sighted: misguided guidlines
Type paintings of a digital artistIssue 14, Autumn 1994
Review

	‘For the past five years, Neville Brody and his studio have embraced the computer…
      
AgendaIssue 7, Summer 1992
Opinion
Modernism tried to break with the past; traditionalists embrace it. But any kind of ism is fated to…