Phil Baines
Recent articles by Phil Baines
The wrong browsers
Issue 62, Winter 2006
A new understanding of spaces
Issue 52, Summer 2004
When in Rome: eat, drink and talk type (text in full)
Issue 46, Winter 2002
User-friendly book of books
Issue 44, Summer 2002
Letter rich Lisbon
Issue 54, Winter 2004
Nicolete Gray’s 1960s snaps inspire a re-examination of the capital’s streetscape
Pieced together in Ambleside
Issue 81, Autumn 2011
Sense of place
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Three new typefaces for local institutions draw on Sheffield’s cultural and typographic history
Looking this way and that
Issue 39, Spring 2001
Central Lettering Record
Issue 15, Winter 1994
Central Saint Martins' collection of historical letterforms and type samples is an invaluable…
Reading the news
Issue 44, Summer 2002
In an-depth pictorial essay Phil Baines examines the ways major UK newspapers, tabloid and…
Sculptured letters and public poetry
Issue 37, Autumn 2000
Sculptor Josep Maria Subirachs and poet Joan Brossa had little in common but a fierce pride in the…
A design (to sign roads by)
Issue 34, Winter 1999
As an exemplary rational design programme, the road signs of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert…
Face lift: new cuts at The Times
Issue 40, Summer 2001
When technological developments at The Times demanded a change in the newspaper’s typography, a…
The end of typography: slow death by default
Issue 51, Spring 2004
Designing for the partially sighted: misguided guidlines
Type paintings of a digital artist
Issue 14, Autumn 1994