Editor’s note: For over 500 years, the center of financial and judicial power in England has grown and remained in and near a square mile of buildings called the City of London. And at the heart of it is arguably the art of printing. From a modest start in a small shop founded around 1500 […]

Berthold Wolpe (1905-1989) was a giant among type and book designers. By all reports he was a charming and convivial man without an ego that matched his high standing among peers. A major revival of his typefaces from Monotype will hopefully also revive the knowledge of his work, and lead to new uses of these […]

I cut my teeth on desktop publishing: QuarkXPress 1.0, PageMaker 1.0… anyone remember Ready, Set, Go? But I was baffled when I recently opened InDesign after several months of not touching it. While delighted with its new performance and new EPUB features (which have made it far simpler than even a year ago to produce […]