editorial design


Editorial design is the design of layouts, usually undertaken in order to clarify or manipulate the meaning of content.

Books 3

Transparency is a study on design and language, Peter Bilak’s MA thesis at the Academy of Fine Arts & Design in Bratislava (1997), designed, written and edited by the author.
In this issue we look at designs from the past that have shaped the present, and designs from the present that will affect the future.
In this issue of WTW we look at inventions as deceptively simple as the shipping container and as staggeringly complex as an intercontinental aircraft.

Articles 19

Tribunal went through multiple iterations in a very public trial-and-error process as the custom font of the cross-platform Slovene student magazine Tribuna. Its key stylistic features were developed to meet the functional requirements of a constantly evolving publication with a limited budget.
Typeface stories · 13 December 2013 · English · 1424 words
Lava was designed to bridge the digital and print editions of a newly designed magazine.
Typeface stories · 5 September 2013 · English · 689 words
Peter Biľak speaks to Irma Boom about how her design practice developed over the past decade.
Interviews · 23 July 2012 · English · 2942 words
Rudy VanderLans talks with Peter Biľak about the Typotheque founder’s education, design practice and experience as an ex-pat Slovak living in the Netherlands. Dot Dot Dot is discussed, as well as the typefaces Biľak has produced and his current teaching practice.
Interviews · 13 April 2005 · English · 4079 words
The third chapter of Emily King’s doctoral thesis which focuses on typeface design in the United States, England and the Netherlands between 1987 and 1997.
Essays · 23 January 2005 · English · 17408 words

Blogs 3

Three years after graduating from Type & Media, Michelangelo Nigra completed his thesis project, which is full of surprising type details that give text a unique character and liveliness.
3 October 2022
Communication Arts publisher Patrick Coyne needed a typeface that would give them the typographical tools necessary to support an international publication in both print and onscreen applications.
17 June 2013
360 is a new Dutch magazine in print, online and iPad edition. The designers of the magazine looked for a typeface that would perform in all these platforms, and found Fedra Sans and Serif.
29 January 2013

Authors 6

Martin Jenča is a founder of Milk Studio based in Bratislava and Vienna, curator and co-Founder of By Design conference and publisher of Backstage Tal...
Toon Lauwen is a Dutch curator, editor, writer and design consultant interested in graphic design and communications concepts....
Jaap van Triest (1957) is a graphic and editorial designer. He designed numerous magazines (Forum, Vormberichten, etc.), publications in collaboration...
Founder, editor and designer of Open Manifesto. Over the past 13 years Kevin has worked as a designer at a number of leading design studios in Dublin,...
Rudy VanderLans is the co-founder of the magazine and type foundry Emigre, together with his wife Zuzana Licko. VanderLans studied at the Royal Academ...

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Typotheque creates custom fonts and typefaces for corporate branding and identity projects. We offer tailor-made multilingual type solutions for a variety of languages and applications.