James Fooks-Bale

Marrying a playful typographic approach, sensitive illustrations and deliciously tactile gold foil, the cover of The Recorder is a great indication of its contents: a beautifully designed ode to typography and its omnipresence.

The magazine from Monotype has just been redesigned and relaunched with a new approach that moves away from a more detailed, trade-focused look at lettering to a wider survey of type’s place in the world, whether in signage, graphic design or handwriting. 

The Recorder was first published in 1902, and it's been on and off since then. It was more of a trade mag about the new developments in typefaces and technologies and that sort of thing, but we wanted to bring it back to focus on how type is used in everyday life, art and culture. We're looking at how typography sits with everything else.

Its Nice That, October 2014