@Theo_Inglis

Freelance Graphic Designer & Writer. Author of Mid-Century Modern Graphic Design (Batsford, 2019) and The Graphic Design Bible (Ilex, 2023). Lecturer at BCU.

 Birmingham, England
theoinglis.co.uk
Joined April 2011
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Greatest of all time RIP Derek Birdsall
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Gerald Cinamon obituary theguardian.com/books/2024/m…

Gerald Cinamon obituary

Chief designer for Penguin Books with a flair for pacing illustrated nonfiction, such as with Pelican’s Style and Civilization series

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Wrote about the design of Berger’s books here: theo-inglis.medium.com/berge…

Berger’s Books

This article was originally published by Grafik in 2016, on the occasion of John Berger’s 90th birthday.

theo-inglis.medium.com
Emily@EmilybyNight11 May 2024
How does this book - a book about seeing, perception, art - have such ugly font and design choices? Bold body copy? double paragraph indentation? the cover is just the first page reprinted on the front?
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My Phil Baines obituary is in today’s @guardian - the ink and paper version. You can find online version here: theguardian.com/artanddesign… Thanks to @ThinkingType for her help.
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Dinamo@abcdinamo8 Apr 2024
What's the future of type? Our first guest essay by @erikinternet looks at the monotype monopoly, dafont.com + upending industry models abcdinamo.com/news/the-futur…
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If you are feeling sad and hopeless that is completely understandable, but it's also a luxury we can't afford right now. Here's a list of some great organisations helping on the ground, just as a handy guide:
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Grilli Type@grillitype26 Oct 2023
The (new!) graphic design bible uses GT Pressura throughout 📙✨ Published by Ilex Press via @Octopus_Books
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‘The Graphic Bible’ takes readers through the core building blocks of graphic design such as composition, colour, medium and typography, and explores how each has been utilised and revolutionised by designers through history, and up to the present day. counter-print.co.uk/products…
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ooh hello new @Theo_Inglis amzn.to/46tdmuM
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Delighted that Hatherley’s years-in-the-making essay on Transformers has finally arrived. newsocialist.org.uk/more-tha…

More than Meets the Eye

by Owen Hatherley // Memory, Machines and the World System in Transformers

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‘The Graphic Design Bible’ will expand your knowledge of the world of design and provide you with practical take-aways to inform your own creative practice. counter-print.co.uk/products…
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My new book The Graphic Design Bible is being published by Ilex Press later this month (and Prestel in 🇺🇸 & 🇩🇪 early October) instagram.com/reel/CxLQdjeov…
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🦠🦠🦠 We are beyond delighted to announce that in October we will publish Lovebug, Daisy Lafarge’s mediative, book-length essay about intimacy, the poetics of infection, and learning to live with multispecies ambivalence Preorder now 👇 peninsulapress.co.uk/product…
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Talking mid-century modern graphic design tomorrow evening in an online lecture for the Gordon Russell Design Museum @GRussellMuseum 6pm BST tickets available here: gordon-russell-design-museum…
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Calling fans of graphic design... You can still grab a ticket for our next online talk 'Mid-Century Modern: Graphic Design' with Theo Inglis. Here are some example pages from Theo's book of the same title. You can purchase your ticket here: gordon-russell-design-museum…
Book pages featuring examples of graphic design from the mid-century.

ALT Book pages featuring examples of graphic design from the mid-century.

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Not an ancient statue avi guy saying incorrect generalities about something... casual scripts were very popular in the fifties, thus some of the most famous examples (eg. Excoffon's Mistral or Choc) were released in the mid decade
The Cultural Tutor
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21. Brush Script Perhaps, after Comic Sans, the best-known "casual" typeface. Brush Script was designed in 1942 with the obvious intention of imitating hand-written letters. It fell out of favour during the modernist 1950s (think: Helvetica), but remains a popular choice.
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Happy book birthday to THE STRANGE EGG - congrats to @KirstieMillar! 🎉 Full of tender, unflinching, honest writing on the experience of endometriosis, this pamphlet-length prose poem reflects the injustice of abusive medical systems. 🥚 Available now: theemmapress.com/shop/art-sq…
A hand holding a copy of THE STRANGE EGG.

ALT A hand holding a copy of THE STRANGE EGG.

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I spelled January wrong. bookcoverreview.co.uk is now live! The first ten reviews are up, with more to follow in the coming days (which will be announced via @cover_review first). Enjoy!

The Book Cover Review

The Book Cover Review brings you 500-ish word reviews of beloved book covers – both new and old – from a range of voices around the world.

bookcoverreview.co.uk
David Pearson@typeasimage17 Nov 2022
If you’re interested in book design – and maybe even if you’re not – something nice is coming this way in December. See @cover_review for further updates.
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So thrilled to see my Derek Jarman cover on the annual best covers of the year roundup at @lithub 🌈🪩
Literary Hub
@lithub13 Dec 2022
Judging books by their covers since 2016. lithub.com/the-103-best-book…

The 103 Best Book Covers of 2022

For what is now the seventh time in a row, I am pleased to present the best book covers of the year—as chosen by some of the industry’s best book cover designers. This year, I asked 31 design…

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War Resistance, designed in the sixties by Ken Campbell, a great designer and book artist who died earlier this year theguardian.com/books/2022/o…
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