Jan Tschichold
Designer
Articles & interviews2
- Ninety Years of Penguin: How typography built a publishing icon
Creative Boom’s feature by Emily Gosling marks Penguin’s 90th anniversary by exploring how typography shaped its identity. Through insights from Monotype creative director Charles Nix, the article traces Penguin’s evolution from Jan Tschichold’s modernist rigor to its digital-era adaptability. It highlights how consistent typographic systems built a brand synonymous with clarity, accessibility, and cultural influence.
- DutchScot Refreshes Centre Point’s Digital Identity for Luxury Living
London-based DutchScot refreshed the digital identity and website for Centre Point, continuing a decade-long relationship with property developer Almacantar. The luxury-hotel-inspired site combines accessible apartment information and photography with experimental typography, including a typographic London map, while Sabon and a bespoke Optima-inspired logo type ground the identity in the building's 1960s heritage.