Martina Plantijn
While I am on the subject of type fonts and the writing about them, I am reposting an amazing blog by a type designer, Kris Sowersby, who has designed the font, Martina Plantijn, which is being used for the text of my book of architectural criticism coming out at the end of April. It gives…
A Call to Art
While I was in Cambridge on Tuesday, I wet to the Fitzwilliam Museum’s excellent and informative exhibition ‘A Call to Art’, which is helped by the holdings which came via Sydney Cockerell, its Director from 1908 to 1937, who had previously acted as William Morris’s secretary. I very much admired the design and the use…
Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero (3)
I haven’t been back to the Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero since reviewing it for the Burlington Magazine. I was impressed how well it has worn – a historic palacio, sympathetically adapted for the display of contemporary art, but retaining a feel for its archaeological remains in its basement:-
