In the fourth installment of Lazy Blog’s space for type lovers, Alberto Perera guides you through a selection of new and emerging fonts and foundries, which we hope will prove useful for your upcoming projects.
On looking at others looking
Charles H. Traub’s “Looking Good” is a compendium of over fifty years of street photography, a body of work that goes beyond simply documenting public life to ask what it means to look and to be looked at. In the book’s introductory essay, Natasha Chuk explores how Traub’s images build a dense web of crossing gazes, where photographer, subject, and viewer continually exchange roles.
The car faithfuls
Yorgo Tloupas authors an introductory essay for Matteo Ferrari’s photography book “Automotive Monogamy”, exploring the visceral relationship between human beings and automobiles, symbols of status, freedom, and, today, of decline. At the heart of the book, a series of diptychs in which vintage car owners are photographed alongside their vehicles decades after the original image was taken: a photo-sociological project on the passage of time, and on the silent loyalty to the objects that outlast us.
Komagata, wonderful paper
On the occasion of the release of “Little Tree” by Katsumi Komagata, we publish the preface that Stefano Salis wrote for “The Books of Katsumi Komagata”: the text that explains, better than any other, why these books are impossible to forget.
Kindness as typographic style
Can a typeface be kind? For Steven Heller, who writes the foreword to Visual Voices for Change, the new volume by Typecampus published by The Printing Office, the answer is never obvious. From Adolf Loos’s j’accuse against ornament to the floral revival of digital fonts, the history of graphic design is marked by an unresolved tension between function and aesthetics, between rigour and visual pleasure.
The pencil is under the table
Through anecdotes and notes, Fabio De Luca guides us into the creative world of Francesca Biasetton, calligrapher, illustrator, and performance artist.
The objects of his secret
We present the curatorial text by critic, professor, curator, and artistic director Simone Azzoni, produced on the occasion of the publication of Vida Detenida, the photobook by the acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar.
Five projects from the Aiap Women in Design Award
Between the pages of the new volume «How Many Women Are in the Room?» emerge the voices of young designers and pioneers of graphic design — editorial projects and stories of activism, drawings, words, and symbolic objects.
Heart of a Wrestler
The detailed and generous review by Anselmo Roveda dedicated to the illustrated book Marcello by Ruben Rovati. The piece, full of insights and careful observations, appeared in the September 2025 issue of the renowned magazine Andersen.
The type corner #3
For the third episode of the series dedicated to type lovers, Alberto Perera once again offers an overview of some new fonts and emerging foundries.
The Photographer-Driver: Interview with Kathy Shorr
An excerpt from the interview published by Manuela De Leonardis in Artribune on June 9, 2025, in which the journalist recounts her meeting with New York photographer Kathy Shorr, author of «Limousine», in the welcoming setting of her loft in Tribeca.
Marianne Brandt. Dismantle the future and rebuild Chaos
Francesco Ciaponi analyzes the figure of designer and artist Marianne Brandt, focusing on her use of collage and photomontage as tools of political critique aimed at exposing the artificial construction of the female body.
Armando Milani: Five Encounters
In his book «Incontri», Armando Milani shares one hundred stories of exchanges with design icons and famous figures who have inspired his creativity. From these, we’ve selected five of the most iconic encounters—unmissable moments to savor down to the very last word.
The type corner #1
In this column, Alberto Perera is dedicated to reviewing new fonts and emerging foundries that are taking the market by storm.
Designing visual identity
In this excerpt from «Civiltà dello sguardo», Francesco Dondina explores the methods of designing visual identity and emphasizes the shift from the concept of corporate identity to branding, with a focus on the role of the designer in the digital age.
How Mike Hinge Redefined the Graphics of the Future
In the landscape of 20th-century graphic design, Mike Hinge stands out as one of the most innovative yet sadly unknown figures in the world of graphic arts and illustration. He was a person who shaped the aesthetics of science fiction and futuristic design.
Ulises Carrión and the Invention of the Artist’s Book
Ulises Carrión, an emblematic figure of 20th-century artistic and literary experimentation, is known as a pioneer in redefining the concept of the book and narrative. In this article, Francesco Ciaponi portrays Carrión as a multifaceted intellectual capable of overturning the boundaries between art and literature.
The innovative design of the Jenson roman
An excerpt from the opening pages of «The Jenson Roman», an illustrated essay by Riccardo Olocco, which discusses the Roman typefaces used in Venice by Nicolas Jenson, one of the most successful printers of the 15th century.
Interview with Amir Zand
On the occasion of the release of Rêves Entrelacés, the catalog of the exhibition held during the La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival, we are publishing an excerpt from an interview with Amir Zand, an Iranian artist specializing in visual arts, concept design, and illustration.
The type corner #2
In this column, Alberto Perera is dedicated to reviewing new fonts and emerging foundries that are taking the market by storm.
Five books on Wim Wenders photography
Wim Wenders, perhaps better known for his career as a director, has always nurtured a deep passion for photography. His photographs, like his films, tell stories of travel, solitude, and introspection.
The history of Emme Edizioni
Telling the story of Emme Edizioni means giving credit to a publishing house that has played a fundamental role in the development of children’s publishing in Italy.
Five tips for handwriting
Calligraphy is an art that is losing ground in the digital age, but it remains a valuable skill for enhancing concentration, memory, and creativity. If you want to embark on this journey, here are five useful tips to get started.
To the valleys and its people
The Natisone Valleys are a rippling strip of land linking the eastern part of Friuli Venezia Giulia to Slovenia. In these borderlands, isolation finds resonance in a common vibration with nature: a chord modulated in precarious dissonance between immutability and a desire for re-appropriation.
The Picture Man
It’s an existence full of twists and turns that of Gusmano Cesaretti, a famous Italian photographer naturalized American. We want to retrace a brief part of his story through an interview conducted in 2018 by photographer and creative director Stefano Lemon.
The line as a metaphor for life
Taking the occasion of our re – edition of «Linea»,a delightful typographic children’s book originally published in 1999, scholar and typographer Alessandro Corubolo pays tribute to Alessandro Zanella, an extraordinary Veronese private printer, publisher, artist and friend.
The Billboard Liberation Front Handbook
The Billboard Liberation Front, founded by Jack Napier and Irving Glikk in 1977, devoted itself to altering large billboards, particularly those of major brands such as McDonald’s and Apple, by twisting their message with text or image changes as a form of taking over spaces dominated by commercial communication.
The mannequin watching us
Some reflections by philosopher and professor of Aesthetics Andrea Pinotti, contained in Guido Scarabottolo’s book: «I ragazzi del bazar di Kashan».
Make the invisible visible
An extract from the afterword to the last effort of the famous photographer from Modena Franco Fontana, «Invisible», edited by Lorenzo Respi. In sixty years of his career Fontana has photographed what is not seen, managing to fix through the frame an ‘other’ image that is abstracted from reality, free from the subject portrait.
Lettering in cinema
Luca Barcellona analyzes the imaginative lettering used by painters such as Sandro Symeoni or Enrico De Seta. His story jumps from film to film, showing how the application of painting and calligraphy to lettering in cinema constitutes a fascinating discipline.
A conversation with Lorenzo Mattotti
The interview that Lorenzo Mattotti gave for Artribune on 16 October 2020, answering questions by Elena Arzani. The occasion was the recent inauguration of the exhibition «Patagonia», curated by Melania Gazzotti, which was held at the cultural center Mutty from October 4 to November 5, 2020.
Ljubov’ Popova – The fotomontage
Ljubov’ Popova, a leading figure in Russian constructivism and a lecturer at Vchutemas, was active in various fields of the project, from visual communication to textile design to set design, always in a revolutionary key.
Armando’s second step
Some remarks by Mario Piazza in the introduction to Armando Milani’s latest volume, Incontri, where the well known designer collects one hundred anecdotes that have marked his creative path.
«Skid Row». Beyond the urban chic
Consider Traub’s photographs as a counterpoint to the ubiquitous standard and clichéd images of the urban life of New York City: pedestrians in Times Square or throngs of commuters in the Great Hall of Grand Central Station.
In memory of Gerrit Noordzij (1931–2022)
Gerrit Noordzij (1931-2022) died exactly one year ago at the age of 90. He was an authority figure in the world of Dutch graphic design, still little known in our country despite the translation of his seminal text, The Stroke: Theory of Writing.
James Clough: Italian Signs / 3
Discovering examples of Art Nouveau letters such as these on the former Fiori hydroelectric power station in Sarzana is a pleasure, given the relative rarity of original signs of this type.
Design as invention
Alfredo de Santis (1941-1998) defined an entirely personal graphic language, characterised by a continuous intermingling with cinema, painting, drawing, creating graphics with a strong pictorial value.
James Clough: Signs / 2
With the disappearance of so many artistic crafts, it is only natural that we return to an appreciation of what was handmade and has survived.
James Clough: Italian Signs / 1
In order to really appreciate the letters, we show only part of the sign of this historic shop in Modena. Looking at the word “Caffè“ we can enjoy the cheerful, eye-catching movement of that cursive, which is the same for the missing word, “Torrefazione.“
Jörg Müller in dialogue with Giulia Mirandola
Jörg Müller tells how the idea for the book «Dove c’era un prato» came about, through an unpublished interview with Giulia Mirandola.