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Broadsheet v Tabloid
Around 80 graphics professionals joined Faces and
Fedrigoni for the latest Paper Connection's seminar on Friday 14
November.
Our speakers were David Wadmore (left of picture)
and Phil Baines. Between them they offered personal histories of the
development of type and design in magazines and newspapers including a
trawl through the day's papers. The seminar concluded with a
fascinating and highly topical debate on tabloid v broadsheet formats
for newspapers.
Debate continued over drinks and buffet:
David Wadmore is
currently Associate Head of Design at The Times, working across all
newspaper sections but concentrating mostly on the news pages. In a
career that is more zig-zagged than chequered he has worked on a myriad
of magazines and newspapers from Popular Gardening to The European via
Oh Boy!, The Observer Magazine, The London Daily News and Esti Hirlap
in Budapest.
He entered Fleet Street in time to watch
hot metal trickle out of the door and has steadily redesigned and
revamped papers for the last 20 years, with a slight diversion into
Celeb land to launch Here! magazine (bought by IPC and merged with
Now). The result of course, is NoWhere!
Phil Baines
After
studying to be a Catholic priest for three years at Ushaw College,
Durham, he re-trained in graphic design and graduated from St Martin's
School of Art in 1985 and the Royal College of Art in 1987.
He
has been a freelance graphic designer since 1987 undertaking anything
from humble print work for small publishers and arts organisations to
typographic sequences for TV commercials. Since 1995 has concentrated
on editorial design, mainly for galleries such as Matt's Gallery, or
publishers such as Phaidon Press.
In September 1991 he became a
Senior Lecturer (half full-time) in typography at Central Saint Martins
College of Art & Design, London where part of his responsibility
includes jointly currating the Central Lettering Record with Catherine
Dixon. Currently they are involved in creating a photographic record of
Lettering in Lisbon for the Museu da Cidade.
In addition to articles for Eye and other magazines, he has written two books, Type & typography with Andrew Haslam (London, Laurence King 2001) and Signs, lettering in the environment with Catherine Dixon (London, Laurence King 2003).
