Simon Garfield

Nov 30, 2024 | independent.co.uk | Simon Garfield

For many years I had assumed that the German publishers Taschen produced mostly fetishistic erotica and massive books about Muhammad Ali, but recently I have been knocked out by some of its other fare – not least the reproduction of Joan Blaeu’s ridiculously lavish world atlas from the heyday of Dutch map-making. This is the atlas that set the standard for all who followed.

Oct 21, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Simon Garfield

On the morning of July 4, 2012, two big headlines came from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. The first was that the Italian physicist Fabiola Gianotti had made a significant discovery in quantum field theory. The second was that her PowerPoint presentation about it had been delivered in Comic Sans. Hilarity competed with outrage: Critics argued that Comic Sans was a font for children’s-party invitations, with a promise of fun and games.

Oct 16, 2024 | bismarcktribune.com | Simon Garfield |Pete Hautman |John Banville |Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is the season when many of the biggest-name writers unleash their latest books. The hope is that they’ll fly off library and bookstore shelves and/or stake their places in the race for honors like the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Here are four books we can’t wait to read:‘Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface’By Simon GarfieldBear with me.

Oct 15, 2024 | pantagraph.com | Simon Garfield |Pete Hautman |John Banville |Ta-Nehisi Coates

This is the season when many of the biggest-name writers unleash their latest books. The hope is that they’ll fly off library and bookstore shelves and/or stake their places in the race for honors like the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. Here are four books we can’t wait to read:‘Albertus: The Biography of a Typeface’By Simon GarfieldBear with me.

Feb 14, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Simon Garfield

Steve Wright in a radio studio in the late 1970s Credit: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images It is Tuesday, August 2 1983, a simpler world. It is long before the iPhone, streaming television, Spotify, podcasts or Radio 5. There are certainly no plans for something called Radio 2 Extra.