Watford doesn’t have many architectural features, but the one building of any merit it does have is its college. Erected in the 1930s it as good a building as you’ll find in the town. Significant too that is was, for over half a century, home to one of the best schools of printing in the country. But...

I have just been made an Honorary Research Fellow at Birmingham Institute of Art & Design, (part of Birmingham City University), which used to be the Birmingham School of Arts & Crafts. Here I will be mentoring staff and research students and helping build up the typography element within the...