Contents:
Pick of the month
Feature: Playing with words
Creative City: The art of life in Minga
Idea: If beauty is in the eye of beholder, try these!
Video Game: Another piece of Cakey
Motion Gallery: Unscrambling Philip Dick's scramble suit
Vinylation: All you need to know about vinyl toys
Music: Still that jazz

Playing with words:
Pictures may be worth a thousand words, but it is the words themselves that build the scenery for what is being said. If there were to be a war between words and pictures, then typography would be the mediator.

In the language of design, words are the fonts/typeface and pictures are the graphics. Typography is simply a combination of both and a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability than for the potential of using type in an artistic manner.

When a font designer no longer only designs fonts for their own sake, but fonts with particular applications, such as for posters or other promotional items such as catalogues, and a graphic designer will custom-make fonts for specific projects: album covers, fashion campaigns, etc. Where does one stop and the other start?

We invited seven font/graphic designers and asked them this question. Some of their answers surprised us. We also spotlight a film director who has recently made a documentary film on one of the most common font types: Helvetica.

Featured artists:
Cape Arcona Type Foundry
Byggstudio
Misprintedtype
Grandpeople
Neubau
Michael Cina (WeWorkForThem and YouWorkForThem)
Buro Destruct

Dimensions: 9" x 12" (inches)
Pages: 101
Edition: Softcover w/ DVD
Languages: English
ISBN: 9781584232780