Archive for June, 2010

Character Journals

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June 2010

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The second of two projects that I’m finishing at the end of my 2nd year. This project started off as packaging type but soon turned into more worthwhile ways of making people appreciate type more. The problem is that the only magazines that are about typography are very serious and a little pretentious. The result was The Character Journals, a selection of articles about typography that are aimed at everyone, alienating no one.

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The front cover has a flap that you can flick over to see the entire contents of the magazine.

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The welcome editorial summing up the magazine and what it stands for.

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A feature called Why Did I Start A Type Foundry? on Commercial type.

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Towards the back are profiles on typefaces written by the type designers themselves.

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In the middle the pages get thicker for the reviews section.

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The main article of the issue details the store of Johnston, the London Underground typeface

Split/Second

4th

June 2010

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Since April, or selling Nidzumi, I’ve only penned two reviews. The second is for Split/Second on GamesAreEvil. It’s not a bad little site even if the front page needs a bit of a redesign. Anyway you should read it because I’m strangely proud of this one.

Oh and encase you were wondering the first review was about those men who kick footballs. Digital men though, they aren’t real.