Mar 18, 2008 by Pedro Serrão0
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John D. Berry on Typeradio
You probable know Typeradio, created by Underware, and it´s famous quote:
“Type is speech on paper.
Typeradio is speech on type.”
Unfortunatelly i don´t have the time to hear it as often as I wanted…but today I heard the John D. Berry session, and I advise you to do the same.
(Don´t miss the nice jingle at the beggining 
I specially liked the “confrontation” with David Carson’s work, which I also appreciate very much. ( You can hear David Carson’s episodes also on typeradio)
It´s divided in three parts:
Part 1:
John always starts with questions, everything he does in his life he has come to sideways, he is interested in both words and visuals and does not make a distinction between the two. What good is it to be a designer if you don’t read?
Part 2:
John talks about collecting and accumulating, and how he organises his collections. If you are a collector of obscure literary magazines of the pacific north west from the late seventies and early eighties this could be your chance to increase your collection. John talks about being the editor of U&LC, and how content and design worked together perfectly.
Part3:
John explains how he got involved with U&lc. What he hates about typography and what not to do. What he finds important when designing a magazine. His views on Massimo Vignelli and David Carson. Why not to use Helvetica numerals. What he considers most powerful the written or spoken word.
And who is John D. Berry? Let´s go to the facts:
John D. Berry is an editor/typographer who works both sides of the design/content divide. He is the former editor and publisher of U&lc (Upper and lower case) and of U&lc Online, and he edited the book Language Culture Type, on international type design, published for ATypI by Graphis. He has a deep and eclectic background in both writing/editing and typography; he has made a career for more than twenty-five years in Seattle, New York, and San Francisco as an editor and book designer. He writes and consults extensively on typography, and he has won numerous awards for his book designs.
He writes a regular column about type and design, dot-font, for Creativepro.com.
He lives in Seattle with the writer Eileen Gunn.
He never drew a typeface, but “maybe he will surprise himself someday”.
Jun 18, 2007 by Pedro Serrão0
FF3300 - Issue 03
What are the letters made of?
Alessandro tartaglia tells me to don´t miss the the new issue of FF3300 (219 pages, English and italian).
And I tell him thanks!
Get it here!
Mar 20, 2007 by Pedro Serrão0
TIME Magazine redesigned
TIME Magazine has been redesigned by Pentagram.
As Stengel says in the editor’s letter in the new issue, “This issue of TIME marks a new beginning. The magazine has a new look and structure. Every issue of TIME tells a larger story about the world we live in, and we wanted to create a design that would best present that story.”
“The magazine has been modernized,” Hayman agrees, “but it still has the TIME ‘DNA.’ We deliberately chose fonts and design elements that echo classic TIME magazine.” During the redesign process, Hayman worked closely with TIME’s in-house team, including Stengel, Hochstein and deputy art directors Cynthia Hoffman and D.W. Pine.
Paula Scher, who collaborated with Hayman on the redesign prototype, explained part of the thought process behind the project. “We created a system that we thought would resonate with today’s readers. It’s full of quick bits and relevant info, but still retains the spirit of TIME. We used the display typeface Franklin Gothic that was part of the history of the magazine, and revisited the grid used by Walter Bernard,” the legendary editorial designer.
Source: Pentagram’s Blog.
Mar 18, 2007 by Pedro Serrão0
A0 Magazine
Matt Micjaluk shows us A0 Magazine.
Each edition is a photographic journal of day trips to different destinations around Great Britain.
The magazine is made from 5 A0 photocopies which are then french-folded and stitched down the spine. the first edition photograped in western-super-mare has been blessed with fluro orange type.
The magazine is a collaboration with Adam Tickle, Alistair Webb and Kristina Grundberg.
Mar 2, 2007 by Pedro Serrão1
Double Page - A LiveJournal Community
Very worthy browsing material at LiveJournal community Douple Page, with lots of links to a variety of magazines.
Source: Maquetadores.
Mar 1, 2007 by Pedro Serrão0
The 51 Best* Magazines Ever
Good magazine has a great article on the *Smartest, Prettiest, Coolest, Funniest, Most Influential, Most Necessary, Most Important, Most Essential, Magazines.
Feb 22, 2007 by Pedro Serrão0
Acido Surtido
From Buenos Aires, Argentina, comes a great multi-disciplinary magazine:
Acido Surtido is a publication on art and design distributed for free in the whole country (Argentina). The first issue of Acido Surtido was published in 2001, as an answer to the lack of action and the downhearted feelings that was threatening the national cultural production in those days. Trying to take over collective construction common places, Acido Surtido opens itself to other voices, getting together in order to share. A kind of generosity is underlying: those who offer the place, those who give their work, those who receive it and make its sense. There are some other principles. Avoiding commercialization and production paraphernalia that could make its cooperation spirit strange and move towards massive circulation. Betting on the quality of its contents secretly hoping to achieve fulfillment. In a nut shell: find the difficult balance between a high level publication and a self-produced fanzine.
Our collaborators come from different disciplines, but they are mostly linked to visual arts: designers, photographers, illustrators, fine arts artists. However, throughout our issues there has been a heterogeneous universe which also includes writers and poets together with other collaborators who could have hardly had the opportunity to develop project-like experiences.
Source: Slanted
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