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As Tiffany Meyers observes in her overview of the 100 winners, one can’t peg 2009 as the year of any specific color or typographic convention. But the winning projects are reflective of today’s increasingly diverse design discipline. In fact, one has to wonder if there is any longer such a thing as a design discipline—in light of today’s fast-changing and even amorphous practice, the word discipline seems a little out of place.
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Type
Find out what's new in type design, and what's right and wrong about it.
January/February 2007 V23N1
There are currently hundreds—maybe thousands—of people designing type and building new fonts. Many are young … and a few of these are already masters of their craft.
Nov/Dec 2006 V22N6
Four experts look at the future of typeface design.
Sept/Oct 2006 V22N5
This time we look at a handwriting font, two interpretations of W.A. Dwiggins’ work, two new sans serif families, and a delightful new roman.
July/August 2006 V22N4
Type can be fickle. After hundreds of projects where the type behaves, helping to create elegantly simple graphic communication, it can suddenly turn on you—making your project look like something hacked out of a tree stump by liquored-up beavers.
March/April 2006 V22N2
Legendary type designer Doyald Young speaks passionately about lettering, teaching, and the circuitous, unlikely path he took to become a type designer.
January/February 2006 V22N1
Rod McDonald’s work as a graphic designer, lettering artist, educator, historian, and prolific writer has encompassed virtually every aspect of the typographic arts. Despite his success as a lettering artist, however, it was 20 years before McDonald tackled his first typeface design.
Nov/Dec 2005 V21N6
Sibylle Hagmann, Teri Kahan, Ronna Penner, Olivera Stojadinovic, and Mira Vucko are part of a new and growing group of female typeface designers. While you may not be familiar with their names now, you soon will be.
Sept/Oct 2005 V21N5
Unlike BetaMax and 8-track tapes, OpenType is a technology that is here to stay.
July/August 2005 V21N4
Type designer James Montalbano talks about Giacomo and Alfon from conception to “birth,” and lends some insight into his world of typeface design.
May/June 2005 V21N3
It's easy to think about type as being cold and technical, just another element of craft. It should really be elegant, not something you'd pick up at a roadhouse bar.
May/June 2005 V21N3
In 1985 purists predicted desktop publishing meant the death of typography. Twenty years later, typography—despite the bleak outlook in 1985—is still very much alive.
May/June 2005 V21N3
We looked at the work of three businesses that turn out very different print products. All are mildly obsessive about type: a design firm that rigorously balances strategy and execution, an author who illustrates and designs her own books, and a traditional typesetter-turned-letterpress designer.
May/June 2005 V21N3
To the degree that a typeface has personality, spirit, or distinction, however, it often suffers proportionally on the legibility scale -- but, of course, it doesn't have to.
May/June 2005 V21N3
Typography plays an important part in the work Robert Valentine does for his clients. This is why he aspires to classicism and lasting aesthetics rather than trendy decoration.
May/June 2005 V21N3
This year we look at a handwriting font, a replication of Albrecht Dürer’s 16th century design, a 21st century send-up to Oz Cooper, and yet another industrial-strength sans.
May/June 2005 V21N3
The founders of Underware—Akiem Helmling, Bas Jacobs, and Sami Kortemäki—aren’t your typical group of type designers. Learn what makes them different from all the rest.
May/June 2005 V21N3
Kristin L. Wolfe interviews Ed Benguiat, the architect of type. His typefaces are his children. In print they’re his music.
March/April 2005 V21N2
Men are demanding their own beautification products, and cosmetics companies are happy to oblige. Designers have responded with with clean, sans serif typography and sleek, but buff, packaging.

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