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Idea mag

Great Japanese design magazine, possibly the best design mag out there today, often featuring articles on typography. It published Typography Today, a book edited by Helmut Schmid that introduces selections from 88 designers. It traces the course of modern typography from Lissitzky, Tschichold, Zwart, Emil Ruder, Karl Gerstner, Herb Lubalin, to Wolfgang Weingart, Wim Crouwel and Kohei Sugiura. The new edition includes art by Neville Brody, April Greiman and Ahn Sang-Soo. See also IDEA NO. 305: Type Design Today (2004), which has articles by

• Robin Kinross: "Some features of the font explosion"
• Jean-François Porchez: "Type design that changed the outlook of Paris"
• Fred Smeijers: "From punchcutting to digital type design"
• Akira Kobayashi: "Originality and Redesign of Typeface"
• André Baldinger: "Succeeding experimental typefaces"
• LettError: "Twin Cities - Typeface represent a city"
• François Rappo: "Didot Elder - Radical revival of Historical Typefaces"
• Matthew Carter: "Yale University Typeface Project"

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Type magazines/ezines ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Type design in Japan ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿