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Vol. 24, Number 2, Fall 1997]
The International Journal of Graphic Design and Digital Media, published by International Typeface Corporation.
About U&lc
Managing Editor Joyce Rutter Kaye presents her personal view on collaborating with the stellar designers of U&lc in the July/August issue of Print Magazine. Kaye's "Creative Collaborations" elaborates on the process (and problems) of working over six years with a roster of talented designers from WBMG (Walter Bernard and Milton Glaser) to Words + Pictures (Laurie Haycock Makela and P. Scott Makela).
The Designers
This issue of U&lc is designed by Roger Black Incorporated: Roger Black, Maryjane Fahey, Ariel Cepeda, Laura Eisman.
Message from ITC
The Fall issue of U&lc has as its theme "Type Transformations" including type in print, on the big screen and on the monitor. International Typeface Corporation publishes its second complete ITC Typeface Collection as a U&lc supplement and launches its new www site.
Moody Blues
Peter Hall interviews Jakob Trollbeck of R/Greenberg, New York, who created and directed the highly acclaimed opening credits for Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan. Trollbeck uses the city skyline as his inspiration for this impressionistic visual poem to the city. Documented here are alternate treatments, the director's selection and the elaborate technical process of putting image and type on the big screen. (jakob@rga.com)
Esprit de France
Typefaces created by Roger Excoffon for advertisements in the 1950s and for Fonderie Olive receive a new incarnation in Mistral Light, Choc Light, Banco Light and Bold from ITC. ITC's European type consultant Colin Brignall art directed the British type designer Phill Grimshaw in Grimshaw's light, calligraphically inspired interpretations of the Excoffon flair for a digital market.
U&lc Online: Dreyfus on Excoffon
John Dreyfus is a print historian, former president of the Association Typographique Internationale, and friend of Roger Excoffon. Here is his personal reminicesense of Excoffon the designer, the artist, the man.
Back from the Dead
Design Director of Wired, John Plunkett has not only established a strong design entity for Wired magazine which is also reflected in the magazine's web site, HotWired (www.hotwired.com) but now, he with design director Susanna Dulkinys reinterprets the Wired style and identity in Wired's new book division. Steven Heller interviews Plunkett and reviews a selection of HardWired books.
Site Seeing
Three authors seek out Web sites for type treatments, design and content. Matthew Butterick, from Atomic Vision, San Francisco, not only designs Websites, but is a type designer in his own right. He recommends sites with interesting typographic treatments including www.nytimes.com, www.cnet.com, www.epicurious.com, www.crashsite.com, www.posttool.com and the innovative www.jodi.org. U&lc managing editor, Joyce Rutter Kaye, focuses on travel sites where type and tips play an important part. These are:www.lonelyplanet.com, www.epicurious.com, www.mapquest.com, www.city.net,www.previewtravel.com. U&lc editor Margaret Richardson follows a literary bent to discover prose and poetry in well-designed sites: www.webdelsol.com, altx.com.
ITC Typeface Collection
A 76-page U&lc supplement displays more than 1000 ITC typefaces according to typeface style: serif, sans serif, display, ornaments and illustration fonts. Also shown are ITC Cyrillic faces.
Teaching an Old Acrobat New Tricks
Gene Gable of Publish magazine reports on the refinement and potential of Adobe's Acrobat technology citing that PDF files provide a delivery system for the present and the future.
Branding in Print
Magazines no longer merely provide editorial content in a well designed context. Magazines now are icons for lifestyles and branding concepts enhanced by product and image. Rhonda Rubinstein, an art director at Wired Ventures, looks at magazines from Martha Stewart Living to Wired to the new Blue.
Delivered by Hand
John Berry writes on ITC's introduction of 11 new Fontek typefaces with a strong influence of handwritten letterforms. These include ITC Cyberkugel and ITC Musclehead by Timothy Donaldson, ITC Ironwork by Serge Pichii, ITC Typados by Roselyn and Michel Besnard. Also featured are women designers whose work is included in a special promotion. Brenda Walton created ITC Cancione, Teri Marie Kahan is responsible for ITC Cherie and ITC Surfboard, Jill Bell, a lettering artist who has contributed many ITC faces, has the calligraphic yet spiky ITC Stranger and the "friendly" ITC Clover. Designer Genevieve Cerasoli introduces ITC Arnova.
Taking the Hint
What is hinting and how does it change type on the screen? Matthew Butterick of Atomic Vision provides the answer.
Web Book Reviews
Harold Grey focuses on three titles which explain how to design for the Web, and Margaret Richardson reviews a guide to typography for Web designers.