U&lc Issue: 25.2.1

The nature of the type world keeps changing. And any online publication is, by definition, about change. U&lc Online began life as an online companion to U&lc, ITC’s award-winning magazine; from here on in, it will begin a new life, in a new format, as ITC’s online voice. Expect the unexpected. U&lc Online is ITC’s international journal of graphic design and digital media. U&lc Online needs no subscription; it’s part of the ITC web site, itcfonts.com. To read U&lc Online, just bookmark this page and check it out every month.

E-message From ITC The editor says a few words about the newly launched U&lc Online, and about events that matter to the type community. By John D. Berry.

Web Radar/Eileen Gunn: Post-it® Notes is watching you When you break the seal on a software package, you’re not expecting the Spanish Inquisition. Eileen Gunn examines the legal surprises packaged with the 3M Corporation’s Post-it® Notes for Internet Designers.

Phil Grimshaw Patrick Baglee explores the “no bullshit” character and tremendous talent of one of the most prolific type designers of our time.

The Encyclopedic Type Paul Shaw surveys an attempt at the ultimate typography reference book: Typography, An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Throughout History, by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolaus Ott, and Bernard Stein.

Compendious Resource John Berry reviews the latest incarnation of the FontBook, FontShop International’s “Digital Typeface Compendium,” which shows the fonts of most of the world’s digital type foundries.

Celebrating Frutiger at 70 ITC President Mark Batty recently attended a birthday celebration for seminal type designer Adrian Frutiger, as well as a reception marking the release of a new book detailing Frutiger’s drawings, wood carvings, and other design objects titled “Forms and Counter Forms.”

Morphing at the New School A whirlwind account of the Metamorphosis conference on type and communication, held at the New School in May. By Eileen Gunn.