U&lc Issue: 26.1.1

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.

Web Radar/The Elvis of the Internet At a moment when everyone claims that “content” is king in the digital world, Eileen Gunn suspects that the truth is in your pocketbook.

John Maeda at the Art Directors Club/Peter Hall The director of MIT’s Media Lab told a bunch of New York designers to get their thumbs off their mice and learn to write their own programs.

Book Review: The Printed Bengali Character and its Evolution The technical limitations of turning a non-Latin writing system into type are no longer what they were. John Hudson reviews Fiona Ross’s magnum opus on the development of printing types in India.