U&lc Issue: 26.2.1

Web Radar / Eileen Gunn: ATypI Boston When the Association Typographique Internationale, the world’s premier professional type organization, held its annual conference in the USA for the first time since 1994, Eileen Gunn was there.

Vivisection: Deconstructing “It’s alive!” by John D. Berry A look under the hood to show how we used ITC Design Fonts to create a lively promotional postcard.

The Plantin-Moretus Museum on CD by Kathleen Tinkel One of the world’s great museums of printing, publishing, and type doesn’t quite make it onto disk. Kathleen Tinkel reviews the museum’s tantalizing but flawed CD-ROM.

Type & Lettering in the World Around Us: A Parisian looks at the New York City Subways Paris-based photographer Isabelle Rozenbaum brings her ready eye to bear on the welter of signs and typography to be found in the underground world of New York transit.

Graphic Design in Afrika: Saki Mafundikwa The New York graphic designer who founded a design school for digital video in his native Zimbabwe weaves the design traditions of Afrika and Modernism into a strong new fabric.

Dig We Must! Typefaces don’t truly have “styles”; each style or weight is a separate font. Olav Martin Kvern cuts through the confusion wrought by software shortcuts.

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.