In its Summer 1999 issue, U&lc pushes a little farther than usual in the techie direction, with not only Olav Martin Kvern’s “Skeptical Typographer” column but also a round-up of current font-management programs by Kathleen Tinkel. We also take a look backward, at Advertising Arts(Steve Heller), ahead, at Hornall Anderson Design Works (Margaret Richardson), and around us, at urban signage (Lynn Pauley). This issue is entirely typeset (except for parts of the “New from ITC” section) in the newly released ITC Johnston type family – demonstrating how to set an entire magazine in a typeface that has no italic.
Page 6 / Extreme HADW.
With a client list ranging form Starbucks and K2 to Novell, this 17-year-old Seattle-based design firm is poised to reinvent itself. Again. By Margaret Richardson.
Page 18 / Advertising Artstakes on the Great Depression.
In the second part of his series about the roots of graphic design, Steven Heller focuses on how Advertising Arts modernized American advertising and advanced consumerism.
Page 26 / What’s new from ITC.
ITC spans the globe and releases two new sans serif type families, as well four Fontek handwriting-based fonts. By John D. Berry.
Page 32 / How to push characters around. Correctly.
Olav Martin Kvern gives us the ins and outs of the proper use of tabs.
Page 36 / City Signage.
Illustrator Lynn Pauley captures the fading, crumbling commercial lettering found in American cities, large and small.
Page 41 / Making sense of font management.
Kathleen Tinkel surveys the latest software for handling fonts on your Mac, with suggestions on Þnding a product to match your style.