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Special Feature: Type Design TodayI
Robin Kinross – Some features of the font explosion
Jean François Porchez – Type design that changed the outlook of Paris
Fred Smeijers – From punchcutting to digital type design
Akira Kobayashi – Originality and Redesign of Typeface
André Baldinger – Succeeding experimental typefaces
LettError – Twin Cities – Typeface represent a city
François Rappo – Didot Elder – Radical revival of Historical Typefaces
Matthew Carter – Yale University Typeface Project
Type Foundry Today
List of indipendent type foundries
Exhibition – Frische Schriften / Fresh Type
When Pigs Design Vol.27 by Kyoichi Tsuzuki
Invention and Nude in acknowledgement to the 40th anniversary of Lava Lamp
Typography Review vol. 5
The meaning of Stanley Morison today – Text by Mitsuo Kohno, Supervision by Jiro Katashio, Design by Yoshihisa Shirai
Shinro Ohtake Original Serial Poster

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