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The Typography Issue
Ten page special feature on Neville Brody's and Jon Wozencroft's high influential publication Fuse, charity ads get personal, Marina Willer joins Pentagram London, and a collection of beautiful vintage train tickets
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Revert to typeIn 1991 , the emergence of new digital technologies was opening up the design of typefaces to a generation keen to push the limits of language and the very definition of what a font could be. Fuse, the experimental publication launched that year by Jon Wozencroft and Neville Brody, gave such designers a platform. As a new book brings together its 18 issues in one volume, Mark Sinclair reviews Fuse’s important, perhaps overlooked, contribution to graphic design
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Up steps WillerAfter 13 years at Wolff Olins, Marina Willer is to become Pentagram London’s first female partner. The Brazilian-born designer and film-maker talks about the challenge ahead and the lack of women in senior design positions
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Personal appealThe rise of digital media has seen subtlety replace shock in charity advertising, as agencies employ more personal approaches to engage potential donors
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A new vision for MicrosoftWhen distressed and wildly experimental typography were all the rage, Chris Ashworth made his name as an emerging UK print designer. These days, however, he is leading the creation of the Microsoft Windows Phone brand. Patrick Burgoyne reports on his new role and its connection to the introduction of a radical new design philosophy that Microsoft is adopting across its products
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