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CR April Issue

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Posted by Patrick Burgoyne, 25 March 2009, 18:18    Permalink    Comments (6)

Rick Poynor looks back over two decades of the Designers Republic plus, Spanish type case art, Alison Carmichael and our very own Mumbai taxi – all in the April issue of CR

April is our special issue on type and typography and all things letter-related. As detailed here, our cover features a Mumbai taxi covered in typography specially designed for the issue (watch an interview with the artists here)

We also have a profile of hand-lettering artist Alison Carmichael, whose work has a ribald charm that is proving very popular with ad agencies (hence the punning headline)

And a feature on the recent Art of Lost Words show in which selected designers and illustrators each based a piece on a word that is fast disappearing from the English language

Plus, from Barcelona, Jordi Duró and Meri Cuesta reveal how the remarkable ingenuity of Spanish printers gave rise to a unique form of modernist design

And Rick Poynor's aforementioned tDR piece (which, in part, draws on his intro for the ill-fated, never-published-despite-what-they-said tDR book), which stretches over six pages and follows up our exclusive revelation that the studio had closed its doors earlier this year

Our subscriber-only Monograph this month features Synthesis, a series of organic forms created by Jeff Knowles

The April issue is on sale from 25 March. Next month: The Annual

6 Comments

Oh, that's... bright!
action man
2009-03-26 12:02:33


This is so fun ;) Not everyone get's their own taxi graphics !
Pav
2009-03-29 17:03:41


One of the most interesting and crazy typography assignments we had was to collect all the letters of the alphabet from billboards and other such spaces. A major portion of letters was contributed not just by taxis and auto-rickshaws, but also by trucks!! It's an optical feast!
Mahima Pushkarna
2009-03-31 20:43:42


Very cool - very interesting concept. Some stickers of the graphics would be nice!
Amit Patel
2009-04-06 15:40:40


I want that ride......
DB4D
2009-04-09 13:45:37


brilliant stuff!! I'm sure it was loads of fun!
Mehar
2009-09-10 05:23:03


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