Civic City Cahier series
The Civic City Cahier series intends to provide material for a critical discussion about the role of design for a new social city. It publishes short monographic texts by authors who specialise in urban and design theory and practice.
The first issue from September 2010 starts out with off-the-shelf (Linotype) Times. Civic City Cahier 2 not only introduces a different color, but also a number of slight — almost inconspicuous — modifications to the typeface: the ‘i’ dot is enlarged and diamond-shaped, the diagonals of ‘w’ overlap, ‘W’ has a low center vertex, ‘A’ gets a bent crossbar (as one can find in Romanesque inscriptions). Issue 3 picks up from there and adds several stencil-like letterforms. The typographical metamorphosis continues: For issue 4, ubiquituous Times has been turned into an odd hybrid with Latin (i.e. triangular) serifs. Civic City Cahier 5 interrupts the linear degradation and returns to the third stage, but not without implanting a new typographical interference: ‘wy’ is merged into an unignorable ligature. The last issue from September 2013 resumes the triangular serifs and throws in a ‘z’ with crossbar as well as an alien ampersand.
Formats
- Booklets/Pamphlets (2131)
Designers/Agencies
- Studio Görlich (1)
- Milieu Grotesque (1)
- Last Minute Panic (1)
- Laqshmi Manolete Pellegrin (1)
- Tobias Becker (1)
Tagged with
- Bedford Press (1)
- modified typeface (1554)
- book covers (5144)
- only type (1176)
- book series (453)
- metamorphosis (1)
- Design2Context (1)
- design theory (3)
- urbanism (196)
- Civic City Cahier (2)
Artwork location
- Switzerland (978)
- Germany (3460)
- United Kingdom (2983)
- Zürich (251)
- Darmstadt (17)
- London (1651)
In Sets
- Opaque (David Sima) (10)
1 Comment on “Civic City Cahier series”
Brilliant—I’d love to see this multi-phase distortive treatment given to a few other typefaces.