This cover design was based upon the cover of the British “glamour” mag Parade from 1963. Since this FURORE issue has a feature about the year 1963 in pop the use of Amigo No. 1 seemed fitting.

FURORE #28 is available from furoremagazine.com.

The cover star is Dropje van Fulpen (photo taken in Tuitjenhorn, Noord-Holland)

Filmotype Mason in use for the masthead of De Poezenkrant (“The cat newspaper”). Number 25 of this Dutch periodical directed by Piet Schreuders was issued in May 1979, titled “The Cat Next Door”. Mason, which was copied by VGC under the alias M-16, here is used without any interlocking letter combinations, but a bouncing baseline, two biform alternates, and a tightly spaced NT pair. On top of that, the first N is adorned with a cat’s head and followed by a tail-shaped hyphen.

The article “De” as well as the claim “Katten Smaken naar Vos” (“Cats taste of fox”) are added in a sans with flared stems that has a very similar name: it’s Filmotype Madison (a.k.a. VGC’s G-57). Note the alternate in the double t. Other typefaces featured on the cover include Century Expanded Italic and American Gothic, Vladimir Andrich’s take on Copperplate Gothic, which has an added lowercase and is distinguished by a long middle bar in E, among other things.

The combination of Mason and Madison is also featured on the contents page.

The Dutch Poezenkrant (“Cat newspaper”) is an irregularly appearing periodical since 1974, only sideways writing about cats. It has no editorial staff but is compiled, written, designed, illustrated and published by ‘Director’ P. Schreuders (Piet Schreuders, also known for Furore magazine).

“You never know when it will come out or what it looks like” is a common complaint; after all, the shape and size of the ‘newspaper’ (book? glossy? flyer? tabloid?) are different every time. Still, De Poezenkrant has a large crowd of admirers and a healthy base of loyal subscribers through thick and thin.

Issue 63 features an early use of the digitised version of Alarm for titling. Many Poezenkrant editions seem to refer to other existing publications by design and #63 is no exception, obviously nodding to The Guardian and their recent redesign. Most text is set in Guardian Egyptian Headline and Guardian Egyptian Text. The sans used for information on the cover is yet unidentified. [edit: It’s Retina, see comments.]

Album cover (digipack) for 678 Records, 2014

“Uitgeverij De Buitenkant, 1997. Updated and expanded edition of the 1977 original, with new essays and images of recent graphic work” — flickr.com

With Lay In – Lay Out I just wanted to stir things up a little, and to point to the fact that there were plenty of other things worthy of attention beyond what was at the time considered Good Design.

Make sure to read the interview with Piet Schreuders that Max Bruinsma conducted for Eye no. 32 vol. 8 1999.

"De generalissimi van de Nipkowschijf". Cover design by Piet Schreuders for VPRO Gids #40 (1985). Photo by Roel Bazen. Three-color printing process: cyan, magenta and cyan.

VPRO is a groundbreaking Dutch broadcasting organization with a storied history that goes back to 1926. VPRO Gids is the broadcaster’s weekly program guide that Piet Schreuders art directed from 1998 to June 2013.

Poster and flyer for the short film Celluloid & Cigarettes by Emiel de Jong, 2012
Piet Schreuders chose very well fitting Trio Grotesk by Bold Monday.