Issue 60 of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, the literature and art journal of Columbia University School of the Arts in New York City, was designed by Martin Major Office. The journal was founded in 1977 by students in the Columbia University School of the Arts Graduate Writing program. Since then, the journal featured work from Nobel laureates and unknowns, National Book Award winners and newcomers. Issue 60 is set in ABC Camera (Dinamo Typefaces) and HAL Timezone (HAL Typefaces).

Established by Jacqueline Woodson and produced by Columbia University, the Elders Project captures and celebrates the untold stories of over 250 elders—activists, storytellers, and community builders—who have witnessed and shaped monumental change in American public life. We are extremely proud to have had the opportunity to bring these amazing stories to life by creating this beautiful and colorful project.

The identity for this project required a wide variety of fonts and a comprehensive type family that reflects complexity while maintaining consistency. The Pangram Sans font family by Pangram Pangram was the perfect solution, offering versatility and cohesion. Additionally, the oral history aspect necessitated a font that performs well on desktop, tablet, and mobile versions, ensuring readability even at small sizes.

Cover of Group Efforts. This volume uses Concrete Roman.

From Neil Donnelly:

Published by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, GSAPP Transcripts puts lectures and events into print, paired with texts by faculty. The series design is an exercise in stability and variation. Consistency across volumes is reinforced through page size, body type, and layout. Colors, display type, sequence of papers, and the embossing texture on the cover change in response to the content of each volume. Cross references connect transcript and response, linking passages in each section.

Series format and Preservation Is Overtaking Us with Stefan Thorsteinsson; 2000+ and Group Efforts with Sean Yendrys.

I had a hard time identifying the typeface used for the body of the books, and so Donnelly was nice enough to do the work for me, providing some great insight in the process:

The proportional serif in the GSAPP Transcripts series is Matthew Carter's Olympian, and the mono is a custom face we drew for these books (it's essentially Olympian Mono).

The display face in the Grafton Architects volume is a digital version of this that I drew, based on lettering called Modern Sans Skeleton by John Vinycomb. He was a printer in Belfast and probably drew this in the late 19th or early 20th century. I was after something with an Irish lineage, and I was drawn both to the simplicity and eccentricity of this.

The Group Efforts cover is Concrete Roman, based on one possible outcome of Donald Knuth's Metafont.

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Grafton Architects features Donnelly’s version of Modern Sans Skeleton.

For Preservation Is Overtaking Us, Albertus is used as supporting typeface.

2000+ is distinguished by the use of Antique Olive Black in red, with some custom backward and forward slanting.

The Avery Review is an online journal dedicated to thinking about books, buildings, and other architectural media. It is a project of the Office of Publications at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.

On wider screens, the table of contents is arranged in two interlocking columns, with (first-line) indents for the authors’ names.

Studio-X is an international program run by Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, bridging architectural and planning research labs in a number of cities. Amman, Jordan, hosts an annual workshop and conference whose theme changes yearly. This year’s theme was Response, and this poster was hung throughout Amman to advertise the event, and mailed to universities to raise awareness of the program.