The seventh edition of the Online Gallery Magazine (The OG) sought to shine a light on artists and visionaries who intersect activism and creative work in new and provocative ways.

For each edition of the magazine, we take inspiration from the talented list of contributors. Our designs seek to amplify their work and personality, to encapsulate their characteristics through colour, layout and typography.

This issue features Eddie Arroyo, Lindsay Adams, Sheldon Scott, Blue Light Junction, Rewind Collective, Nate Lewis, Abby Pucker & Zoe Lukov, Dee Dwyer, Chris Pyrate, Keyonna Jones, Ronald Moten, Hank Willis Thomas, Antonio Gibson, Lindsey Brittain Collins, Yashua Klos, Liz Plank, Paul Stephen Benjamin, and Jeffrey Meris.

Spread with the names of the people featured in the issue, set in all-caps Rama Gothic Condensed

Editors’ note with more Rama Gothic and text set in Freight Text

Opening spread for a feature about Eddie Arroyo, pairing Plakato and ITC American Typewriter

Pull quote in Plakato with more text in Freight Text

Pull quote in Freight Big, with captions set in Neue Helvetica

More Freight Big for a quote by Lindsay Adams

Spread with Anton and justified PT Mono

Spread with a quote by Sheldon Scott in all-caps Anton

Basteleur for Kenya Miles

Q&A with Autumn Breon, featuring an unidentified bitmap-like face and PT Sans Mono

Opening spread for the Nate Lewis feature, using Michroma and Freight Big

Neue Helvetica, Snell Roundhand, and Freight Big Italic on the opening spread for a feature about Abby Pucker and Zoe Lukov

Caps from an unidentified italic stencil face, paired with Helvetica for the Soufside feature by Kalila Bohsali

More of the unidentified stencil face and PT Mono for a feature about Dee Dwyer

Outward and Neue Helvetica Condensed Black for Hank William Thomas

Commune Nuit Debout in all caps for “Dreams Run Big”

More Commune Nuit Debout with Freight Text

Pull quote in Maragsâ

Neue Helvetica is combined with Brush Script for “Tangling with the Grid”

Center-aligned caps from Neue Helvetica for a quote by Yashua Klos

New York and Freight Big for Liz Plank

Bely Display for the opening spread of Max Levin’s contribution

All-caps Agharti Condensed with Freight Big Italic for Jeffrey Meris

Closing out with more Rama Gothic

In 2016, AREA 17 was approached by Condé Nast to design a website prototype for the upcoming French edition of Wired magazine.

A trial issue was edited and send to selected readers but the magazine was eventually discarded and the website rejected.

But it did not prevent the team from AREA 17 to design a functional website, with responsive layout. They had much fun with several typefaces from Production Type. The UI is built around Minotaur Sans, Gemeli Mono and Cogito. Tiempos from Klim Type is used alternately with Cogito for long articles. Other titles are set with Minotaur Beef, Druk Wide and a few other typefaces.

From left to right: Minotaur Beef, Rama Gothic (?), GroupType’s Raleigh Gothic Condensed (?)

This newspaper is one half of my diploma thesis. It presents the fictitious hip hop label Bedstuy which I’ve created over the past six months.

The label represents a lot of different artists whom I like to listen to the most. These artists are split up into three categories: rap (purple), soulful rap (orange) and oldschool rap (green). There is a color code above the logo on the frontpage.

The magazine is divided into three parts. The first part is an illustrative and more magazine-like presentation of different artists. The second part at the end is filled up with all the diverse information about the label, like all signed artist and all releases so far. The third part is not directly visible. On some pages across the magazine you can find photographs taken by street photographers of the late 1970s/early 1980s, including Martha Cooper and Jamel Shabazz. In order to get the whole picture, you need to take out the complete printed sheet. You then will see various pictures interacting with text or other pictures, while reading the newspaper. Once you finished the reading, it is possible for you to have a poster artwork for your wall.

Watch this video to flip through the magazine.

The project is completely fictitious without any chance of being realized in the next years. The newspaper was printed at Newspaper Club.