Category: Magazine Article
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1999: “The Cheap State of Type” in Inform Magazine
I wrote an article about control in typography and design. Also includes publication of the poem, “In Praise of Suffering”
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1998: “Calorie Count” in Emigre 46
CALORIE COUNTZine Publishers & Ideal Economic Strategies for the Next Capitalist Century The zine publishing movement is one of the bona fide bust-out cultural movements of the 1990s. Though American zines trace their roots back to mimeographed sci-fi publications of the 1940s, the current mix of personal, non-traditional sex, fringe political, punk music, Jesus freak…
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1997: “TRUT: The Star, The Globe, and the Missing H in the New Veracity” in Emigre 41
I wrote this essay for Emigre 41, The Magazine Issue (1997). It also appeared in my 2003 book, Economics. In this essay, I coined the word, “trut”.
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1996: Bosnian Typography Essay in Emigre 38
Using a new font to call for an accounting.
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1996: “Joint Venture” in Emigre 37
This essay lays the rationale behind a new approach to the writer/designer relationship based on the ownership of intellectual property. This approach begins with a change in the way we describe dual artistic product and advocates a change in the structure of shared ownership and credit. It proposes a linguistic change to reflect a switch…