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Dieter Rams: The Complete Works by Klaus Klemp

Book Review by Lucas CzarneckiI will not start this review with a rant about the importance for designers to look past their often-limited sphere of specialty, but what I will say is that all designers—typographers not excepted—need to study the …

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Futura by Petra Eisele, et al.

Book Review by Lucas CzarneckiEvery typographer can identify Futura’s geometric curves from miles away. Over the years since Paul Renner designed Futura, designers have put it to use on fashion bags, book covers, event posters, lunar plaques, and everything in …

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Printed in North Korea by Nicholas Bonner

Book Review by Lucas CzarneckiThe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, also called the dprk or North Korea, is anything but democratic and anything but a republic; it is however still composed of people. It is all too easy to forget that—despite …

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Ways of Being by James Cahill

Book Review by Lucas CzarneckiDesigners who wish they were called artists might want to read James Cahill’s new book, Ways of Being: Advice for Artists by Artists. Its title makes it seem like it may be a mundane tutorial or …