Juxtapose Magazine

+ EDITORIAL
+ TYPOGRAPHY

Juxtpose is a conceptualised design journal all about typography as a vehicle to express humanity. Made for the learner of design, its first issue ‘Mechanical Poesy’ looks at the influence of technology on creativity throughout history. It features excerpts from ‘the Elements of Typographic Style’ by Robert Bringhurst, as well as an article by Michael Dooley ‘Critical Conditions: Zuzana Licko, Rudy Vanderlans and the Emigre Spirit’.The issue’s visual language is inspired by Licko’s Macintosh fonts from the 1980s, disturbance to the status quo, and raw experimentation. It explore’s Ellen Lupton’s idea that “the history of type relfects the continual tension between the hand and the machine, the organic and the geometric, the human body and the abstract system”.