
Parallel Strokes Out Now
By Plazm contributor, collaborator,
co-conspiritor Ian Lynam
Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with
twenty-plus contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and
lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a
comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type
design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of
lettering.
Interviews within include conversations with pan-European type design
collecitve Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American
graffiti writer and fine artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers
Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design
eductor Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an enquiry into the
history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally
approved and illicit.
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