And per se And
Fall 2025 · Design Research, Publication Design
Context
And per se And is a speculative series of three magazines that investigate typography as a site of visual and material politics. Last Winter, they were exhibited by Cal Poly SLO’s Special Collections archivists at the Kennedy Library. Curating this magazine was an exercise in connection-making, interactive pacing, and discipline, being completed over the course of six weeks.
Challenges
The largest challenge throughout the course of this project was the compressed timeframe. This constraint meant that some content collection had to happen alongside layout design, and the pace of research was too rapid to produce a polished curation and section format. Another challenge was that each issue has a distinct binding, making layout design much more difficult.
Solution
Despite their obvious differences, the issues remain unified because of their shared conceptual design language, shared content structure, and aspect ratio. The three distinct bindings engage with themes of the collected content in a carefully considered way, while fitting together visually. Across all three issues, the shared visual language is the focus on content.
Deliverables
- FW2027: On Construction
- SS2027: Type as Voice
- SS2026: On Opacity
Final Issues (More Below)
Research / Ideation
^ Creating guiding questions to narrow focus and determine physicality
^ Collecting comparable publication references. Focus on the equal treatment of content on e-flux.
Content
^ An early content collection draft of SS2026: On Opacity. The perfect-binding using PVA glue allows page counts not divisible by four.
^ An experimental art/comedy short film about grafitti removal
^ A book from poem editions about alphabet and early pedagogy
^ A thesis by Sam Scherping about decolonial equity in design
^ A Typotheque article by Chris Skillern, a Cherokee type designer optimizing the Cherokee Syllibary
FW2027: On Construction
SS2027: Type as Voice
Oh heavens! You’ve seen all there is to see.
^ An early content collection draft of SS2026: On Opacity. The perfect-binding using PVA glue allows page counts not divisible by four.
^ An experimental art/comedy short film about grafitti removal
^ A book from poem editions about alphabet and early pedagogy
^ A thesis by Sam Scherping about decolonial equity in design
^ A Typotheque article by Chris Skillern, a Cherokee type designer optimizing the Cherokee Syllibary