Textfield, Inc. » Stewart Smith http://www.textfield.org Textfield, Inc. — Publishing and Distribution Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:39:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 MS Sans http://www.textfield.org/archive/ms-sans/ http://www.textfield.org/archive/ms-sans/#comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 17:56:15 +0000 Textfield http://www.textfield.org/?p=4955 MacGregor Harp and Victor Hu, MS Sans

MacGregor Harp and Victor Hu, MS Sans
Softcover, 84 pp., offset 1/1, 6 x 8 inches
Edition of 500
Published by Cheap Art America

$5.00 ·

A celebration of the mundane. MS Sans invites thirteen contributors to explore the potential of the typeface Microsoft Sans.

“Each glyph feels as if constructed from rigid individual bits expressing no empathy for the bows and straights of the other. Compare these letterforms to the negative spaces of its progenitor Helvetica; whence MS Sans borrowed its original file name, helv.tff. Inspect closely how the stems of the lowercase b, d, g, p, and q bend not to their respective bowls. O, daughters and sons of the New House what brother of Arial is this? What absent father’s nose is present in this numeral 1? And to whose crooked grandmother do we blame thine unspinely 8? Yet take no offense. Similar results manifest when a gaze is exercised on your humble narrator.”

— Stewart Smith

]]> http://www.textfield.org/archive/ms-sans/feed/ 0 X http://www.textfield.org/archive/x/ http://www.textfield.org/archive/x/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:00:58 +0000 Textfield http://www.textfield.org/?p=1165 Michael Cummings and Adam Michaels, X

Glen Cummings and Adam Michaels, X
Softcover, 112 pp., offset 1/1, 130 x 190 mm
Edition of 1000
Published by Glen Cummings and Adam Michaels

$10.00 ·

This publication is an initial attempt to examine the trajectory of the X symbol in underground music culture. While the X is broadly associated with the punk scene—in particular, straight edge hardcore—the symbol contains a wide range of often-contradictory meanings. This document presents our ongoing research; we welcome comments, corrections, and criticism.

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