OCTAVO
JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY 92.8
Multi-media Issue
Michael Burke, Mark Holt, Simon Johnson, Hamish Muir [Editors]
Michael Burke, Mark Holt, Simon Johnson, Hamish Muir [Editors]: OCTAVO. JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY 92.8 [Multi-media Issue]. London: Eight Five Zero, November 1992. First edition, published in an edition of 3,000 copies. A Macintosh compatible CD-ROM [No paper edition] in original publishers mailing carton with folded poster. The CD has never been removed from the carton. Rare thus. OCTAVO 92.8 Multi-media Issue [November 1992] Macintosh compatible CD-ROM. [No paper edition].
- A study of issues surrounding multi-media today, and those that will affect the future synthesis of emerging communications media. The CD-ROM format of this final issue is aimed at an audience of fellow designers and typographers, attempting to raise awareness of the coming changes in information technology, which will fundamentally redefine both our modes of communication and the role of design. Research by Deborah Marshall and Bridget Wilkins. Text by Deborah Marshall. Voice by Rod Arthur.
"Simplicity of form is never a poverty, it is a great virtue." -- Jan Tschichold, quoted by the editors in issue 1.
This independent journal of typography was started with the intended aim of raising the level of awareness and discussion of typography in graphic design, poetry, the environment and art, to an international audience of fellow designers and typographers. The first issue was published in 1986 and the projected frequency was one issue every six months, with an emphasis upon the quality of printing and production. The magazine was scheduled to run to only 8 issues, as the name would suggest. That goal was met, but the time frame wasn't.
"If such a schedule suggested seriousness of purpose and a precise agenda of ideas, this was more than confirmed by the early issues. Two members of the team had studied with Wolfgang Weingart in Basel, and Octavo had a high-mindedness and purity that set it apart intellectually and aesthetically from both the commercial and 'style' wings of contemporary British graphics. Octavo was sternly opposed to typographic mediocrity, nostalgia, fashion, decoration, symmetry, centered type and the hated serif. It was for a semantically determined use of structure and the infinite possibilities of typographic experimentation. 'We take an international, modernist stance,' the first editorial concluded. 'This is necessary in England.'" -- Rick Poynor
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