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Fuse 2

Print
1991 (made)
Artist/Maker
FUSE (makers)
Neville Brody (designers)
Place of origin
Britain (designed)
Germany (printed)

FUSE was a quarterly magazine or rather a software package in a cardboard wrapper with printed ephemera and floppy disc. It was started in 1990 by Neville Brody as designer and Jon Wozencroft as editor, and published by Fontshop International. Each issue saw four different designers commissioned to create experimental alphabets for the Apple Mac. Wozencroft explained 'often the typeforms are unfinished and in contrast to the usual copyright constraints, users are expressly encouraged to alter/adapt/extend them. This interactive function is most important. In this respect, FUSE is more of a software building site than a magazine. The question is, what can a typeface now consist of? Its alphabet does not necessarily have to be the A to Z'.

Object details

Categories
Typography
Prints
Printed Pages & Sheets
Digital Art
Object type
Print
TitleFuse 2 (published title)
Materials and techniques
Offset colour printing, unpaginated
Paper
Offset
Brief description
Issue of 'Fuse 2' (unopened) containing four A2 posters with their accompanying experimental Macintosh compatible postscript fonts designed by Max Kisman, Gerard Unger, Erik van Blokland, and Just van Rossum, 1991.
Physical description
Limited edition 'magazine' in the form of computer software comprised of a card container containing floppy disk, posters, postcard, order sheets, and an A4 folded supplement. Printed by FSI GmbH. 1991.
Dimensions
  • Height: 22.5cm
  • Width: 18cm
Credit line
Given by Fontship International
Summary
FUSE was a quarterly magazine or rather a software package in a cardboard wrapper with printed ephemera and floppy disc. It was started in 1990 by Neville Brody as designer and Jon Wozencroft as editor, and published by Fontshop International. Each issue saw four different designers commissioned to create experimental alphabets for the Apple Mac. Wozencroft explained 'often the typeforms are unfinished and in contrast to the usual copyright constraints, users are expressly encouraged to alter/adapt/extend them. This interactive function is most important. In this respect, FUSE is more of a software building site than a magazine. The question is, what can a typeface now consist of? Its alphabet does not necessarily have to be the A to Z'.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.2097-1992

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Record createdMarch 18, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O202057/fuse-2-print-neville-brody/
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