Fuse 4
Print
1992 (made)
1992 (made)
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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
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| Title | Fuse 4 (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Offset colour printing, unpaginated |
| Brief description | Issue of 'Fuse 4' (unopened) containing four A2 posters with their accompanying experimental Macintosh compatible postscript fonts designed by David Berlow, Barry Deck, Jeffrey Keedy and Rick Valicentii, 1992. |
| Physical description | Limited edition 'magazine' in the form of computer software comprised of a card container with floppy disk, four folded A2 posters, a postcard, 6 order sheets, and a 4pp A4 supplement. Printed by FSI GmbH. 1992. |
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| 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'. |
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| Accession number | E.2099-1992 |
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| Record created | March 18, 2009 |
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