This project is a design concept for ‘Permanent’ magazine. Permanent is a unique and experimental magazine that explores art and
design in our everyday lives. Each issue theme is based on aspects of the everyday that is often overlooked due to being seemingly mundane, ordinary, or common.
design in our everyday lives. Each issue theme is based on aspects of the everyday that is often overlooked due to being seemingly mundane, ordinary, or common.
Issue 1, City Conversations, looks at typography as a method of wayfinding and an indicator of urban flows, becoming a practice urban dwellers use to interact with their environment and communicate with others. Individuals use accidental typography, such as graffiti, to
give themselves a voice and leave a mark on a public space. Graffiti becomes a permanent yet temporary method of communication,
as an individual’s message is immortalised, potentially lasting years, or is quickly removed and painted over. Accidental typography has
a disruptive nature, being inscribed without permission and, at times, interrupting urban flows by muffling typography and signages used
for directions and information. One’s message can be spoken over by someone else’s voice being written on top.
give themselves a voice and leave a mark on a public space. Graffiti becomes a permanent yet temporary method of communication,
as an individual’s message is immortalised, potentially lasting years, or is quickly removed and painted over. Accidental typography has
a disruptive nature, being inscribed without permission and, at times, interrupting urban flows by muffling typography and signages used
for directions and information. One’s message can be spoken over by someone else’s voice being written on top.
Magazine with cover flap
Magazine without cover flap
The font for the Permanent magazine logo and headings is Format 1452 by Frank Adebiaye and Anton Moglia (Velvetyne Type Foundry)