With two UK design magazines celebrating anniversaries this month (Creative Review turns 40 while Eye publishes its 100th issue), we thought we’d take the opportunity to look at some of the work included in our Impact 2.0 book, which features a selection of the best covers created for design magazines and journals between 1974 and 2016. There are in fact 15 covers of Typographics ti: included in Impact 2.0, such is the quality of the design of the Japanese magazine, which also marks its 40th year in print in 2020. First published in May 1980, Typographics ti: is the quarterly magazine of the Japan Typography Association. The JTA emerged out of the Japan Lettering Designers Association in 1971 with a membership made up largely...

Our book Letraset: The DIY Typography Revolution contains a wide range of material relating to the innovative rubdown lettering system, not least a good selection of the thousands of type sheets and catalogues that the company produced. The book also includes a few examples of the advertising and promotional literature that Letraset also made to sell its product, most of which are intriguing examples of print design in their own right. So, here, we feature some of the ads that were created specifically for the Japanese market in the 1970s. In general, Letraset advertising was usually designed to show the versatility and range of the lettering sheets and mostly appeared in various international design publications. In Japan that would have included both Graphic Design and IDEA.  Print ads were also produced to show...