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Shoplifters 8 — Expanded
Actual Source

This piece is part of the AAVVGG Archive and not currently part of the collection.

Shoplifters 8: New Type Design has been reprinted in a revised and expanded edition.

Shoplifters 8 looks at contemporary typeface design. It features over 100 new, in progress, or unreleased typefaces. It also features an interview with designer Berton Hasebe, an excerpt of a research project and book on the Facit Corpor- ation by Our Polite Society, and a section on real and speculative type design tools by Dinamo. Intro written by Kris Sowersby (Klim Type Foundry).

Shoplifters is a bi-annual publication featuring the work of contemporary artists, photographers, designers, illustrators etc,. Shoplifters doesn’t have a single identity, it’s size, paper, typography, and tone changes each time it’s published.

  • Features 
  • 110 typefaces by over 60 designers
  • Facit AB–Z (Excerpt) by Our Polite Society
  • Interview with Berton Hasebe (By Harry Gassel)
  • "Tools" by Dinamo
  • Intro written by Kris Sowersby
  • 6.75×9.5"
  • PAGES: 648
  • BINDING: Hardcover
  • TYPE: RH Inter by Robert Huber and Simon Mono by JP Haynie and Robert Janes
  • CATALOG#: N04-016
  • Designed by Actual Source
  • Published by Actual Source

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