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Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, typographers and designers with studios in Baltimore and New York, have taken a close look a the type of the New York is a city of many museums, with no shortage for creative types: From the MoMA to the Rubin and seemingly everything in between. And while the city is home to the world's largest collection of old posters—Philip Williams Posters—there is no poster museum. Design might come as an afterthought for most musicians—but not Harrison Mills. The graphic design graduate, who makes up one half of electronic group ODESZA, keeps his visual pas*ion alive through the band's branding, album art, music videos, and stage animations. Read Unlike most type designs, the Illitera faces are not meant to be legible. Their idiosyncratic shapes preclude any typesetting use—especially for the people who created them: illiterates. Designers Nicolas Bernklau and Tobias Müller built the 18 fonts with A sweeping tour of the new expressionist gestural calligraphy. From Russia, Brazil, Vietnam, and points between, Fraterdeus talks to 12 of us don't quite remember her. Is that because she was a woman? She might have said so, after rising to become chief art director TypeCon starts in a week, and its program might be the most interesting in the conference’s 20-year history. Most internet-faring typographers have probably heard about TypeCon’s highlights—so instead of elaborating on those, our digital editor, TYPE magazine. 801 Third Street South, St. Petersburg, Florida 33701.