PARALLEL STROKES

Parallel Strokes is a collection of interviews with nineteen contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers, and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices relate in the wider context of lettering. Interviews within include conversations with type design collective Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and fine artists Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, American lettering artist, graphic designer and design educator Ed Fella, among others. Parallel Strokes is an inquiry into the history, context, and development of lettering today, both culturally approved and illicit.