For me, Dot Dot Dot was most thought provoking and exciting when it was staring graphic design directly in the face, through the visible development of the typeface in successive issues, for example. Or, to co-opt an idea of typographer, publisher and critic Robin Kinross – when the product itself became ‘articulate’. Not that these engagements describe an intention to ‘replace’ the content or the writing, but instead come together as collaborators, a defined relationship with material and form being a way willing graphic designers might begin to consider the idea of ‘writing’.

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