It was almost late. But it wasn’t. It’s here.
The rumors were true. WONK 3 has (awesome, awesome) work from Kimmy Beach,Chantelle Olson, Catherine Owen, Paul Saturley, Catherine Graham, Fred D. Hollands and Colleen McGinnis.
It’s all very exciting. Or, maybe it’s not. You tell us.
For the headlines and author bios in WONK 3 we went with Puritan 2.0 — a slick san-serif by Ben Weiner. All I can say is that it was a stinking pleasure to work with.
Here’s a bit about the font from Ben along with an awesome quote at the end:
Puritan was my response to these influences; it was also a way (I thought) that I could get hold of an interesting typeface without unofficially borrowing from the Typography department. It might be flawed, but it was mine! Well, I learned a lot from the experience.
I wrote a short essay about Puritan as a project in my final year as an undergraduate. Rather than repeat it all here, I have converted the essay (presented as a booklet) into a PDF file of around 1200K which you can download.
In October 1999, I submitted Puritan to the 3rd International Type Design Contest, where it made absolutely no impact.
yes i know we’re horrible and haven’t sent out the electronic version of, well, anything yet. the paper version of the first two WONKS are out. to mostly positive reviews no less (big thanks to both Alex Boyd and Thomas Trofimuk).
our team is now hard at work on WONK 3 which seems to be theming towards travel. it might features work from Kimmy Beach, Chantelle Olson, Catherine Owen, Paul Saturley, Catherine Graham, Fred D. Hollands and Colleen McGinnis! but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. you know. cats and bags and whatnot.
if you have something for the next issue, it’s true, we want it. if you don’t have anything. make something up.