Comments on: U&lc: Influencing design and typography

By: Jay Rutherford

Jay Rutherford — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 15:03:39 +0000

I worked at a typesetting house in Ottawa, Canada in the early 70s and was the one who got to keep the U&lc issues (I seem to be the only one who was interested). After I left that place I tried to keep up my subscription – not always successful, but I managed to collect most of them. There are a few holes in my collection, but I have a number of doubles, even triples, due to unintentional multiple subscriptions, and would be willing to trade, if possible. Here are the ones I’m missing:

1979, Vol. 6 Nos. 1 & 3
1989, Vol. 16 Nos. 3 & 4
1991, Vol. 18 Nos. 1, 3 & 4
1992, Vol. 19 No. 2
1994, Vol. 21 No. 4

Anyone have any of these to trade or sell?

By: Larry Smith

Larry Smith — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:25:02 +0000

I have a collection of approx (70) issues from 1975-1998. General condition is excellent with slight yellowing (newsprint). Would like to sell. I’m in process of researching their value.

Also have a 1st Anniversary issue 1969 of AvantGarde with slight damage to lower edge. Also not sure of value for collectors yet.

icfives@yahoo.com if anyone interested….. thanks

By: Sarang Kulkarni

Sarang Kulkarni — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:57:20 +0000

Hi John Morton,

I would like to have the old U&lc copies. is there any way i can get those to study. that will help a lot. :)

By: Ed Marsh

Ed Marsh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:44:09 +0000

I had a number of issues from the 80s and 90s and in a fit of “organizing” they were thrown away. Fantastic magazine, but printed on lousy paper as they went yellow and brittle quicker than a newspaper. But still–

What was I thinking? Throw them away? Sacrilege. I now have to live with that shame.

Not a day goes by…

By: Robbie Reddy

Robbie Reddy — Fri, 28 May 2010 23:57:35 +0000

For some reason my dad, an engineer, started getting U&lc at work. In 1973 I was 13. My dad brought them home for me and it started a life long love of design. I kept them under my bed for years and they went through countless moves with me. I did hang onto them well into my 20′s. I still think of the publications with fondness and nostalgia!

By: Darla Moore

Darla Moore — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:42:57 +0000

I was one of those lucky people who wound up with a collection of U&lc when I taught art in a Chicago suburb. I was glad to pass some great ezamples of typography to my students and have such a wonderful resource with which to do so.

Is there anything like it for those of us no longer in the know of what’s going on in the industry?

I even left my collection which I now miss.

By: Charlie Sweeny

Charlie Sweeny — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:07:58 +0000

I started my subscription to U&lc back in the ’70s, while as a graphic design undergrad student at San Jose State University in California.

There, under the tutelage of the late Bill Hyde (calligrapher who developed the Anchor Steam Beer trademark), and Paul Sinn (a fantastically fanatical typographer who used to draw his own fonts by hand), I developed a keen love for good typography…still using what I was taught some 32 years later.

I’ve kept all my issues of U&lc.

By: Tomi from Suomi

Tomi from Suomi — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:52:57 +0000

I truly wish that someone would do that kind of magazine again. I have some copies in my bookshelf, but now, with more new designs, coming along, this sort of publication would be brilliant.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:27:30 +0000

I was an art student in London the 1980s and students could take out a free subscription! I am sure I have kept them along with my copies of NME…

By: Allan Arima

Allan Arima — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:29:44 +0000

I worked at a large advertising typographic firm and U&lc was THE magazine I looked forword to the most. I still have a few original copies and time to time, I read and enjoy them just as if they were new.