David Wild was invited to make a collage for the cover (front and back) of the 100th issue of the magazine Architecture Today (July 1999). His brief was to show 18 of the building projects featured in the preceding 99 issues of the magazine: readers were then invited to identify the buildings. The result is more of a patchwork image than he usually makes; but the piece is held together by a dream-like connecting thread. Inside the magazine, Wild is among the people asked in a symposium ‘where in the world would you choose to go back to?’ His answer: the Norris Dam, Tennessee, USA, remembering his trip there last year (see 14.08.1998, below).

In the September issue of the magazine Lingua Franca (the bright and irreverent ‘review of academic life’, published from New York), the topic of the ‘breakthrough books’ column was design: ‘we asked five graphic designers to tell us about the best books in their field.’ One of them, Robin Kinross – evidently fed up with design – chose Benedict Anderson’s Imagined communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism and Jack Goody’s The domestication of the savage mind. Another, Steven Heller, greedily chose four books, one of which was Kinross’s Modern typography.

We are working hard towards publication of the next books, Anthony Froshaug and Typeform dialogues. They will appear in 2000. Please have patience, and understanding for the sisyphean labours of the small publisher. The wait will be worth it, we are sure. Beyond these books, we are planning a series of small-format paperbacks that will include a revised edition of What is a designer, a new edition of Modern typography, and other texts that have proved themselves.