IdN Magazine

International Designers Network (IdN) is one of the most highly regarded digital and graphic design magazines around, and believe us, it's quite stunning.

Produced in Hong Kong and published quarterly, IdN Magazine caters to professionals, students and the design-fixated alike everywhere. Several years back it slimmed down from a larger size to a more compact oversized A5 book format, jettisoning easier page-flicking for a more dense and immersive read. This is because the magazine's approach is to explore just a few elements or even a single design area in depth rather than to skim a lot more.

Design titles published in this way are all too rare and for this reason we keep a good selection of available back issues to enable designers to create a useful resource library.

Here's the publisher description for the latest issue, IdN 29/3, Display + Decorative Typefaces & Lettering Too:

In the decorative and display typeface world, it seems that size really does matter; even if it looks perfect on the screen, you still cannot be sure that this perfection will pertain when it is enlarged and it may jar somewhat when put side by side with different kinds of typeface. Designers need to pair them with all other types, and in different sizes, just to make sure they will make a perfect pair no matter what size they are in.

In this issue, we have gathered 34 contributors with extensive experience of making decorative and display type, and who have been generous enough to share their tips with us.