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Type: Rider, released 10 October 2013, is a typographic video game that plots the history of faces such as Clarendon, Didot and Garamond, in game format, under the premise that ‘the history of letters is, in the end, the history of mankind’, says co-creator Théo Le Du Fuentes of Arte Creative.

It’s Nice That launched issue three of Printed Pages, with features on Seymour Chwast of Push Pin Studios (currently exhibiting at Kemistry Gallery), Dian Hanson (The Little Book of Butts and The Big Penis Book) and illustrator Brecht Vanderbroucke, among others.

‘Shunga: sex and pleasure in Japanese art’ opened recently at the British Museum, London. The exhibition features shunga or ‘spring pictures’ works from 1600-1900, created mostly by the artists of the ukiyo-e or ‘floating world’ school.

Ewan Clayton has recently published The Golden Thread: The Story of Writing. In addition, he will be running a ‘Drawing letters’ workshop at the Ditchling Musuem of Art and Craft in East Sussex, Saturday 19 October 2013.

Ross Wolfe published a blog post about Soviet board games that caught our eye, including visual examples from 1924-1933.

Karlssonwilker, who recently spoke at AGI Open in London (see ‘The accessible elite’ in Eye 86 and ‘Collaboratively speaking’ on the Eye blog), sent over a copy of their new book of selected works, 15 Projects* in 5 Minutes including commissions for Musuem of the Moving Image, Wolf-Gordon, Mini and twelve others.

Don’t miss ‘Sky Ignition Arts Memory Palace’, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London until 20 October 2013. (Read ‘Wordplay for a picture palace’ in Eye 86).

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