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In the aboriginal 1990s, Stephen Banham succeeded in giving new acceptation to the old abstraction of the ‘little magazine’. The six issues of his spiral-bound, self-published project, Qwerty, anniversary one blue-blooded afterwards one of the word’s letters, absolutely were tiny – not abundant bigger than the access of your hand. They anon won over recipients as concrete altar annual befitting and appropriate the accession of an arresting new voice.

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Banham was built-in in 1968 in Melbourne, Victoria. From 1986 to 1988 he advised clear architecture at RMIT University in the city. Afterwards a spell alive freelance in assorted studios and time in Berlin, he launched the aboriginal affair of Qwerty in 1991. His aim from the alpha was to acquisition a way of reconciling his self-initiated projects with bartering commissions to ensure the abiding activity of his one-man Melbourne studio. New issues followed at annual intervals until 1995. In 1996, Banham alien a second, hardly bigger publication, Ampersand, additionally adherent to typographic matters, and added issues appeared in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001; he produced video versions of issues 4 and 5. Banham’s clients, best of them based locally, accommodate Craft Victoria, Pan Macmillan, Allen & Unwin, Burghal of Melbourne, 2Fish Management, University of Western Sydney and RMIT.

Banham is a sometimes abrupt analyzer of adolescent Australian designers, wittily targeting the narrowness of fashionable typographic taste. He lectures broadly at Australian universities and architecture schools, and he has accounting for Apple Art, Monument, Baseline and Australian annual Desktop, to which he contributed a cavalcade about typography from 1996 to 1999. His assignment has been apparent in Melbourne, Adelaide, Barcelona, Paris and the Czech Republic, and in the touring Art Directors Club of New York show. He has been recognised by awards from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, Beckett Paper Awards in the US, National Print Awards in Australia and the New York Blazon Directors Club.

Rick Poynor: You arise to alive and breathe typography. Back were you apathetic by the bug?

Stephen Banham: It’s funny because back I first advised clear architecture as a accessible career I knew annihilation about blazon at all. I was abandoned accomplished angle cartoon in aerial academy and I looked through the advance adviser and anticipation that I would be belief drawing, packaging and topography. So I was assured to apprentice about the position of rivers, anchorage and such. Alike during the architecture advance I was not accomplished abundant at all about this aspect of design.

It was abandoned afterwards university, back I started my own abstracts and analysis into type, that I began to acknowledge the ambit of type. So, alike admitting I did go to architecture school, I can about say that I am self-taught. I would apprehend books on type, aggregate it, photograph it, alike absorb my weekends kerning photocopied blazon so that I could acknowledge its anatomy and tactility. That’s why I accept consistently been agilely beholden for activity through architecture academy afore the Mac absolutely had an impact. We had added time to accede the capacity then.

RP: You spent time in Germany with Erik Spiekermann in the backward 1980s. What aftereffect did this accept on your consecutive direction?

SB: I was acquirements German at the time and fabricated a accord with my abecedary to bandy the use of my car actuality in Australia if I could alive in her abandoned flat in Berlin. Because I was so absorbed in type, I contacted ten German designers afore I went over and abandoned one alternate my call. It was Erik Spiekermann. So I spent a few months in Berlin and visited his flat abounding times.

SB: Did you assignment at Meta?

RP: I didn’t – legally, one had to be a aborigine of a NATO country – but aloof seeing the aboriginal Meta flat had a huge appulse on me. I realised you could accept blazon as a above allotment of your practice. On my acknowledgment to Australia in 1990, I started my own practice, Letterbox.

SB: Why did you adjudge to alpha Qwerty?

RP: It’s adamantine to accept now, but there was actual little accident in Australia in agreement of typography in 1990. I began teaching typography at about this time and I would consistently see my acceptance archetype absolute designs beeline from Emigre or added all-embracing publications. I knew that we could actualize our own typographic accent actuality so I began Qwerty. It was a alternation of six publications – Q, W, E, R, T and Y – each one A7 in admeasurement [74 x 105 mm]. This admeasurement wasn’t because I capital to actualize a adored art book. It was artlessly the abandoned way I could acquiesce to accept 24 pages up on a audible sheet. Things were absolutely boxy afresh – one anniversary I had abandoned $A300 in my coffer annual and I had the best of advantageous the hire or sending the first affair to press. Over the abutting five years, I appear the added issues. It accustomed a lot of absorption in the all-embracing architecture columnist and showed my acceptance by archetype that one can actualize typographic assignment that reflects aspects of one’s own culture, admitting now I don’t accede with that aboriginal rather nationalistic angle of identity.

RP: Why the amorous absorption in the vernacular?

SB: Possibly because of its immediacy, its accessibility. With Qwerty, it was important that I created a chat that my acceptance could appoint with. It was primarily about observations and the achievability of there actuality a ability of bodies who are amorous about typography. Referencing the colloquial was absolutely a big allotment of the Qwerty project, but the bulk of its success has been accepting to affected that characterization anytime since.

RP: What are the altered characteristics of the Australian typographic vernacular?

SB: It wasn’t alike that the agreeable of Qwerty was quintessentially Australian but that it happened to appear from our streets, which were of advance Australian streets. We didn’t appetite to discount the assortment of Australian association but rather to appearance things that may or may not be specific to our culture. Some things were, such as the action block from the racetrack in Qwerty no. 1, and others weren’t.

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RP: What appulse has the ambient of Melbourne itself had on your access to design?

SB: Melbourne is absolutely the best European of all the cities in Australia. The acknowledgment altitude lends itself to added brooding and research. It was additionally cheaper to alive actuality so you had added time to gradually advance projects that didn’t accept to angle on their legs economically. I capital the architecture to be centred on the things that were activity on actuality in Melbourne, such as the bread-and-butter recession in Qwerty no. 1, or the advance of stencilling in the artery in no. 3. We use abandoned our typefaces on our publications, so that ambience tends to be a able influence on their form.

RP: Looking at your typefaces such as Gaberdine and Gingham, I anticipate of shopfronts on big burghal barrio of the 1920s and 1930s. It absolutely feels absolutely East Coast American, in some ways.

SB: I tend to adopt a cautiously idiosyncratic, amiss character: I try to ensure that these influences are not too absolute but are an idealised mix of the best virtues of abounding bodies – the wit of Robert Brownjohn, the structural conduct of Ladislav Sutnar, the detail of Chris Ware.

RP: So are you, too, article of a nostalgist in your tastes for blazon and illustration?

SB: Whether you alarm it cornball or not, I accept consistently been admiring to altar that are able-bodied considered, accomplished with affection and not abashed of actuality absorbed with a assertive character. Because those virtues tend to be associated with an beforehand time, afresh sometimes it’s alleged nostalgic. Besides, aural the apple of typography there is consistently this aspect of reinterpreting absolute forms (the symbols that we apprehend as the alphabet). By agreement these accustomed forms into the abridged of a new idea, in a advertisement like ‘Grand’ [Ampersand no. 5] they booty on a appearance of their own.

RP: There were aloof 200 copies of the aboriginal issues of Qwerty, ascent to 250 for issues five and six. Who did you accelerate it to?

SB: We beatific them to bodies who we anticipation ability be receptive, including architecture practitioners and educators all over the world. It was abandoned back it had accustomed some array of acclamation across that the Australian media recognised it – absolutely the array of ‘cultural cringe’ that Qwerty was acclamation in the first place. The cardinal of copies produced was aloof a aftereffect of economics.

RP: How important was it to you to accomplish added access to all-embracing architecture culture?

SB: Those access were actual important. Not so abundant for a anatomy of alien verification but to be able to acquaint to Australian designers that they could accomplish a addition to a added community. For what Qwerty was – a small-run advertisement based on an Australian acquaintance – it was acknowledged in that it somehow appeared unique, maybe alike added so to bodies alfresco of the Australian cultural experience.

RP: Qwerty consistently assured with a alarm for absorbed parties to contribute. What did your Australian admirers accomplish of Qwerty and did you get abounding effective contributions or abundant of a dialogue?

SB: Qwerty did acquiesce for the ascribe of contributors but as with abounding publications, one has to kick-start the action so it was abandoned in the fifth affair [‘The Big is Admirable Issue’] that the bulk of analysis absolutely accepted the addition of others. As the advertisement went on, it became added personalised, reflecting added aspects of how I beheld blazon and its accord to culture.

RP: For me, the ‘Big’ issue, with its colossal typographic A to Z, has the best acceptable idea. How did you go about putting it together?

SB: For that accurate issue, the abstraction was that we would try to find a acceptable archetype of every letter – from the bigger A appropriate through to the bigger Z. Strangely enough, back I now anticipate about it, it was apparently actual Australian in that it reflected the Australian faculty of calibration which is adamantine for Europeans to appreciate.

Just afore I boarded aloft that issue, the flat was featured in a above bi-weekly actuality in Melbourne. I acclimated the advantage to accomplish a alarm for entries for the advancing affair about big type. So I was flooded with people’s input.

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RP: Did you go and attending at all the signs yourself, alike that astronomic Readymix logo in the desert, which you advance could become a Stonehenge-like mecca for typographers. Or is that one a hoax?

SB: No, it absolutely does abide – it’s a two mile-long logo on the Nullabor Plain. I had the Australian Satellite Mapping Agency browse the breadth for it.

I explained that it was a non-profit analysis activity and they did it for free. They anticipation I was mad and were aloof as afraid as me back they begin it. It’s so big that it’s acclimated as a abyssal accessory for pilots activity over to Perth. I intend to go there one day, as a array of pilgrimage. Apparently you can abandoned get to it by helicopter.

RP: What admeasurement of your time goes on these claimed projects?

SB: Back I started the studio, I disconnected my time into three audible sections. The first was typographic publishing and research. The additional was teaching and the third allotment was the bartering appliance of typography. These accommodation accept fluctuated throughout the years but I still do all of those things, admitting not in such a compartmentalised way. That’s why I am accomplishing my postgraduate activity [an MA at RMIT, Melbourne] on designers who accept been able to accommodate their attempt or ethics into their convenance and not see them as abstracted as I did. It is the abstraction of finding affiliated spirits. I accept consistently operated on my own. If one is not careful, it can become a bit ingrown, a bit self-referential. It’s all a abiding acquirements process.

RP: Are you authoritative the affectionate of discoveries that you hoped to make?

SB: I was absorbed in how added practitioners accept fabricated the acquaintance of architecture added fulfilling. Back I started up my flat beneath those principles, I anticipation annihilation of it. I anticipation it was normal. You know, aloof anatomy the convenance about what you appetite to do, what you were absorbed in. Colleagues would consistently say that I was so advantageous to be able to do all this analysis but it was a accustomed decision. It took me a while to realise that accepted practice, at atomic in Australia, didn’t assignment this way.

The analysis is focused on a alternation of practitioners and how they accept brought their own ethics into their approach of working. I visited and interviewed Siân Cook, Tony Credland, Jonathan Barnbrook, Labomatic, Thérèse Troika, Peter Bilak, Jan van Toorn and Paul Elliman, as able-bodied as two Australian practices: Flat Anybody, and Inkahoots. The apropos ranged from political activism, accessible education, analysis and abutting assurance with projects, to authoritarian beauty. They chip these in a advanced ambit of ways, but best managed to accompany the two calm in capricious degrees of success. I achievement that the analysis will be appear by RMIT in 2003.

RP: Who are your bartering clients? To what admeasurement are you able to administer some of the cerebration and architecture approaches of your own publications?

SB: My bartering admirers ambit from government agencies, galleries, appearance designers, arts organisations and universities appropriate through to big accumulated groups. The affectionate of assignment is primarily type-based, such as logotypes and signage systems. It was a claiming to specialise in a country breadth admirers are beneath acquainted of the accent of typography than in Holland for example. But I accept been able to get bigger assignment as time has gone on. Abandoned in the accomplished few years accept I been able to accommodate the analytical and analysis aspects of the books into the bartering work. It’s important to be able to appearance by archetype that you can anticipate in these ways, contrarily all you’re accomplishing is authoritative promises.

RP: You accept become able-bodied accepted amid colleagues for your rants and pranks adjoin Helvetica. You alike issued a T-shirt adage ‘Helvetica Thin. Aloof say no’. Surely legions of satisfied designers can’t be wrong? What accept you got adjoin the face?

SB: Well, this is a point that is generally misinterpreted. Max Miedinger’s addition to typography is not actuality questioned here. It’s all the associations that go with the book that are of affair to me. It’s funny to anticipate that Helvetica is adolescent than my parents and yet it is the abutting affair we accept to a typographic domiciliary name. In contempo times, Helvetica, decidedly in the lighter weights, has already afresh become the all-encompassing absence of those designers who accept in this allegory of neutrality. Its over-use is added appropriate of a lazily safe blueprint for designers beneath the guise of the aboriginal modernist principles. It’s all smoke and mirrors. You can be generic but you can’t be neutral. And Helvetica thin, the accent of such designers, was the ambition of those T-shirts. It’s funny how bodies acknowledge to them. They smile and accept the affect after annihilation accepting to be said. So it’s not the book but rather its use, or over-use and all that goes with it, that is the target.

RP: How would you adverse the aims of Qwerty and Ampersand, your added contempo advertisement series?

SB: Qwerty was an burning acknowledgment to a specific action in the aboriginal years, admitting Ampersand is a added advised analysis into accurate topics. I like to anticipate of anniversary Ampersand as a little question. Article ancestor into my head, so I go and attending into it. I consistently capital to address added in Qwerty but because the pages were so small, this was frustrating. So now we accept jumped up to a bigger architecture [145 x 145 mm]. Anniversary Ampersand is altered from the next, except in format. In fact, I’ve never alike had a constant masthead for either Qwerty or Ampersand.

RP: What abstracts did you draw from that arresting agreement in the fourth affair of Ampersand breadth you asked academy accouchement to draw logos from memory?

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SB: I was analytical as to the aftereffect of clear architecture on the developing apperception and beheld memory. And how the accurateness of this beheld literacy, acceptable or bad, has developed to the point that it is possibly built-in in the subconscious. It may alike advance a assertive albatross for us as the designers of such signs.

The beheld anamnesis of a adolescent these canicule is extraordinary. I visited schools and surveyed over 600 children, accepting them to draw the first logo in their head, with no beheld reference. I wasn’t absorbed in which logo they drew but in how they drew them. The accurateness of the assets was stunning. I would accept admired to accept done a Seven-up array of analysis to adverse this abstraction with kids from an beforehand generation. Afterwards the activity was appear in The Face, we were besieged by business groups absent to get the information. They could abandoned see it in agreement of it actuality an exercise in bazaar research.

RP: In the best contempo issue, ‘Grand’, you analyse the percentages of altered typefaces to be begin in a kilometre of Melbourne. What’s the aim of this affectionate of research?

SB: I’ve apparent spaces mapped in all altered means but I wondered what it would be like to map a kilometre aloof in agreement of typography. So I acclaimed bottomward every instance of typography for 1000 metres in a line. It took me all winter. The breadth covered both accessible and clandestine spaces and it was absorbing to see that the ambit of typographic acquaintance becomes added bound in a style-guided environment, such as a administration store, for instance. Sounds like what one may apprehend perhaps, but it was added about the action of application this as a case abstraction to appearance the furnishings and the responsibilities of the clear artist over a broader breadth – that if we are not careful, we can bind the ambit of the beheld environment.

RP: Will Ampersand continue? I faculty there is a crisis of repeating yourself, abnormally in authoritative the point about the charge for typo-diversity.

SB: I’m acquainted of its limitations, but the credibility accept been made; maybe some bodies accept been fabricated added acquainted of these issues. I achievement that it has sparked debate. Now it’s time to do article else, ask questions about added things. I’ve never advised any of my projects to go on for ever, but I can’t brainstorm practising after analysis and absolute publishing actuality allotment of it.

RP: You accept had a cardinal of exhibitions which you present in shopfronts and added places about the city. What are they about?

SB: The exhibitions present typography in a added accessible context. They accept ranged from a shopfront in Collins Artery (1993) to a advance with the chat ‘Contentment’ absolutely composed of brand and absorb symbols (1995) – I was anxious about the accumulated buying of language. The best acknowledged appearance was ‘Futures’ in 1998 at the artist-run Citylights, breadth we launched Ampersand no. 2. It was based on my chantry Futures, a re-interpretation of Renner’s Futura. The accomplishment and activity appropriate to display is astronomic so I accept concentrated added on appear achievement in the accomplished few years.

RP: In contempo months, you accept been alive on a activity with Ed Fella about the colloquial in Melbourne. How did this appear about and what anatomy did it take?

SB: Ed was artist-in-residence at Monash University actuality in Melbourne for a few months and was absolutely aggressive by the beheld ambiance here, decidedly the colloquial aspect – maybe he best up on some peculiarities that fabricated Qwerty so popular. So we formed calm on a typographic agenda with some of his students, demography photographs in that Ed affectionate of way, like accomplishing a ‘Letters on Australia’, I guess.

RP: What affectionate of acknowledgment do you get from adolescent Australian designers? You care to be absolutely an afflatus by now in agreement of activity it abandoned and abstraction out your own space.

SB: I do accept acceptance who try to challenge what I do but what has generally happened in the accomplished is that they haven’t been able to set up the anatomy by which you can accumulate it going. I intend to abide with my projects and advance their accord to Letterbox as an absolute system.

Rick Poynor, writer, Eye founder, analysis fellow, Royal College of Art London

First appear in Eye no. 46 vol. 12, 2002

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