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The 8 Faces shop is closing for good after next week

Strange days, eh? The current coronavirus crisis is hitting some of us pretty hard. One of the cutbacks we’re having to make is ending our contract with our fulfilment house in order to save storage costs for the magazines, so we’ve taken the decision to close the 8 Faces online shop indefinitely after next week. If you’re a fan of our other magazine Lagom, you will have just received a very similar email.

What this means is that this might be your last chance to buy 8 Faces, or at least the back issues. I’ve been flirting with the idea of bringing the magazine back at some point in the future, but we couldn’t do an issue 9 — it’d have to be 8 Faces volume 2 issue 1, right? Well, if that happens, we might re-open the store again, but it’s only an idea for now, so it’s safest to assume that this will be the last opportunity to buy “volume 1”.

Oh, and if you do, don’t forget that we’re donating 50% to charity.

BUY 8 FACES WHILE YOU CAN

Thanks for your time, and be well,

Coming this Friday…

I have the pleasure of announcing that the final edition of 8 Faces magazine will be available to order this Friday, 6th June.

8 Faces is packed with informative articles and interviews with high-profile type people, and this final issue is no exception. Our 8 interviewees are:

Fiona Ross 

Jeremy Leslie 

Jan Middendorp 

Robert Slimbach

Steven Heller

Elliot Jay Stocks 

Pintassilgo Prints (This issues’s design duo) 

About 8 Faces: If you could use just eight typefaces, which would you choose? 8 Faces is a magazine that asks this question — and many more — to eight leading designers from the fields of print, web, illustration, and of course type design itself.

Kerning Conference 2014

Kerning is the first international conference in Italy dedicated solely to typography and web typography. There’s a great line-up of speakers, with topics ranging from “Your Grandma Sets Type in Hell” and “The Digital/Analog Flip-Flop”. If you're able to be in Italy for the 4th and 5th of June, we're offering a 15% discount for all readers of this blog.

The final issue of 8 Faces is being printed!

Elliot took these teaser shots at the printers today. Eagle eyed readers might recognise a couple of our high-profile interviewees.