Plinth

Each issue of the literary journal has its own typography and layout.

Role: Designer and developer
Years: 2014 to 2019
Scope: Literary journal, Seven issues, Hand-written HTML & CSS
Industry: Publishing
Team: Garett Strickland (opens in a new tab), Tyann Prentice (opens in a new tab)

I designed the typography and built every page, adjusting the column grid for each issue. Prose uses a consistent reading width, while each poem keeps its own arrangement.

Published by the Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia.

Read the journal

Issue 06 puts the entire journal on one scrolling black page, with Utopia Caption as the wordmark. Read issue 06.

Plinth issue 03 contents page set like a printed broadside: an oversized black display letter, justified text columns, solid black bars, over a photograph of an ice face — Issue 03 uses a poster image as its contents page, with clickable areas over the large letterforms. Read issue 03.

Issue 04 uses condensed capitals, a thin mint grid, and a navy border. Read issue 04.

Plinth issue 07 contents page: piece titles and author names on bracket rules, beside a photograph of black volcanic rock lit from within by red — Issue 07 returns to the first issue’s bracket lines. Each of the seven issues has its own design. Read issue 07.

Brian Evenson’s “The Tower” uses a justified text column with the issue navigation in the margin. Read “The Tower”.

Reading page for Purdey Lord Kreiden’s from Paradise City: a narrow left-aligned poem column on issue 04’s mint hairline grid inside a navy border, with the title block set in condensed capitals — Purdey Lord Kreiden’s “from Paradise City” uses a narrow poem column with an uneven right edge. Read “from Paradise City”.

The tour works backward through Plinth’s seven issues and opens one piece in each, showing the navigation and typography I designed for each issue.