Launched by Neville Brody and Jon Wozencroft in 1991, FUSE is the experimental publication that took design and typography into radically new and unforeseen spaces. Now, to commemorate the release of its 20th issue, Taschen has published a complete retrospective of the interactive series that did so much to foster contemporary typeface design.

With its release, FUSE 1-20 revisits stunning work from the past two decades including Crux95, a font designed by Ammunition partner Brett Wickens. Each edition of FUSE brings together four designers commissioned to create an experimental typeface each and a poster based upon a central theme.

“I built Crux95 around the concept of a typeface in transit. A sequence of 1s and 0s, ons and offs, ups, downs and sideways. The shapes started to remind me of images fractured through stained-glass, infusing the font with a quasi-religious aspect. When communication is binary, it has no audience. The process of modulating/ demodulating communication gives it meaning, but can also lead to fascinating, nonsensical errors. Binary pictures corrupted in transit. Words scrambled into machine-induced code. This is the spirit of Crux95.”

Crux95 was originally featured in FUSE 14 “Cyberfuse” (1995).

The special edition box contains select work from FUSE 1-18 and two exciting new issues of FUSE 19 (produced but not published) and FUSE 20 (a brand new commission by the FUSE team).

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We are very proud to announce that Ammunition partner Brett Wickens has been nominated for the 13th Annual National Design Awards in the category of communication design. The Communication Design Award is given to an individual or firm for exceptional and exemplary work in graphic or multimedia design.

First launched in 2000 as an official project of the White House Millennium Council, the program celebrates design in various disciplines as a vital humanistic tool in shaping the world, and seeks to increase national awareness of the impact of design through education initiatives. The Awards are bestowed in recognition of excellence, innovation, and enhancement of the quality of life.

Nominations were solicited from a committee of more than 2,500 designers, educators, journalists, cultural figures and corporate leaders from across the country. Nominees must have at least seven years of experience in order to be nominated, and winners are selected based on the caliber of their overall body of work.

The National Design Awards is a program of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Honorees will be announced in June.

Congratulations and good luck, Brett!

Ammunition is honored to receive five 2011 GOOD DESIGN Awards for our accomplishments in product and graphic design:

• Barnes & Noble All-New Nook
• Beats by Dr. Dre Beats Pro
• Kohler Honed White Campaign
• Kohler Numi Campaign
• TimeTuner Radio Alarm Clock

Founded in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen, Charles and Ray Eames and Edgar Kaufmann Jr., the GOOD DESIGN Awards are widely recognized as one of the most prestigious design award competitions in the world. The awards are sponsored by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in partnership with The European Centre for Architecture, Art Design and Urban Studies to highlight the best new designs and design innovations over the past two years.

All awards and winners are posted on the Museum’s website at chi-athenaeum.org .

Ammunition partner Matt Rolandson will be in Paris, France speaking at Le Camping and judging Hack Day Paris.

To kick-off the weekend, Matt will speak on the subject of "Design and Entrepreneurship" and participate in coaching sessions with startup teams at Le Camping. The goal of Le Camping's six-month acceleration program is to provide entrepreneurs with the best possible environment to get their startups off the ground.

The inaugural Hack Day Paris will begin that same evening with this year’s theme of Build Something Brilliant. Matt will participate in a five-person panel of judges reviewing demos at the end of the 40-hour hackathon. Judged for their innovation, the grand-prize winner will take home €1500 and a spot in TechStars’ HackStars program in Boston.

Matt will be at Le Camping on Friday, November 4 and Hack Day Paris on Saturday and Sunday, November 5-6.

It’s official! The panels for SXSW Interactive 2012 have been announced and Ammunition partner Matt Rolandson will be speaking.

The topic “Closer to One: Buddhism and the Internet of Things” is based on the ancient philosophy that all beings and objects are interconnected. As the not-particularly-spiritual leader of Ammunition's User Experience Design practice, Matt will participate in a panel presentation exploring how humans are being networked into the “Internet of things” and how we can design “enlightened” objects and services that enhance human connectedness. Co-panelists include Sara Öhrvall, head of Bonnier R&D, and Vincent Horn, Buddhist Geek and meditation teacher.

SXSW Interactive will run from March 9th-13th in Austin, Texas. Read the full description of the panel here.

Ammunition has been honored with two prestigious red dot awards: communication design for our work on Kohler Numi. The microsite, including video, and overall launch campaign were recognized in the categories of online communication and advertising.

Led by Ammunition Partner Brett Wickens and Kohler Executive Creative Director Tristan Butterfield, the creative approach for the campaign was inspired by Kohler’s rich history of bold and audacious print ads from the 1970s, updated for the 21st century. Furthermore, the positioning was developed to associate Kohler’s leadership position with gracious technology as illustrated through a cinematic-style storyline that unfolds between a glamorous, young couple – arguing, making up and being alone.

The red dot design award is the largest and most renowned design competition in the world, dating back to 1955. This year 6,468 entries were submitted for judging in the communication design discipline alone with just 608 works awarded. Winners will be on display in a special exhibition at the Alte Münze Berlin from October 7 to 16.

Learn more about Ammunition’s work for Kohler Numi here.