Dot dot dot is an independent, after-hours, graphic design magazine intended to fill a gap in current arts publishing. We are not interested in re-promoting established material or creating another ÔportfolioÕ magazine. Instead, we offer inventive critical journalism on a variety of topics related both directly and indirectly to graphic design. We hope to achieve this by inviting people to both write and design pieces about aspects of visual culture that occupy their thoughts.
The pilot issue attempts to answer the first question 'why another graphic design magazine?' by compiling an encyclopaedia of all previous graphic design magazines of the twentieth century, then examining the most interesting ones in various forms of essays and interviews. Future issues will not be so rigidly themed, though certain areas of interest will undoubtedly emerge. The second and third issues explore more abstract areas of interest: chance, rhetoric, humour, standards, dogma, process, systems etc.
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