The National Grid #5
February 2009
ISSN 1177-2468

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Edited and designed by Jonty Valentine and Luke Wood.
Subediting and proofreading by Vanessa Coxhead.

Acknowledgements:
We are forever in debt to all of our contributors for making this issue possible. Especially Wayne Daly and Zak Kyes for taking
a section off our hands.
Thanks to Anna Dean for helping to spread the word. Thanks also to Adam Sheffield, Adrian Pickering, Noel Waite, and Nova Paul.
And to the shops who have paid us.

Edition of 500
Printer: Spectrum Print, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Paper Stock: Munken Pure Cream 100gsm (text), Ambassador Gloss Art 130gsm (colour), Super Fine Gloss Artboard 270gsm (cover).
Typefaces: Wedge (inside), Perpetua, Profil (cover).

Cover:
Based on Landfall 47, September 1958, The Caxton Press, Christchurch.

Issue
#5

Wedge

Bruce Rotherham

Confessions of a Book-Fiend

Author unknown

Dream of the Skyland

Steve Kerr

Preface

Joseph Churchward via David Bennewith

The Aesthetics of Distribution, Part II

Luke Wood, Brian Butler

Tween

Kelvin Soh, Sarah Hopkinson

Tween #1

Kelvin Soh, Sarah Hopkinson

Tween #2

Kelvin Soh, Sarah Hopkinson

Tasman's A's: Lessons for the Postmodern Typographer from Early Dutch/New Zealand History

Peter Gilderdale

We're So Bored With London, Part II

Wayne Daly, Russell Bestley

Tween #3

Kelvin Soh, Sarah Hopkinson

Tween #4

Kelvin Soh, Sarah Hopkinson

AA, Noted without Comment

Zak Kyes, Wayne Daly