Czerny’s Symposium, issue 001, “Kodoku”

Contributed by Edwin Tran

Czerny’s Symposium, issue 001: “Kodoku” is a 204-page publication that revolves around the Japanese idea of 孤独 (kodoku)—exploring how isolation and loneliness creep into the lives of visual artists, writers, and creatives alike. Select contributors offer an intimate insight into their creative process, share how they find resilience in the face of solitude, and reflect upon the emotional journey they navigate in the act of creating.

Pantasia (Wei Huang / Counter Forms) serves as the primary typeface for the visual identity of Czerny’s Symposium—as seen in the logotype and used throughout the publication across section headings, running footer labels, and speaker identifiers in interviews. Herbik (Daniel Veneklaas / Counter Forms) is the secondary typeface used for all body text. Neue Haas Unica (Toshi Omagari / Linotype) provides visual contrast to the previous two serif typefaces as a functional and unassuming sans serif; it is applied to page numbers, artwork captions, and footnotes at smaller sizes, while blown up in scale across pull quote pages.

The inaugural issue was published in 2025 in an edition of 100. The publication includes a foreword and introduction by Junpei Satyapan, along with contributions from Charlie Broadhead, Dakota Butler, Daylen Seu, Ethan Ming, Lola Dement Myers, Shi Hong, and Weihong Zheng.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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