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Film Comment

Identity and website design and development for Film Comment. The magazine, first published in 1962, relaunched in 2026 with a new digital quarterly structure. This new website accommodates the wide range of content published throughout the quarter, as well as the print and digital back issues. They’ve also release their collection of over 300 print issues as a searchable online archive.

filmcomment.com

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The Film Comment logo is a typeable variable font. The weight of the pipes and spacing around them adjust on the optical size axis, letting the logo and any set type using this style to look good at any size.

New features, interviews, essays, and reviews are published twice a week, building up each new quarterly issue over the course of three months.

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The print back issues are available in their original form in a new, fully OCR’d and searchable document viewer.

The full archive of Film Comment going back to its first issue in 1962 is searchable and filterable. Digital issues show up here when they are complete; the next season’s issue takes over the site homepage.

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