Letraset Dialogue

Something nostalgic & standardized

Dialogue is Calvin’s creative arts journal, it is completely student run and juried. I have been blessed by being on staff since my freshman year and for this issue I’ve been serving as one of our Co-Editors. Dialogue has such a rich history and so does Letraset. When thinking about this issue and the theme we wanted for it, Letraset felt like the perfect choice. It conveys a sense of permanence—something standardized, something nostalgic—but more so because it conveys the care and weight of something handmade. Sometime in the sixties, a Dialogue staff member cut out our original logo with black construction paper, carefully transferring and positioning each letter.  It’s been digitized, now, but I like to think that the printed logo still holds the weight of those flimsy paper letters, fifty years after it’s debut. I even hope that fifty years from now, when someone dusts off this issue in their basement, these pages hold that same weight.