Issue #401 focuses on wayfinding in urban spaces, on all the ways people orient themselves in cities and navigate from place to place.

Contents include “People and Places,” by David Gibson and “Transitions in Cities and Spatial Perceptions: The Past, Present, and Future of Tokyo,” by Takayuki Kishii; “Developing custom fonts for specific environments,” an interview with Swiss Typefaces; and “Wayfinding design beyond the third dimension,” an interview with Keisuke Toyoda.

This special issue presents profiles of Pentagram Design, Snøhetta Design, PenguinCube, and Travaux-Pratiques.

IDEA is a quarterly magazine on graphic design and typography published in Japan.