Issues 17 and 18 of the Factor Design Monatshefte (FDMH) are dedicated to two themes that are not very closed to the daily work of a design studio. Issue 17 describes a typeface that we designed 16 years ago, but is especially about the leap in time between its first release in 1993 and the over-worked re-release in 2009. And it’s about all the technical and social developments in that period. Issue 18 is our traditional Christmas issue. It is dedicated to the (sometimes problematic) role of fathers during the Christmas time.