"Parallel Strokes" is a collection of interviews with nineteen contemporary typeface designers, graffiti writers and lettering artists around the world. The book is introduced with a comprehensive essay charting the history of graffiti, its relation to type design, and how the two practices related in the wider context of lettering.
There are interviews with the type design collective Underware, Japanese type designer Akira Kobayashi, American graffiti writer and artist Barry McGee/Twist, German graffiti writers Daim and Seak, and the American lettering artist and graphic designer Ed Fella.