Postage and Packing Free - A range of approaches that create typographic design are explored including texture of information; onscreen typography within the context of film and video; digital interface designed to ‘write images’ in a screen-based environment; artists’ books and the alphabet; avant-garde European philosophy and experimental typography.
Detailed Description
publication date: December 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84102-391-5
loose leaf newsprint: 430x290mm
72 pages
£10.00
In this second edition the refereed submissions discuss a range of approaches that create type designs to reinterpret letterforms. Linguistic function is challenged by a process where text loses its narrative role and becomes a texture of information; onscreen typography within the context of film and video; digital interface designed to ‘write images’ in a screen-based environment; artists’ books and the alphabet; avant-garde European philosophy and experimental typography; a revisit of Walter Benjamin’s essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1936), within the context of contemporary Letterpress typography and finally, the examination of the textured intersection of typography, fashion and body in kinetic text.
Includes:
Language Games: Experimental Typography as Philosophy – Phyllida Bluemel
Benjamin, Googlization, and the Withered Typographic Auratic – Richard Miles
The Background Speaks: David Mabb’s Announcer and the Emergence of Information – Emily Rosamond
What If This Becomes That? Mapping the Generative Nature of Interpretive Type Design – Caroline Powley
The Visible and the Legible: Text in Avant-Garde Film and Video – Holly Willis
Letters are Media, Words are Collage: Writing Images through A (Dis)Connected Twenty-Six – Jessica Barness
Kinetic text: The Textured Intersection of Typography, Fashion and Body – Steven McCarthy, Anna Carlson
The Texture of the Alphabet – Michelle Strizever
Edited by:
Victoria Squire, Peter Jones and Esther Dudley
