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Experimental Typography
Posted by Claire Bibio in
8 Jun 2012 — 2:35pm
8 Jun 2012 — 2:35pm
Hello people of type. I am doing research on experimental typography for a class and haven't had luck finding good textbooks or papers if any on this topic. Has any of you come across on this topic in books or essays? Could you share your sources? I'm particularly looking for material on experimental typography in book design. An example of this is VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Thank you for your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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8 Jun 2012 — 2:46pm
Experimental typography in action:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Telephone-Book-Technology-Schizophrenia/dp/080...
Also, of course, Ray Gun.
And there's a book on the subject from maybe the 70s, which I can picture but can't track down. I'll work on that one.
Take a look at Marinetti. "Zang Tumb Tumb" etc.
Also, what time period are we looking at? Yesterday's experimental is today's trope.
8 Jun 2012 — 2:43pm
Not sure if it is exactly what you are thinking of but have you seen, House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski?
8 Jun 2012 — 2:46pm
This is a good book:
http://www.amazon.com/Dimensional-Typography-Words-Space-Report/dp/15689...
hhp
8 Jun 2012 — 3:18pm
Experiments in Type Design, by Tobias Frere-Jones. Texts on Type: Critical Writings on Typography, edited by Steven Heller and Philip B. Meggs Allworth Press, 2001.
http://www.slanted.de/shop/slanted-15-experimental
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts
8 Jun 2012 — 3:20pm
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!thank you guys, you are so fast.
well ideally I want to cover this topic from the beginning/it's origins.
8 Jun 2012 — 3:52pm
An interesting article: http://www.aiga.org/the-digital-past-when-typefaces-were-experimental/
Also, you will need to look at the work of El Lissitzky: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky
8 Jun 2012 — 8:23pm
If you want to follow the history of experimental typography, you'd better start by defining what experimental means.
(And if you do so in this thread, it will help us all pinpoint more specifically relevant material.)
9 Jun 2012 — 4:22am
Well, for me experimental in this case means something which is not practical and accepted by the majority. Things which are created through experiments in order for introducing new ways of seeing and interpreting old views. Please feel free to correct me or add your views on experimental. THANK YOU!
9 Jun 2012 — 5:45am
If you're picky, "experimental" might better be used to mean something where the results are subjected to testing to ascertain their merit (something few graphic designers would ever consider). The preferable term here might be "speculative".
hhp
9 Jun 2012 — 7:29am
I haven't looked at Frank Adebiaye's site in a while, but he is into experimenting, as I recall, and I think he has written something about it. Could be shorts in my memory, though.
13 Jun 2012 — 10:55am
Irma Boom
13 Jun 2012 — 11:32am
http://www.typotheque.com/articles/conceptual_type