Are we stuck with the typographic principles of the 20th century?
100 years after the proclamation of the so-called »New Typography« in Central Europe, the somewhat ironic question of a »new« New Typography emerges—less as an update, more as a question that challenges universal rules. In consequence, this book seeks to unsettle established paradigms by opening typography to an expanded, more inclusive vocabulary. »New New« means not innovation and progress, but rather a reorientation, a new relational standpoint between past and present, to bring forward practices that have been neglected, marginalized, or excluded.
With 243 figures and six theoretical proposals, the book invites readers to engage in diverse renegotiations and re-visions of typography, intertwining texts and quotes with historical and contemporary documents, diagrams, and images. It is neither an encyclopedia, nor a manual, nor a history, but an overview of the impossibility of an overview, inviting speculative adventures that are open to the unexpected and may not lead anywhere.
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Containing works and thoughts of: Alec Vivier-Reynaud, Bänziger Hug, Benoît Bodhuin, Boot Boyz Biz, Bye Bye Binary, Charlotte Rohde, Chris Lee, Clara Sambot, Dennis Hoelscher, DIA, Dinamo, Emigre, Espen J. Aarseth, Filip Blažek, full auto foundry, Garine Gokceyan, Gruppo Due, Hackers & Designers, HAL Typefaces, Heikki Lotvonen, Isabel Lewis, James Langdon, Jenny Holzer, Johanna Drucker, Johnson/Kingston, Kasper-Florio, Katharina Koch, Kiösk, Kushtrim Hamzaj, Lamm & Kirch, Lena Weber, Lisa Huang, Man Ray, Marcel Saidov, Marco Land, MIGLĖ, Mirtha Dermisache, Neo Neo, Nicolle Rager Fuller, Nina Flaitz, Ott Metusala, Patricia Reed, Paula Heinrich, Peter Biľak, PrePostPrint, Primitive Hut, Rick Poynor, Shannon Ebner, soju.studio, Sophie Kraft, Source Type, Studio HanLi, Studio Hugo Blanzat, Syndicat, Tessa Meeus, The Missing Scripts Project, Tobias Hönow, TypeTogether, Typotheque, Vaibhav Singh, Vocal Type, Words of Type, Workbyworks, among others.