The relationship between the book format and experimental typographic approaches can be examined from the mid-eighteenth century right through to the most recent contemporary examples. While advances in digital communication continue to prevail, this presentation explores how the book as an analogue format remains an important space for experimental typographic approaches. It shows how typographic expression and abstraction can be utilized as a means to both enhance and disrupt communication by examining how language can be considered as a material for experimental typography. This presentation will consider examples from contemporary practitioners and key works from Pauline Clancy’s own series of process books, which encompass screen printed typographic errors, abstractions, and nuances.
Typo: Experimental Typography and the Book
