Typography Tuesday
In spring 1999, printer and designer Vance Studley, director of the Archetype Press at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, led a workshop of 27 designers on a typographic experiment. The result was this collection of typographic prints, Mythologies, A Typographic Journey, published by the Archetype Press in an edition of 52 copies. Of the process, Studley writes:
The subject of this book contains a daring premise; one in which typographic forms are used in graphic arrangements of mark and space to enhance the receptivity of the reader. Each designer selected a myth embedded in culture and then extracted a portion of the myth to arrange in purely typographic form. Pictographs, or pictures could not be employed to lead the reader into making his or her own sense of the excerpt. One had to arrive at imaginary or real connections based on language and its visual structure on the page to embellish the story by means of signifier and signified.
The completed work was printed using metal foundry type, wood type, and polymer digital fonts, with over sixty custom-mixed inks. Our copy is yet another donation from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick.
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