Posts tagged Typography

Edward Ruscha, Etc. #207, 1991, Lithograph (more…)

Edward Ruscha, Etc. #207, 1991, Lithograph (more…)

Tauba Auerbach, Frequency, 10,000 pieces cut letters on paper, 2005

Tauba Auerbach, Frequency, 10,000 pieces cut letters on paper, 2005

“A Picture breaks down a digital photo into its component parts, the source code. The entire body of information contained in the now indecipherable picture is bound into a book.” Ruben Aubrecht, In Other Words…? A Picture (2004), 253 pages

“A Picture breaks down a digital photo into its component parts, the source code. The entire body of information contained in the now indecipherable picture is bound into a book.”

Ruben Aubrecht, In Other Words…? A Picture (2004), 253 pages

Based on a diary entry by the Russian poet Daniil Kharms [more info. on a free .PDF here] o.T. (Today I wrote Nothing / Daniil Kharms), Natalie Czech (2009) [+]

Based on a diary entry by the Russian poet Daniil Kharms

[more info. on a free .PDF here]

o.T. (Today I wrote Nothing / Daniil Kharms), Natalie Czech (2009) [+]

“Every choice I made was dependent on a choice Bruno Schulz had made. On top of which, so many of Schulz’s sentences feel elemental, unbreakdownable. And his writing is so unbelievably good, so much better than anything that could conceivably be done with it, that more often than not I simply wanted to leave it alone.” [an interview: part 1 and part 2; more info. here]

Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes (Bruno Schulz’s The Street of Crocodiles)

“Over the course of the exhibition, attendants mark Museum visitors’ heights, first names, and date of the measurement on the gallery walls. Beginning as an empty white space, over time the gallery gradually accumulates the traces of thousands of people.” [more —more info. here]

Roman Ondák, Measuring the Universe, 2007