Work in publication
Typography as civic space
Typographic systems create spaces for participation and belonging; as
distinct from other types of experience cultivated by or through
‘design’.
Typography doesn’t just mediate between people, but creates spaces for
ideas and people to coexist (and correspond).
Typography works as a site of encounter between multiple participants,
readers, texts and contexts across time and space.
Typography is able to represent and
project (can be contained by Flusser’s conception of
typography); where typographic forms and systems function as ‘presences
in themselves’ that represent lived experience while ‘functionally being
separate from the concrete reality’. (Zuluga)
Typography creates ‘fields of possibilities’ (Zuluga) — but does this
register in our experiences of reading or consuming typographic
design?