1568, illustration of a German type founder
pouring molten type metal into a hand mold.
A punch (left) and the respective matrix produced from it (right).
The small letters at the base of the matrix are founders' inventory marks.
SRC
17th century and early 18th century
On Punch Cutting & Wood Cutting." The Colophon [original series], Part Ten (1932)
SRC
17th century and early 18th century
On Punch Cutting & Wood Cutting." The Colophon [original series], Part Ten (1932)
SRC
Monotype matrix case
SRC
Typography, Automation, and the Division of Labor
A Brief History, J. Dakota Brown, 2019
SRC
The Second Wave
SRC
Close Listening
SRC
The Chicago Manual of Style
SRC
Detail in Typography
SRC
CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL, Hannah Weiner, 1974.
CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL, Hannah Weiner, 1974.
If the birds understand each other's languages, Experimental type workshop, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2025
John Cage, Silence, Lectures and Writings,1973.
John Cage, Silence, Lectures and Writings,1973.
John Cage, Silence, Lectures and Writings,1973.
Karen Brodine, Woman Sitting at the
Karen Brodine, Woman Sitting at the
Karen Brodine, Woman Sitting at the
Mirtha Dermisache, To Be Read, 1972
Codex Seraphinianus
Luigi Serafini, 1981.
Christian Dotremont, 1922 - 1979
The Notebook of William Blake, a Photographic and Typographic Facsimile, 1973.
John Cage ‘Fontana Mix’ 1958
Notation System /Writing System /Typographic System
Cornelius Cardew ‘Treatise’ 1963-1967 / https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=b0V9_xqaw8Q
The Notebook of William Blake, a Photographic and Typographic Facsimile, 1973.
The Notebook of William Blake, a Photographic and Typographic Facsimile, 1973.
Rudolf Laban ‘Labanotation’ 1920
Roland Topor (1938 -1997)
title page from book 'souvenirs'
A small book that has all text barred
De Harmonie- Amsterdam
Zela Odessa Palmer 2022
Cesare Leonardi, wood board & system
Notation System, Writing System, Typographic System
Onnen, Serge, "100% Text, 99% Illegible", Sticker on a package, Drawings on Writing, JL Books, 2008, New York.
EDHV, Design Lab, Debug
Flexible Visual System, Martin Lorenz
1639 Historia Christi Persice Conscripta, simulque multis modis contaminata Hier.
Xavier Latine Reddita & Animadversionibus notata a Ludovico de Dieu
Celestial Globe SCI 21 | Iran | dated 684 AH (12856–6 AD)
The Jami‘ al-Mabadi’ wa’l-Ghayat of al-Marrakushi
MSS 358 | Iran or India | dated 1070 AH (1659–60 AD)
The Jami‘ al-Mabadi’ wa’l-Ghayat of al-Marrakushi
MSS 358 | Iran or India | dated 1070 AH (1659–60 AD)
Calligraphic Panel
CAL 178 | Iran or India | 19th century
Cihannüma, published by Müteferrika Publishing House, 1725.
Cihannüma, published by Müteferrika Publishing House, 1725.
Ahwal al-Ghazawat der Diyar al-Bosna, 1797.
Raşid Tarihi, Müteferrika Publishing House, 1797.
Usul al-Handasa and Muthallathat
Faraid al-Fawaid fi Bayan al-Aqaid (Amentü Şerhi) published by Üsküdar Publishing House, 1839.
Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah,1170.
Kitāb Ṣuwar al-kawākib al-thābitah,1170.
Rasāʼil by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ, 1560.
Rasāʼil by Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʼ, 1560.
Kitab fi al-Imtina ‘an Shurb al-Muskirat, [A Book on Temperance], Beirut: American Mission Press, 1838.
Kitab al-Hadi al-Muhammadi fi’l-Tibb al-Nabawi (a Treatise on Prophetic Medicine)
Dated 21 Shawwal 926 (4 October 1520)
Kurt Schwitters, Ursonate (1932).
Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont,
Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio (1657, i.e. 1667).
Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont,
Alphabeti verè naturalis Hebraici brevissima delineatio (1657, i.e. 1667).
John Wilkins, An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668).
John Wilkins, An Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Language (1668).
Alexander Bell, Visible Speech: The Science of Universal Alphabets; or Self-interpreting Physiological Letters (1867).
Joshua Steele, Prosodia Rationalis: or, An Essay Towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech, to be Expressed and Perpetuated by Peculiar Symbols (1779).
Joshua Steele, Prosodia Rationalis: or, An Essay Towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech, to be Expressed and Perpetuated by Peculiar Symbols (1779).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qLKu3R8no4
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Figuration collagiert (Figuration Collaged), 1980s, collage on letterpress.
Beyond Visual Poetry—Visual rhetoric/Visual Literacy/Visual to Aesthetic/Linguistics+semiotics/
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt, Divided Planet, 1970s, typewriting, carbon copy.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - Spheres of Interest, 1975.
George Puttenham, 1589, The Art of English Poesie.
George Puttenham, 1589, The Art of English Poesie.
George Herbert, Easter Wings" in the 1633 edition of The Temple.
The altar poem (Carmen XXVI) by Optatianus
The altar poem (Carmen XXVI) by Optatianus
The 17th-century text of George Herbert's "The Altar."
Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)
Medieval Pattern Poems of Rabanus Maurus (9th Century)
Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrams, La cravate et la montre, 1914
Guillaume Apollinaire, Calligrams 1917.
Roger McGough
Simon Cutts born, Poinsettia 1975.
Simon Cutts born, Poinsettia 1975.
Ian Hamilton Finlay sculpture in Stuttgart, 1975.
Pablo Picasso, Corrected version for the review SIC, n°17, 1917
John Furnival, The Tower of Pisa, OP, 1966.
Simmias de Rhodes, 4th century BC.
Micrography/Microcalligraphy, Shiviti, 18th century.
Verses of Qur’an (کل من علیها فان (Everyone is mortal) (Surah al-Rahman verse 26),
with the poems of Hafiz, (هر که آمد به جهان اهل فنا خواهد بود، آنکه پاینده و باقیست خدا خواهد بود)
Persian Cross, Altar slab, Pahlavi Inscriptions
Fragment of a pottery vessel of Persian provenance,
Middle Ages (12th-13th centuries CE)
این کوزه چو من عاشق زاری بوده است
در بند سر زلف نگاری بودهست
این دسته که بر گردن او میبینی
دستیست که برگردن یاری بودهست
Folio of Persian poems, 18th century, Iran.
Recueil de modèles d'écriture persane, 1489.
Hafiz,14th century, Muḥammad Riza ibniAbd al Aziz, scribe.
Hakim Mosque, Isfahan
Oblong Format Safina, 905A.D. 1499-1500
Folio from the 'Five Treasures' (Panj Ganj) of Jami
The Jameh Mosque of Saveh
Houshang Sahba
هوشنگ صهبا، انسان شیشهای ، پاییز ۱۳۴۹
Shams Qeis,
شمس قیس، هفتم هجری
Shams Qeis,
شمس قیس، هفتم هجری
Zhazeh Tabatabaie
ژازه طباطبایی ، شعرهای خواندیدنی، ۱۳۳۲
Shams Qeis,
شمس قیس، هفتم هجری
Friedrich Rückert, 1788—1866.
Rückert, Friedrich, 1874
Rückert, Friedrich, 1874
History of script,
تاریخ خط و خطاطین، سید محمد سلیم
History of script,
تاریخ خط و خطاطین، سید محمد سلیم
History of script,
تاریخ خط و خطاطین، سید محمد سلیم
Arzang e Cheen, Munshi Devi Parsad, Reprint 1867.
ارژنگ چین، نسخههای ۱۸۷۶ - ۱۹۵۲
Arzang e Cheen, Munshi Devi Parsad, Reprint 1867.
ارژنگ چین، نسخههای ۱۸۷۶ - ۱۹۵۲
Struggling Writing workshop, KABK, 2024
The Red Intellect, Shihabuddin Suhrawardi
The Red Intellect—a journey, beyond the seen, beyond the spoken.
The Philosophical Allegories and Mystical Treatises (Bibliotheca Iranica: Intellectual Traditions Series) (English, Persian, and Persian Edition)
Siyah mashq, Qajar era, Iran.
Siyah mashq, Qajar era, Iran.
Siyah mashq, Qajar era, Iran.
Houshang Sahba
هوشنگ صهبا، انسان شیشهای ، پاییز ۱۳۴۹
Arzang e Cheen, Munshi Devi Parsad, Reprint 1867.
Zhazeh Tabatabaie
ژازه طباطبایی ، شعرهای خواندیدنی، ۱۳۳۲
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
The Red Intellect booklet, 2025
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 01, 2024
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 01, 2024
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 01, 2024
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 02, 2025
If the birds understand each other's languages, Experimental type workshop, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 2025
Irit Rogoff - Becoming Research
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor W. Adorno, Essay as form
Typographic Narratives Workshop, 2025
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 01, 2024
Night meeting, André Bicât,1965
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 01, 2024
Plain Text Magazine, Issue 02, 2025