turbo type
turbo type

SAME BOLD STORIES?

What (his)story does a museum ­collection tell? Does the collection depict a canon, or does it not rather create one? Which positions are »worth« collecting? The volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Klingspor Museum Offenbach raises these questions and explores them in a collaborative discourse with experts from the practical and theoretical fields of type design. By consciously shifting the focus, the publication pleads for existing historiography to be considered as just one possible narrative among many others – not revisionist, but complementary and in-depth.

Together with Masha Egorova, we designed the exhibition publication. This 244-page catalog was allowed to be everything that it wanted to be. But one thing in particular: messy! Based on the concept of »messy history« by Martha Scotford, the design shouldn't be too tidy, neat and uniform, but instead rather contradictory, colorful and polyphonic. In the graphics team we switched back and forth the designs a lot – which was an new and playful-experimental way of working for us – and also only used FLINTA* fonts (searched for via flintype.com). Hopefully the book is as much fun to read as we had designing it.

Kunde: Klingspor Museum
Jahr: 2024

turbo type
turbo type
turbo type
turbo type
turbo type
turbo type
turbo type

SAME BOLD STORIES?

What (his)story does a museum ­collection tell? Does the collection depict a canon, or does it not rather create one? Which positions are »worth« collecting? The volume accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Klingspor Museum Offenbach raises these questions and explores them in a collaborative discourse with experts from the practical and theoretical fields of type design. By consciously shifting the focus, the publication pleads for existing historiography to be considered as just one possible narrative among many others – not revisionist, but complementary and in-depth.

Together with Masha Egorova, we designed the exhibition publication. This 244-page catalog was allowed to be everything that it wanted to be. But one thing in particular: messy! Based on the concept of »messy history« by Martha Scotford, the design shouldn't be too tidy, neat and uniform, but instead rather contradictory, colorful and polyphonic. In the graphics team we switched back and forth the designs a lot – which was an new and playful-experimental way of working for us – and also only used FLINTA* fonts (searched for via flintype.com). Hopefully the book is as much fun to read as we had designing it.

Kunde: Klingspor Museum
Jahr: 2024