SAME BOLD STORIES?

What story or stories does a museum collection tell? Does it depict a canon or does it rather create one? Which positions are »worth« collecting?
This publication accompanying the exhibition of the same name at the Klingspor Museum Offenbach poses these questions and explores them in a shared dialogue with experts from the practice and theory of type design. By deliberately shifting the focus, the book advocates perceiving the existing historiography as just one possible narrative among many others – not in a revisionist, but in a complementary and deepening way.

The 244-page publication that we designed together with Masha Egorova was allowed to be everything it wanted to be. But one thing above all: messy! Inspired by design historian Martha Scotford's term »messy history«, our aim was for the design not to be too tidy, orderly and linear, but rather contradictory, colourful and polyphonic. So we as the graphics team went back and forth between the designs, experimented and let ourselves get surprised. We only used FLINTA* fonts (searched for via 0 FLINT*ype). The result is a book that will hopefully be as much fun to read as we had designing it.

Client: Klingspor Museum
Collaboration: Masha Egorova
Year: 2024

More about the fonts used in the book and more inside shots on 0 Fonts in Use.