Experimental Typography
実験タイポグラフィ
Dictionary entry
- Concrete Poetry 1950s–1970s / Layout
Composes not just the meaning of words but their placement, repetition, blank space and sound as the poem itself.
- Typographic Space 1897– / modernist legacy / Layout
Designs reading time and vocal dynamics as space — the spread's blank, jumps of size and line, multiple faces.
- Swiss Punk Typography 1970s–1980s / Style
In Basel, the home of Swiss style, Weingart dismantled the grid from within: exploding letterspacing, stepped settings, layered film exposures — rebellion inside discipline that begot New Wave typography.
- Lettrism 1946–1970s / Style
A Paris-born movement that freed the letter from its duty of carrying meaning, treating sound and shape themselves as the material of the work. From surfaces paved with unreadable characters, to hypergraphy's proliferating signs, to marks scratched directly into film stock, it expanded the experiment of handling letters as physical matter.
- Ultraísmo 1918–1925 / Layout
A Spanish-language avant-garde that called for poetry compressed into metaphor and stripped of ornament. On the magazine page its type ran diagonally, woodcut abstractions were let in among the lines, and the poem was set as a plate in its own right. The earliest experimental typography to travel back and forth between Iberia and South America.
- Creacionismo 1916–1930s / Layout
A movement begun in Chile and carried through Paris, which declared that poetry does not copy nature but creates new facts. It produced visual poems in quantity, arranging letters as shapes and making the border between language and page a subject of experiment. With Ultraismo, one of the two pillars of the Spanish-language avant-garde.