Poster Collection Typotecture Cover

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Typotecture / Typotektur

Typography as Architectural Imagery / Typografie als architektonische Bilderwelt
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“Typotecture” takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture. Letters, words, or entire sentences form architectural figures, which can be read both as pictures and as words. The playful handling of typography has led to an exhilarating wealth of variations in the history of poster art. Starting with contemporary poster design, the widely divergent strands of development in the architectural treatment of lettering are traced back in time through the twentieth century.

“Typotecture” takes a look at posters from various countries and periods, which share a special feature of typography: the tendency to break out of the two-dimensional space of lettering and establish hybrid links with architecture. Letters, words, or entire sentences form architectural figures, which can be read both as pictures and as words. The playful handling of typography has led to an exhilarating wealth of variations in the history of poster art. Starting with contemporary poster design, the widely divergent strands of development in the architectural treatment of lettering are traced back in time through the twentieth century.

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Edited by Museum für Gestaltung Zürich

With an essay by Andres Janser

Design: Integral Lars Müller

16,5 x 24 cm, 6 ½ x 9 ½ in

64 pages, 85 illustrations

paperback

2002, 978-3-907078-89-1, German
English
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Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Bettina Richter (eds.)

Niklaus Troxler

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Poster Collection, vol. 34

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En Vogue

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Poster Collection, vol. 32

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Stop Motion

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Poster Collection, vol. 31

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Self-Promotion

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Poster Collection, vol. 30

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Herbert Leupin

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Poster Collection, vol. 28

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The Hand / Die Hand

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Poster Collection, vol. 27

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Japan – Nippon

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Poster Collection, vol. 26

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In Series / In Serie

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Poster Collection, vol. 23

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Help!

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Poster Collection, vol. 20

Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Christian Brändle (eds.)

Kopf an Kopf

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Poster Collection, vol. 19

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Head to Head

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Poster Collection, vol. 19

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Otto Baumberger

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Poster Collection, vol. 18

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Photo Graphics

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Poster Collection, vol. 17

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Comix!

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Poster Collection, vol. 16

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Zürich–Milano

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Poster Collection, vol. 14

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Typo China

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Poster Collection, vol. 13

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Catherine Zask

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Poster Collection, vol. 12

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Handmade

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Poster Collection, vol. 11

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Armin Hofmann

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Donald Brun

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Poster Collection, vol. 2

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Revue 1926

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Poster Collection, vol. 1