Diagrammatic Writing

• 2019
• offset lithograph, sewn in sections with exposed spine
• 138 x 213 mm, 36 pp

This book examines, by its own typography as well as text, how the form of the book contributes to the production of meaning. According to an introduction of the original publisher:

Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever) been subject to so highly focused and detailed a study. The text and graphical presentation are fully integrated, co-dependent, and mutually self-reflexive.

The design of this Korean edition attempts to “translate” the form of the original book as well as its content. Co-designed by its translator, the text evidently shows how the verbal translation has been affected by the need to find matching visual arrangements.

• Project type:
• publication

• Author:
• Johanna Drucker

• Translator:
• Choi Sulki

• Typefaces:
• AG Choijeongho
• AG Choijeongho Minburi
• AG Superblack Gothic

• Paper:
• Angel Cloth
• Munken Print
• Vivicolor

• Printer:
• Segeoleum

• Commissioners:
• Specter Press
• Workroom Press
• Workroom Specter

• Exhibitions:
• Graphic West 9: Sulki & Min (Kyoto DDD Gallery, 2021)
• Group Theory (DDP, Seoul, 2021–22)

• See also:
• Publisher’s web page