Diagrammatic Writing

• book
• 2019
• offset lithography and sewn paperback binding
• 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. “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” (Onomatopee website).

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.

• ISBN 979-11-89356-22-4 03600
• Text in Korean
• 15,000 won

Author

• Johanna Drucker

Translator

• Choi Sulki

Editor

• Min Guhong

Printer

• Segeoleum, Seoul

Commissioner

• Workroom Specter, Seoul

Exhibitions

• 2021. 『Graphic West 9: Sulki & Min』. Kyoto DDD Gallery
• 2021–22. 『Group Theory』. DDP, Seoul

See also

• Publisher’s website