{"id":57874,"date":"2025-11-14T18:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/?p=57874"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:20:08","slug":"text-heavy-the-art-of-type-design-by-nick-shinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/text-heavy-the-art-of-type-design-by-nick-shinn\/","title":{"rendered":"Text Heavy: The Art of Type Design by Nick Shinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the brief for a poster to be featured in an exhibition about the work of the type designer Nick Shinn, we were inspired by a paragraph, written in English and French and required to be included in the work, that acknowledged the Anishinaabe Algonquin Nation\u2019s precedence as the customary keepers of the unceded and unsurrendered territory on which the city of Ottawa is located. We wanted to make the acknowledgment more complete by presenting it in the Nation&#8217;s language. We located a native Algonquin interpreter and asked them to translate the poster\u2019s text. Then we presented it in a typographic form that inverts the normal visual hierarchy: not only is the otherwise invisible Algonquin language the most prominent here, but the acknowledgment is also featured as a main element, while the show&#8217;s title is treated as a footnote. With the additional language, the poster also became literally text-heavy, allowing us to showcase a variety of Shinn\u2019s Worldwide type family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-57876\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Text-Heavy-SM-S.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"641.5\" height=\"907\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106,5177,4909,5175,1521,15,5174,5176,5173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5106","category-text-heavy-the-art-of-type-design-by-nick-shinn-royal-canadian-academy-of-arts-ottawa-2025","category-en-post","category-henk-van-assen","category-inkjet-print","category-poster","category-robert-tombs","category-royal-canadian-academy-of-arts","category-worldwide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57874"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60623,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57874\/revisions\/60623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sulki-min.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}