2018
SYNOPSIS
Book design for the group exhibition Haus Wittgenstein, curated by Nuno Crespo, at MAAT, 07/11–25/02/2019. Summoned on the 90th anniversary of the Wittgenstein house, in Vienna, designed by the Austrian philosopher. A project begun in 1926 and completed in 1928, the house has an intense history in which several areas of knowledge converge. This confluence occurs not only because Wittgenstein was its architect, but also because the history of the project, of its construction and inhabitation, reflects a series of conflicts that constitute a comprehensive example of a creative process that is at once both artistic and architectural.
Book block printed in alternating sections of monochrome and four-colour offset on uncoated paper (Munken Polar Rough), with a section in four-colour offset on coated paper (Arctic Volume White), and another monochrome offset on marble-coloured paper (Keaykolour Parchment Natural). Bound as a softcover swiss-binding on a one-sided high-gloss coated board.
Set exclusively in Bespoke (60 versions, to be exact) – a typeface designed by Alexis Reigel and Marco Müller in 2012, to be used in www.metaflop.com, an open-source web application that allows users to modulate certain parameters, and download free custom versions. Metaflop uses METAFONT, a font description language developed by Donald Knuth in 1979. Unlike common typefaces, where the outline of the character is fixed, here each character is defined only by a set of geometrical equations. Thus, what we have is not a set of set letters but a set of set parameters that allow modulation. Each time it is rendered, it results in, not so much a font, but rather a metafont.
EN, PT / 186 pp. / 210 × 280mm
Photos: Bruno Lopes
2018
SYNOPSIS
Book design for the group exhibition Haus Wittgenstein, curated by Nuno Crespo, at MAAT, 07/11–25/02/2019. Summoned on the 90th anniversary of the Wittgenstein house, in Vienna, designed by the Austrian philosopher. A project begun in 1926 and completed in 1928, the house has an intense history in which several areas of knowledge converge. This confluence occurs not only because Wittgenstein was its architect, but also because the history of the project, of its construction and inhabitation, reflects a series of conflicts that constitute a comprehensive example of a creative process that is at once both artistic and architectural.
Book block printed in alternating sections of monochrome and four-colour offset on uncoated paper (Munken Polar Rough), with a section in four-colour offset on coated paper (Arctic Volume White), and another monochrome offset on marble-coloured paper (Keaykolour Parchment Natural). Bound as a softcover swiss-binding on a one-sided high-gloss coated board.
Set exclusively in Bespoke (60 versions, to be exact) – a typeface designed by Alexis Reigel and Marco Müller in 2012, to be used in www.metaflop.com, an open-source web application that allows users to modulate certain parameters, and download free custom versions. Metaflop uses METAFONT, a font description language developed by Donald Knuth in 1979. Unlike common typefaces, where the outline of the character is fixed, here each character is defined only by a set of geometrical equations. Thus, what we have is not a set of set letters but a set of set parameters that allow modulation. Each time it is rendered, it results in, not so much a font, but rather a metafont.
EN, PT / 186 pp. / 210 × 280mm
Photos: Bruno Lopes