McNeil

May 29

Tyree Callahan’s chromatic typewriter

May 28

May 27

Filmsense, Milton Glaser

Baby Teeth, Milton Glaser.

May 23

May 22

Ben Vautier

May 14

Robert Smithson

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…design, as a discipline based on the idea of planning, is itself a technique for imposing organization, structure, regulation, and control.

Typefaces are the most elementary example of this regulatory aspect of graphic design. By regularizing the shapes of letterforms, typefaces make words easily transmissible, with enormous benefits for society. The grid is another example. By giving the page a regular underlying structure, grids allow the relatively simple creation of complex assemblages of data, rendered into clear and consistent form by typefaces. These are unarguable developments of enormous utility and value.

Rick Poynor, Design as Dictator 

It was a poetry far beyond paraphrase, a poetry that often asked to be completed or activated by the reader, a poetry of direct presentation — the word, not words, words, words, or expressionistic squiggles — using the semantic, visual and phonetic elements of language as raw materials in a way seldom used by the poets of the past.

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Emmett Williams, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, 1967

Genevieve Gauckler