[ Plain Text ] (English + French)
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a semi-annuel publication of exploratory typography
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(by Plain Form)
From fiction to theory, from mystical analyses to visual works, Plain Text aims at exploring typographic imaginaries, moving beyond a strictly historical and technical framework, with a taste for the unknown and the dormant potential of writing.
(Oct 26)———(10€)
[210 × 297mm]
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The forms of idiocy
Gabriele Čepulytė on asemic writing and the practice of Achim Reichert
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The right distance
Conversation with Radim Peško on gaps, grafting and going further
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Transference
A fiction by Chloé Delchini about language, bodies and transformation
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Express exegesis
Benjamin Dumond reads intentions and builds bridges between typefaces
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Valences of the typographic
An essay on typology and historical force by Marcus Leis Allion
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Drawing worlds
Anne-Dauphine Borione on dragons and typographic quests
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Beyond language
Yunru Li redraws Latin writing, from gesture to forms
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Two-headed creature
On the Berlin key and what it has to say for itself, by Lucas Descroix
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The ritual of writing
Alexandre Michel turns to magic and performance to rethink letters
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Wild lines
Nature finds its way into Stephanie Specht’s visual language
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Whose font is it anyway?
Erik Carter considers ownership: invention, tools and the Font Wars
(Jui 26)———(14€)
[210 × 297mm]
[ISBN 978-2-9597254-3-2]
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Cultivate margins
Benjamin Dumond on typography as a multiple practice.
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Fried egg
Eugénie Bidaut on legibility, inclusivity and odd contrast methods.
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Their XYZ, our ABC
Luther R. Marsh frames letters as humble forms with world-shaping force.
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Playing the alphabet
Three type design projects tuned to rhythm, drums, and improvisation.
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Double vision
Eyes, letters and society: Thomas Huot-Marchand on Émile Javal.
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(a poem)
Alex Balgiu explores the visual grammar of ornament.
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Alphabetic journeys
Conversation with Johanna Drucker on the life and magic of alphabets.
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Inscrypted
Strokes and whispers of unseen worlds, collected by Hélène Marian.
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Leave meaning behind?
Asemic writing and the play of absence, by Gabriele Čepulytė.
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Marks, signs, stories
In the shadows of alphabets: Lucas Descroix roams with Marc Pessin.
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Living entities
In Mankun Guo’s work, type stirs, shifts, and takes shape.
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Traditions and treachery
Ariel Martín Pérez reflects on absent letters in the Canaries Islands.
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Missing sign
Stories with bits of letters inside: new fictions from Plain Form.
(Fév 25)———(14€)
[210 × 297mm]
[ISBN 978-2-9597254-1-8]
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Writing Beyond the Latin Empire
Tim Brookes from Endangered Alphabets explores the alterity of writing systems.
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Of metal and mold
Non-static letters from Aliona Ciobanu and Alec Vivier-Reynaud.
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Emergent realities
Inner dialogue from the collective behind the Inscript festival.
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Serif Obscura
Benjamin Dumond looks at cinema for typographic concepts.
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Constellating typography
A dialectic view on type design by Marcus Leis Allion.
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Server the signal
Simon Renaud creates a dialogue between inspirations and research.
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Droplets
A short fiction by Mardi Forestier, where variations infuse meaning.
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Expanding territories
Conversation with Hervé Aracil: teaching, invention and Gilles Deleuze.
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Risky pedagogy
Exploratory works from HAW Hamburg, with Pierre Pané-Farré.
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Ants, spiders and bees
Different ways of dealing with historical sources by Lucas Descroix.
(Jan 25)———(14€)
[210 × 297mm]
[ISBN 978-2-9597254-0-1]
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Family Business
Lucas Descroix views type families through parables.
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Trust the Process
A dive into Anne-Dauphine Borione’s energetic letters.
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Legend of the Printer’s Devil
Printing might be pure evil, according to William Skeen.
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Shape of a Thousand Universes
Eager Zhang’s poetic outlook on type and languages.
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Asemic What?
A conversation with Stefan Ellmer about (non-)sense.
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Emomania
Ayasha Khan explores the border between text and images.
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Type as a Labyrinth
What Benjamin Dumond means when he says “experimental”.
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Atlas
Non-verbal links in a well-arranged array of images.
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Weavings
Zuzana Licko brings type design mechanisms into other fields.
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One Last Request
Fonts destroy the world, by Verso Wurm, illustrated by Arman Mohtadji.
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Ancient Mysteries of Writing
Archeologist Kirsten D. Dzwiza on letters and ancient magic.
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Express Exegesis
Reading intentions and building bridges between typefaces.
