SIMON PETER BENCE +

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ARTISTS' BOOK

TYPE_BREAK / ANALYSIS OF LETTER FRAGMENTATION

experimental typography  //  concrete poetry
artist's concept book of Simon Peter Bence

first published 2017 / second (extended) edition 2019
ISBN978-963-12-9845-1 / ISBN978−615−00−3763−9

80 / 96 pages
210mm x 297mm
1+1 colour 

Cover: 
Curious Matter, Goya White − 380gr / Munken, Polar − 400gr 
Inlay: Munken, Polar − 150gr

Edition: 200 copies

Printed and bound by EPC Press − Budaörs,
on environmentally sustainable and forest friendly paper. 
FSC Forests for all, forever! − certified.

TYPE BREAK is a series of concrete poetry artworks. Typographic structures realized  with a systematic fragmentation method and with different visual algorithms wich are consistently documented and analysed. This open and variable system is based on deformation and rebuilding of letter-forms (letter re-coding). The basic component is letter “A”, as it is the most elemental linguistic unit. Results of this experiment are new signs, new text-surfaces that don’t follow any semantic or syntactic relations.// Crossover of verbal meaning, typography and imagery. Experimenting with these disciplines, analysing and interacting them with the use of different interference methods and visual transcoding. The outcome is text-like images, i.e. pictures with the option of verbal interpretation. Without the intention to justify W. J. T. Mitchell's "pictorial turn" theory (the dominant role of picture against text, in the media-era), these artworks live in the time of "info-need" (M. McLuhan) and "new media" (M. Castells). Type-graphics were created that are balanced on the borderline between text and picture, art and design and thus are reflections of the current situation.

project showcased on 
AIGA Eye on Design (American Institute of Graphic Arts)

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