TYPOGRAPHY is to literature as musical performance is to composition: an essential act of interpretation, full of endless opportunities for insight Or obtuseness. Typography at its best is a slow performing art, worthy of the same informed appreciation that we sometimes give to musical performances, and capable of giving similar nourishment and pleasure in return.

The typographer’s one essential task is to interpret and communicate the text. Its tone, its tempo, its logical structure, its physical size, all determine the possibilities of its typographic form. The typographer is to the text as the musician is to the score.

The first task of the typographer is to read and understand the text: the second task is to analyze and map it. Only then can typographical interpretation begin.

Robert Bringhurst

TYPOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION

A three-part project translating song lyrics into different graphic formats using primarily the manipulation of type to create visual compositions.

Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers)
by Charles Wright &
The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

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The first part involves different specific constants and variables for each section of a 14-page book.