“We also know of another superstition of that time: that of the Man of the Book. On some shelf in some hexagon (men reasoned) there must exist a book which is the formula and perfect compendium of all the rest: some librarian has gone through it and he is analogous to a God.” (Borges, 1941, p.6)

 

The “Acrobat Reader” series of books represent a script of the Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges, transcribed in the typeface which visual form constitutes most commonly used pure alphabets of today’s world. Transferring an idea about divine book from the Borges’s Library, the design of letters is an intervention of hybrid shapes into the heritage of Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabetic genetics. According to the project brief, printed material consists of three visual forms: text, text and image and only image. 

 

The process development demonstrates initial experiments with dissection of existing letters by ascender, descender and counter space, resulting in compositions of geometric shapes that later developed into a new writing system.

Publication x 3, 115 x 180 mm

2017