DS Type Foundry Publications
The Narratives of Type Design: A Collection of Typefaces from DSTF
This book presents a collection of original typefaces designed by the DS Type Foundry with each typeface design emerging from a process where typography is treated not only as form but as narrative. Drawing on handmade traditions and digital craft the, typefaces showcased here are more than functional sets of letters, they are visual stories shaped by cultural, social and material contexts.
The book seeks to demonstrate how type design can go beyond neutrality carrying meaning and resonance through the marks of its making. Each typeface is introduced through a discussion of its conceptual origins, its handmade, or experimental construction and the social or historical narratives it embodies. These essays are supported by visual examples that place the fonts in use allowing the readers to see how form and content speak together. By bringing together critical reflection, design process and finished type specimens this book offers both arecord of the DS Type Foundry’s work and a provocation, that typography can be understood as a medium of storytelling, cultural memory and resistance. This book is intended for academics, designers, students and anyone interested in how type can shape not just words on a page but ideas in the world.
Book order by request.
ISBN 978-0-473-7782-6 (printed version).
ISBN 978-0-473-7782-3 (PDF version).
The book seeks to demonstrate how type design can go beyond neutrality carrying meaning and resonance through the marks of its making. Each typeface is introduced through a discussion of its conceptual origins, its handmade, or experimental construction and the social or historical narratives it embodies. These essays are supported by visual examples that place the fonts in use allowing the readers to see how form and content speak together. By bringing together critical reflection, design process and finished type specimens this book offers both arecord of the DS Type Foundry’s work and a provocation, that typography can be understood as a medium of storytelling, cultural memory and resistance. This book is intended for academics, designers, students and anyone interested in how type can shape not just words on a page but ideas in the world.
Book order by request.
ISBN 978-0-473-7782-6 (printed version).
ISBN 978-0-473-7782-3 (PDF version).
