Campbell, Ken: AbaB "I wrote and artworked the book in three parallel and overlapping lines that run its length disregarding the concertina folds. The centre line records a conversation that took place between ‘A’ and ‘B’. The other two lines help or hinder the progress of this notion: all three lines are in expanded or condensed woodletter forms deployed to assist this book’s stammering progress from left to right.
I had two cases of woodletter, of different printing heights: one Anglo-American, an extra fatfaced serif; the other Didot, a Continental sans serif, very condensed and beautiful. They were so different in their respective fatness and thinness that they represented the polar ends of type design. As an act of cussedness I thought to do a book that brings the two together and see what happens. en., screen printed, 2 wood-cover in linen slip carton, 68p, 13,4 x 9,2 inch, Ed. of 50, num., sign., London, 1984 Request of availability backnext