Robert Bolick

Books On Books Collection – Yevhen Berdnikov While working on the "Alphabets Alive!" exhibition with the Bodleian to open in July 2023, I came across this project site page by Yevhen Berdnikov, a calligrapher based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since "Alphabets Alive!" would primarily concern the creative relationship of artists' books with alphabets and other writing systems, an AI-generated rendition of the alphabet…

Another artist wielding the AI artist’s tool is Yevhen Berdnikov. He has some thoughtful Midjourney-assisted-generated(?) art here: https://books-on-books.com/2023/05/04/books-on-books-collection-yevhen-berdnikov/

Similar theme/approach to making a work of art/book with the alphabet. Experimental Jetset does it with typography. Lohmann does it with calligraphy. Just a bit more than visual candy and mental floss.

Books On Books Collection – Experimental Jetset Automatically Arranged Alphabets (2015) Automatically Arranged Alphabets (2015)Experimental JetsetStaple-stitched "zine" with screenprinted silver cover. H180 x W160 mm. 24 pages. Acquired from the Newbridge Project, 18 September 2022.Photos: Books On Books Collection. On their website, the studio posted an automated gif of this typographic experiment involving software-generated compositions (archived here). Beautiful typography meets beautiful calligraphy…

How about these two ends of a spectrum: Experimental Jetset and Francesca Lohmann? http://books-on-books.com/2023/02/26/books-on-books-collection-experimental-jetset/

Books On Books Collection – Experimental Jetset Automatically Arranged Alphabets (2015) Automatically Arranged Alphabets (2015)Experimental JetsetStaple-stitched "zine" with screenprinted silver cover. H180 x W160 mm. 24 pages. Acquired from the Newbridge Project, 18 September 2022.Photos: Books On Books Collection. On their website, the studio posted an automated gif of this typographic experiment involving software-generated compositions (archived here). Beautiful typography meets beautiful calligraphy…

Interesting approach. Do you know Experimental Jetset? http://books-on-books.com/2023/02/26/books-on-books-collection-experimental-jetset/

This year’s the 250th anniversary of Johann David Steingruber’s “Architectural Alphabet”. Why do artists' books and architecture intersect so often? Some thoughts on that here: http://books-on-books.com/2023/01/01/celebrating-the-250th-anniversary-of-steingrubers-architectural-alphabet/