{"id":1802,"date":"2013-06-18T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2013\/06\/18\/mmmmarginalia-page-1-great-expectations\/"},"modified":"2017-07-09T22:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T22:44:31","slug":"mmmmarginalia-page-1-great-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2013\/06\/18\/mmmmarginalia-page-1-great-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mmmmarginalia.tumblr.com\/post\/53291421469\/page-1-great-expectations-2012-page-1-great\">mmmmarginalia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"red\"><strong>Page 1: Great Expectations<\/strong> (2012)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"red\">Page 1: Great Expectations\u00a0<\/span>is an unusual typographic experiment designed to explore the relationship between graphic design, typography and the reading of a page.<\/p>\n<p>Crafted to engage the culturally curious, Page 1: Great Expectations collects the responses of 70 international graphic designers when posed with the same brief \u2013 to design and lay out the first page of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, a text chosen in part because it directly references lettering as Pip searches for clues about his family from the letterforms inscribed on their tombstone. The brief encouraged the 70 contributors to explore, challenge or celebrate the conventions of book typography. Each layout is accompanied by a short rationale explaining the designer\u2019s decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>Page 1 is not just a book for graphic designers, it reveals the power typography has to influence and affect the way we all interpret a text. Many readers will be surprised by the attention to detail and level of engagement with the narrative on display, and aficionados of Dickens will be charmed by the idiosyncratic approaches to this much-loved text.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors include:<a href=\"http:\/\/apracticeforeverydaylife.com\/\">A Practice for Everyday Life<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csm.arts.ac.uk\/research\/staffresearchprofiles\/professorphilbaines\/\">Phil Baines<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartlidgelevene.co.uk\/\">Cartlidge Levene<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wallpaper.com\/\">Tony Chambers \/ Wallpaper*<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterhouse.com\/\">William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand \/ Winterhouse<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.experimentaljetset.nl\/\">Experimental Jetset<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/pleasedonotbend.co.uk\/\">Fraser Muggeridge studio<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlssonwilker.com\/\">KarlssonWilker<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/spin.co.uk\/\">Spin,\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiofrith.com\/\">Studio Frith<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyphenpress.co.uk\/authors\/robin_kinross\">Robin Kinross<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/elupton.com\/\">Ellen Lupton<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pentagram.com\/en\/new\/luke-hayman\/\">Luke Hayman \/ Pentagram<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiomyerscough.com\/\">Morag Myerscough<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/spiekermann.com\/en\/\">Erik Spiekermann<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samwinston.com\/\">Sam Winston<\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ezerdesign.com\/\">Oded Ezer<\/a>and Professor Robert Patten, Scholar in Residence at the Charles Dickens Museum, London, and Lynette S Autrey Professor in Humanities at Rice University, Texas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mmmmarginalia: Page 1: Great Expectations (2012) Page 1: Great Expectations\u00a0is an unusual typographic experiment designed to explore the relationship between graphic design, typography and the reading of a page. Crafted to engage the culturally curious, Page 1: Great Expectations collects the responses of 70 international graphic designers when posed with the same brief \u2013 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-t4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4855,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/07\/22\/typography-and-nationalism-the-law-of-the-letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":1802,"position":0},"title":"Typography and Nationalism &#8211; The Law of the Letter","author":"monochromist","date":"July 22, 2009","format":"link","excerpt":"Typography and Nationalism - The Law of the Letterby John Emerson It\u2019s a humid day in January 1998. 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