This afternoon I headed over to Kemistry Gallery in Shoreditch to check out the Typographica exhibition. Typographica was a journal first published in 1949 and was revolutionary at the time for the ways in which it experimented with groundbreaking methods of combining type and image to create new relationships and meanings for the viewer. It featured examples of type and photo-experimentation from such artists as Rodchenko and a new discovery for me Henryk Berlewi, another Constructivist artist (featured on the top row below).
The exhibition was informative enough and held my attention, although perhaps because many of the things Typographica was so revolutionary for are now relatively commonplace in print and publishing today, it didn't bowl me over. Nonetheless, definitely worth a visit.[Typographica runs until October 31st 2009].
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