スイスを代表するタイポグラファーでありブックデザイナー、ヨースト・ホフリ（Jost Hochuli）の60年にわたる実践を網羅した包括的なモノグラフ。

ホフリは一貫して「テキストの可読性」をデザインの最も重要な役割の一つと捉えてきました。字間や語間、行間といった文字組の細部から、判型や版面、見出しの階層といった本全体の構成に至るまで、知識を正確かつ美しく伝えるための本づくりを追求しています。本書は、これまで未公開だったアーカイブ写真や詳細な図版を多数収録し、ホフリ自身が手がけたレイアウトによって構成されています。作者による制作物を総覧すると同時に、本書そのものでもホフリのブックデザインに触れることができる本です。

また、ジョン・モーガン（John Morgan）による序文や、長年の協働者であったロビン・キンロス（Robin Kinross）との対話を通じて、ホフリの思考の軌跡と、その根幹を形づくった人々との交流を丁寧に紐解いています。彼の著書『Detail in Typography』などが現代のデザイナーから再び評価を集める現在において、ブックデザインの在り方を基礎から学び、考察するための重要なリファレンスとなる一冊。

Typobiography looks back over the long and prolific career of the Swiss designer and typographer. Bringing together several texts by Jost Hochuli himself, contributions by well-known figures (including a preface by John Morgan and an interview with Robin Kinross) and a corpus of previously unpublished archival images, this monograph aims to raise interest in book design, and especially the inspirations and personalities that marked out the designer’s career. The book is a visual monograph, which develops in several thematic sections the questions that have guided Jost Hochuli’s practice over his sixty-year career, and in particular his conception of design as an essential factor in the legibility of a text and the transmission of knowledge. Each part is abundantly illustrated with works specifically digitized and displayed in a layout designed by Jost Hochuli himself, to create a reference work on the designer’s work. The designer has just celebrated his 90th birthday in 2023, yet no monograph of his work has been published since Printed Matter, Mainly Books in 2002. This book will provide a much-needed update on the last twenty years of Jost Hochuli’s career, as well as on the renewed interest in his work, particularly as an author, among younger generations.

This book is published with the support of the Centre national des arts plastiques (Paris, FR) and the Jan Michalski Foundation.

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Pages: 200
Size: 185 x 256mm
Hardcover
Color

Published by Editions B42, 2023