No. 4 Typo, by Hansjörg Mayer
Not a rare nor an old book, the wonder of this is in the wealth of graphic invention derived from letterforms and print processes by the German poet, painter, typographer, printer and publisher, Hansjörg Mayer. Mayer was inspired by John Cage, Kurt Schwitters and the Concrete poets to experiment with abstraction in type and ink particularly in the 1960s. There are many examples here that will be familiar to printers as random leaps from the simple occurrences of ink during press cleanup, or from overprinting two texts slightly ajar…as well as more conceptual poems.
