plakat 1: typestract

Here’s the very first issue of the Plakat broadside series from Openings Press in Gloucestershire, England. Openings “aim[ed] to produce a series that is a complete integration of graphics and texts, ie. not an illustrated poem or a captioned drawing." This one’s got one of Dom Sylvester Houédard’s typestracts—concrete poems created on his Olivetti Lettera 22 typewriter, here accompanied by two weights of Monotype Grotesque, all set without caps. It’s the most striking example of graphic work by a Benedictine monk that we’ve ever seen.