From Wolfe Hall:
Josephine Berry’s latest title explores the devastation left in the wake of modernity and how globalisation is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet. Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices and activism, this book investigates art’s power to break with capitalist realism and petroleum landscapes, finding new ways to reimagine life on Earth.
The typographic language of the book references both vintage petrol advertising and the language of protest by styling monumental, heavy-weight, condensed lettering for chapter title pages and headers.
The main text is set to feel like a road. Each justified paragraph weaves from left to right, meandering across the page, disrupted by contextual imagery, bold footnote numbering, and a bright pink thread ties the sections together.
Wolfe Hall used Waldenburg in Condensed Medium, Condensed Heavy, SemiCondensed Heavy and Book styles.
Planetary Realism was edited by Leah Whitman-Salkin and published in March 2025 by Sternberg Press.