{"product_id":"parables-on-dropping-out","title":"Parables on Dropping Out","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBorn in 1943 and educated at Princeton and Yale Universities, Aaron Marcus is a graphic artist best known for his computer-science-based design and experimental proto-AI compositions. Combining handwork with coding, he anticipated forms of computer-assisted practice that have since become widespread among contemporary artists and designers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an interview with Kate Long for the Letterform Archive in San Francisco, Marcus traces the arc of his lifelong fascination with typography:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I have been interested in the history and transformation of alphabets since childhood. I recall a full-page table in the Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia that my parents had obtained as a give-away. We couldn’t afford the full set, but I had access to the ‘Aa-Az’ volume. I loved looking at the changes of Egyptian (hieroglyphics to hieratics to demotics), Hebrew, and our own Graeco-Roman alphabet. I learned at an early age to read Hebrew as well as English languages, and later learned enough Greek to read signs in Greece and some Russian signs. As a graphic design student, I was introduced to the formal study of letter shapes, their counters, their contours, their history of transformations, and became fascinated with specific fonts in which I had interest, like Helvetica and Times Roman. Along the way, I designed alphabets based on the circle, and I explored letterforms that had lateral symmetry, like E, B, H, etc. and produced small, short books about them.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis publication is an early graphic experiment. It announces Marcus’s ongoing exploration of letterform and kerning landscapes (the space between letters).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Metabooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54235550024019,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1068\/8898\/6963\/files\/Star_small_3fd60633-2700-4501-a754-df2fa9bf6efa.png?v=1783516798","url":"https:\/\/metabooks.art\/products\/parables-on-dropping-out","provider":"Metabooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}