Know Your ABCs: Alphabet at Domy Books [Art Preview]

For many designers and artists, typeface is an obsessive indulgence; after all, we are constantly visually inundated by the twenty six forms that make up our alphabet. An exhibit honoring the art of type is opening tonight at Domy Books. Alphabet will feature dozens of artists and their innovative interpretations of our lettering system including hand drawn illustrations, experimental typography, found objects, and mixed media installations. Work by well known type designers including Ken Barber and Ed Fella will be joined by that of rising artists such as Hjärta Smärta and Andrew Jeffery Wright (who had a solo exhibit at Domy back in March). Influential modernist Elaine Lusting Cohen has contributed a rendition of the alphabet made up of geometric letterpressed figures; the piece pays tribute to her late husband, designer Alvin Lustig.

Alphabet was originally organized by Baltimore's Artscape, an annual arts festival in collaboration with Baltimore design studio Post Typography. Tonight's opening coincides with first day of the How Magazine Design Conference, which is being held in Austin through Saturday. Alphabet is being brought to Domy's Project Space by The Decoder Ring Design Concern, Blair Richardson's Little Mule Studio, and by the number four.