Designing Writing
is an ongoing research on the materiality of language and on the library as a living organism.

It is ran by Alex Balgiu since 2016, with the participation of many guests and friends.

Please feel free to visit this diary or say hi!

River of Words | Fountain of Peace, an essay-homage to Ilse Garnier’s “La Meuse”, in “The Weight of the Concrete—Ezio Gribaudo” (Graz: Grazer Kunstverein, 2024) edited by Tom Engels and Lilou Vidal & designed by Federico Antonini

Notes on nodes, a visual score for active listening in “Graphic 50: Voice, Notes from Typojanchi 2023” (Seoul: Propaganda, 2023)

Intervals, an article on the in-between spaces of concrete poetry, in “MacGuffin n°13, The Letter” (Amsterdam, 2023), edited by Kirsten Algera & Ernst van der Hoeven and designed by Sandra Kassenaar

A quasi-library, a reading space and an asemantic letterpress poem conceived on the occasion of “Quasi: Experimental Writing Systems” at the Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography, in Pasadena (2024)