Concept
On display at the ADI Design Museum for the first time is the complete series of “Manuali Tipografici” hand-composed in movable type by Tallone Publishing House, which has now completed the series, inaugurated in 2005, with the publication of the “Aesthetic Supplement to the Typographic Manuals.” Inspired, in concept and aesthetic value, by Fournier’s and Bodoni’s “Manuali Tipografici,” entirely composed by hand and each pulled in 300 numbered copies, they celebrate the aesthetics of the book in all its aspects (typefaces, layouts, papers, watermarks and inks) through original findings and essays by Italian, French, English and U.S. experts. The “Manuali Tipografici” – the only ones composed by hand two hundred years after Giambattista Bodoni’s masterpiece of the same name – lead us to the root of written communication and the mystery that binds forms, sounds and content, making the book-object a talisman, today as yesterday. The series aims to celebrate the book in its many aspects, material and intellectual. It describes and shows from life centuries of typographic and papermaking civilization through original exhibits that include: papers and watermarks from all centuries of the printed book; examples of twentieth-century inks and typefaces from the eighteenth to the twentieth century; and pages from Tallone editions printed in Paris and Italy. Accanto ai Manuali sarà esposta la collana “Archive of Styles”, composta a mano con i caratteri da stampa più iconici della modernità che hanno contraddistinto la storia della grafica e della pubblicità, facenti parte anche essi della vasta dotazione di caratteri mobili dell’Editore Tallone.
