Typography > Stochastic Poetics
As with many of her other books, writer and artist Johanna Drucker produced all aspects of Stochastic Poetics: the writing, the printing, the selection of typeface and paper, and the binding. “Stochastic” means involving a random variable as with the weather, waves, and other fluid dynamic systems. Fittingly, each sheet went through the press numerous times and the placement, while not random, was not controlled by any register marks or jigs, making each copy unique.
Drucker also worked against the principle of quadrature, which is the principle according to which type is locked up in case at right angles. By contrast, the letters in this work are set at diagonal angles — a display of virtuosic printing. Edition of 39.