23–125. Cao Fang, “Live Culture, Type Culture,” poster

Designed for an international poster exhibition, collaged and layered signs, calligraphic writing, and typographic characters illustrate the history of writing and printing, including the earliest ink on paper, typeforms from cuneiforms, Pi Sheng’s invention of movable type in Asia, and Gutenberg’s invention of movable type in Europe. The bold Chinese character repeated across the poster is the logogram for “living.”