The Cooper Union in New York is hosting the fourth stop of ECAL A Typographic Atlas, a traveling exhibition featuring a selection of 300 typefaces created by ECAL's Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design students.
Presented as a typographic atlas, the exhibition is structured around a single indexing approach. This system is translated into a modular display designed by Adrien Rovero. Alphabetical entries and numerical coordinates form a navigational framework, inviting visitors to move through a typographic territory.
Typography is treated as a visual, cultural and linguistic practice, from experimental forms to functional families and multiscript projects, encouraging us to reconsider how type mediates everyday communication.
The project also takes the form of book of the same name, produced by Giliane Cachin and Eurostandard and published by Empire Books, which unfolds like a vast map covering the full range of genres across the contemporary typographic spectrum.
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22.06–03.08.2026
The Cooper Union
30 Cooper Square, New York, United States
EXHIBITIONS
Curated by Master Type Design and Bachelor Graphic Design programmes, this project presents a wide selection of 300 typefaces created by ECAL students from around the world.
EXHIBITIONS
Conceived as a travelling exhibition, ECAL A Typographic Atlas reflects ECAL’s long-standing commitment to contemporary graphic and type design.
EXHIBITIONS
As part of the presentation of ECAL A Typographic Atlas at Program/me, the launch of the exhibition's book, as well as a conference with typographers, teachers, researchers, and publishers, will also take place.