Electro Library
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[Lissitzky, Topography of Typography]
1. The words on the printed surface are taken in by seeing, not by
hearing.
2. One communicates meanings through the convention of words; meaning
attains form through letters.
3. Economy of expression: optics not phonetics.
4. The design of the book-space, set according to the constraints
of printing mechanics, must correspond to the tensions and pressures
of content.
5. The design of the book-space using process blocks which issue from
the new optics. The supernatural reality of the perfected eye.
6. The continuous sequence of pages: the bioscopic book.
7. The new book demands the new writer. Inkpot and quill-pen are dead.
8. The printed surface transcends space and time. The printed surface,
the infinity of books, must be transcended.
THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY
First published in Merz no. 4 (Hannover: July 1923).
