Crux95
Artist
Brett Wickens
Canada, born 1961
Date1995
Dimensions23 3/8 x 16 1/2 in. (59.4 x 41.9 cm)
ClassificationsPoster
Credit LinePoster House Permanent Collection
Object numberPH.7573
DescriptionAlso created for issue 14 of FUSE (Cyber), Crux95 distorts standard letterforms through sets of binary options that shift or remove portions of a glyph. The central text, “without you I’m zero,” playfully references the series of 1s and 0s that comprise binary code. Brett Wickens was inspired by Alan Bartram’s article “Reading by Machine” in the June 1962 issue of Typographica. In it, Bartram explores how degraded a font can become before a machine is no longer able to recognize it.On View
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