Parágrafos de gráfica y escritura 4 by Hugo Rivera‑Scott
Parágrafos de gráfica y escritura 4 (“Paragraphs of Graphics and Writing 4”) is the debut publication of Pacientes Editores, a small publishing house that produces low print-run publications by hand.
The edition was limited to 78 copies, each numbered and signed by the author, and printed on bond paper using a black and white laser printer. The cover is made of green flyleaf paper. The text was composed using the Violeta, Violeta Jardinera, and Chercán typeface families.
The text was originally published in Suelo Americano (2003), a magazine of the School of Architecture of the ARCIS University in Santiago de Chile. In this article, Professor Rivera-Scott shares with us his readings and critical views on the books he reads, from a perspective that is sensitive to editorial design and typography.
For Spanish readers: El suplemento literario La palabra Quebrada, del puerto de Valparaíso, publicó en marzo del 2022 una reseña sobre esta edición llamada Honrar el diseño: Parágrafos de Gráfica y Escritura de Hugo Rivera-Scott, escrita por Laura Flores Moraga.
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The Colección Papeles Ocasionales (“Occasional Papers Collection”) aims to bring together a series of different texts written by visual artist and professor Hugo Rivera-Scott throughout his career.
The text begins with a large initial letter from Violeta Jardinera, featuring two bird pictograms from Chercán’s glyph set.
In the first paragraph, the author recalls a fruit tree from his childhood that was visited by many little birds, among them the Chercán. This suggested the use of pictograms in several instances of the typesetting —as can be seen in the footnotes.
Another detail of the edition is that all the names of people mentioned in the text (set in Violeta), were composed with Chercán.
Towards the end, we included an index of names.
A detail from the top of the colophon, which is the page where the author numbered and signed each copy.
