Statement and Counter-Statement 2: Typologies/Typographies/Topologies/Topographies is Experimental Jetset's second dense monograph instalment, arriving a decade after the first and assembling ten years of graphic design practice alongside critical essays from some of the field's most incisive voices.
About This Book
Amsterdam-based graphic design collective Experimental Jetset has long occupied a singular position in contemporary design: deeply theoretical, historically grounded, and resistant to the cycles of trend that consume much of the discipline. This second volume of their monograph — edited and designed by the collective themselves — covers work produced between 2015 and 2025, paired with essays by James Goggin, Lieven Lahaye, Greil Marcus, Yasmil Raymond, and Lucy Sante. The result is a 656-page document that is as much a critical inquiry into graphic design's relationship to language, space, and form as it is a portfolio. At this scale and density, it functions as a primary reference for anyone serious about contemporary typography and design theory.
Key Features
- 656 pages of design work and critical writing spanning a decade of Experimental Jetset practice
- Essays by James Goggin, Lieven Lahaye, Greil Marcus, Yasmil Raymond, and Lucy Sante
- Compiled and edited by James Goggin
- Published by Roma Publications, 2025
What You'll Discover
- A decade of Experimental Jetset's graphic design output, contextualised through the collective's own writing and interviews from 2015 to 2025
- How the book's four-part title — typologies, typographies, topologies, topographies — maps the conceptual terrain the collective works across, linking type systems to spatial and cultural structures
- Critical perspectives from writers outside design — including Greil Marcus and Lucy Sante — that situate Experimental Jetset's practice within broader cultural and political contexts
- The editorial and design methodology of the collective applied reflexively to the monograph itself, making the book a designed argument as much as a document
About the Author
Experimental Jetset is an Amsterdam-based graphic design collective. Their practice is characterised by a sustained engagement with modernist design history, language, and the material conditions of printed matter. James Goggin compiled and edited the textual content of this volume.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 656
- Dimensions: 10 × 18 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789464460995
- Publisher: Roma Publications
- Publication Date: 2025
Perfect For: Graphic designers, typographers, design theorists, and anyone tracking the intellectual development of one of contemporary design's most rigorous practices.