It’s a nerd-out for people who love typography.” That’s how entrepreneur and Lumpen publisher Ed Marszewski describes Typeforce, the annual typographic-art show he cocurates with Dawn Hancock, the founder and managing director of local design studio Firebelly. This is Typeforce’s seventh year, and the event continues to grow in stature: Marszewski and Hancock received around 200 entries from all around Chicago, the country, and the world. Unfortunately, they can only showcase around 20 artists.
Turning type into art underlines (or rather, italicizes) how both language and art are forms of communication. Artists use images as a kind of speech, or, with the work in this exhibit, vice versa. All art talks to you, though in Typeforce the message may be a little easier to read. v
Through Fri 3/11; opening night Fri 2/26 6 PM Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219 S. Morgan 773-862-1232coprosperity.org Free
