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Collections Tour: Concrete Poetry
with Milosh Sokolikj, Christina Newhard
Explore a facet of Letterform Archive’s vast collection with this online, docent-led tour.
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While concrete poetry is a fairly modern term, the practice of merging typographic composition with poetry is millennia-old. This tour provides glimpses into this rich art form, starting with its predecessors and some of the earliest examples, moving to iconic objects, and bringing us to today's landscape and the question—what's next?
Our docents for this online tour are Milosh Sokolikj and Christina Newhard.
This tour was made possible by a generous grant from Hauser & Wirth.
Milosh Sokolikj
Milosh Sokolikj (he/him) is a service designer working in the field of social innovation where he focuses on making innovation processes user-centered and participatory. He loves type because it lies at the intersection of some of his favorite things—design, language, and books. Milosh believes archives are as much about preserving the past as they are about inspiring and shaping our futures.
Christina Newhard
Christina Newhard (she/her) is designer, writer, publisher, and full-time servant to her cat, Princess Genghis. She earned her BFA from the University of Florida in 1996, and has been a designer and type nerd ever since. Her past clients include the Smithsonian Institute, The “me too.” Movement, Penguin Random House, the New Press, Democracy for the Arab World Now, and NYU. In 2012, she founded Sari-Sari Storybooks, a press devoted to Filipino picture books, and has published five titles in underrepresented Philippine languages. Christina hails from Manila, Florida, New York City, and Oakland, in that order. She is most at home in a city by the wate