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2014-10-27

MZIN NEWS: OUR POLITE SOCIETY — VAGUELY SPECIFIED OBJECTS (-)

This publication has been published on the occasion of Our Polite Society's exhibition at the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival in Chaumont.

In the publication and in the exhibition in Chaumont, Our Polite Society measures the distance between their studio in Amsterdam and Chaumont.
The exhibition in Chaumont and OPS's studio are separated by three countries and an infinite number of signs. Using the train ride as a pretext, the two designers have sampled the signage forms of the Dutch, Belgian and French railway systems: an authorless visual language that is meaningless to most of the travellers and designers. Hypervisual, this vocabulary of shapes is above all encapsulated in a numerical typography. The format allows for an appropriation of the shapes by the graphic designers in real time and calls for a diffusion and an implementation by a real composition.

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