ABC Stefan by Stefan Marx
ABC Stefan is an artist-specimen-accordian-book hybrid designed by Dinamo and veryes, which examines what it means to take something as personal as an artist’s handwriting and make it accessible for others to use. Published to celebrate the release of ABC Stefan — a digitization of the artist Stefan Marx’s personal handwriting — the artist book features 2.5m of glyphs, Stefan Marx's A-Z of drawings, an essay by design writer and curator Billie Muraben, and a poem-artwork by the grandfather of zine-making, AA Bronson.
Credits
Drawings and handwriting: Stefan Marx
Writing: Billie Muraben, AA Bronson
Design: Simon Merz, veryes
Editing: Madeleine Morley
Creative Direction: Johannes Breyer, Simon Merz
Typeface: ABC Stefan by Dinamo (Stefan Marx, Erkin Karamemet, Johannes Breyer, Tanja Modrakovic)
Printing and binding: DZA Druckerei zu Altenburg
Specimen texts and drawings found in Stefan Marx's notebooks (2019-2025)
Published by Dinamo Editions & Stefan Marx
ISBN 978-3-910551-26-8
First Edition