Norman Ives, typeface as art. More about Ives: printmag

1/ Untitled, 1959. Collage. Synthetic polymer on canvas squares. 2/ Ionic-Reconstruction, 1965. Reconstruction: Red and white, canvas on canvas on masonite, polymer and dray pigment. 3/ Number 3-L, 1967. Synthetic polymer on canvas squares 4/ Reconstruction Eclipse. 1967. Bas-relief, black letter fragments. 5/ Centaur, 1973. Screenprint.

Ives’ design and art appeared to be an outlier of the percolating type-as-art movement that may have been popularized by Robert Indiana’s LOVE sculptures, but has since become ubiquitous not just in painting and sculpture but other massive architectural “type works.” Steven Heller.

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