Page 1 Great Expectations

'Page 1: Great Expectations' is an unusual typographic experiment designed to explore the relationship between graphic design, typography and the reading of a page. Crafted to engage the culturally curious, this publication collects the responses of 70 international graphic designers when posed with the same brief to design and lay out the first page of 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens, a text chosen in part because it directly references lettering as Pip searches for clues about his family from the letterforms inscribed on their tombstone. Each layout is accompanied by a short rationale explaining the designers decision-making process.