Typographic design for ‘Classanoia’ by Paul O’Kane

Typographic design and additional aspects of design for this book, in collaboration with the publisher eeodo. Original edition first produced Autumn 2024. With addition of second edition (pinker cover) in September 2025.

The design evolved through discussion with the author Paul O’Kane and his intention to write something that represented the start of a line of thoughful enquiry and not a definitive or closed argument. These ideas were to be shared in a form that should suggest that they would likely be overwritten and shaped through interaction with others. He liked the idea of a typewriter typeface as a visual cue for the pamphlet-like nature of this publication. Classanoia is typeset using the typefaces Courier Prime and Intimo using a blue ink hinting at old duplication technologies of self-publishing. Typographic illustrations help bring definitions to the different sections of the essay.

Printed by Tony Yard with Scott House at the London College of Communication Print Studio

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