‘26 Exchanges’ Exhibition to Feature at London Design Festival

Pentagram has collaborated with International PEN, 26 and UNESCO to produce 26 Exchanges: Journeys Between and Behind the Lines of Language, a typographic installation that explores what happens when one language adventures boldly into another. The exhibition will be on view as part of the London Design Festival.

For the exhibition, members of 26 were twinned with PEN members from around the world to translate a text and tell the story of its journey in translation. Using their own resources, the participants searched for ways to understand stories in Basque, Khasi, Ndebele and Aymara, among others, to find meaning and connections across cultures. Harry Pearce and Simon Sankarayya of AllofUs then reinterpreted the stories and accompanying issues of translation as typographic animations. The digital installation also features readings from and conversations between the participants. The project is also featured in Design Week.

The exhibition will be on view from September 21 - 25 at The Royal Academy of Engineering. It will then move to Paris in October for the UNESCO international conference on translation. More information here.