Rich Text

From Strike Design Studio, a trans-disciplinary digital design studio.

Rich Text:

Rich Text traces how formatting tools, hypertext, desktop publishing, and interface design have both liberated and constrained expression, and reveals rich text formatting as a site of resistance where users wield boldface, italics, links, and raw code to reclaim autonomy. By sliding between the gaps in code, it questions whether software that promises ease and access actually narrows our imaginative and political possibility. Rich Text invites work that subverts algorithmic rankings, including slutty superstitious fan-fictions, gay gossip, and other creative and criminal clickbait that seduces platform users toward the more counter-cultural crevices of the world wide web. 

London, U.K.; 10x12cm, 136 pages,