This intensive way of working places an inevitable limit on the number of titles published, though the number of books printed is relatively large: they circulate in the ordinary book trade and are widely distributed. These books, though published in London, show a strong leaning towards the European continent both in their content and in where they are printed and bound.

In recent years the Hyphen list of books has diversified. While the core subject remains design, and especially typography, true to the vision of its founding book these concerns are seen in a wider context: literature,music, architecture, art, politics.

This exhibition focuses on a fundamental factor in making and publishing books: format. What size should the pages of a book be given? The question raises all the considerations of publishing. Who will read this work? And where? How will it be made? With what paper? By which printer? On which press? How does it connect to the other books we publish? What is the happiest size for these pictures and this text?