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If nothing else, AI has prompted introspection on creative methodologies, a reappraisal of our relationship to technology. We must question. What is it that we do that a machine will never be able to? What is an essentially “human” typographic experience? Can AI be fully commanded, and interrogated, or will technology sanitize our vision and

French writer and librarian Charles Nodier distinguished between “bibliophiles” who know how to select books and “bibliomaniacs” who hoard and amass them. The bibliophile puts a book in its right place on the shelf after having explored it with all the resources of sense and imagination; the bibliomaniac stacks his books without ever looking at