One to One: The Visual Culture of International Tickets

From around the world, this book houses a collection of over 2,500 various ticket stubs dating from the past two decades. The opus of Tanja Backe, these tickets come from every imaginable source: airplane, train, ferry, bus, metro, cloakroom and parking tickets, bank and taxi receipts, inspection labels, admission tickets for museums, theatres, cinemas, circuses, operas, zoos, concerts, ballets, even reptile shows. The collection sampling of all kinds of occasions and cultural events. Non-chronological and non-linear, the book can be navigated according to individual preference and logic. The collection reprints the tickets at true size, one-to-one, organized according to color and hue. Backe guides us through the variety of typefaces, languages, formats, styles, backgrounds, identities, illustrations, and other graphic elements contained in this sweeping collection. Fascinatingly small, the ticket is a unique and intriguing format, one that demands efficiency, utility, and that can become a thing of high design and ingenuity.