Year Date Project Unit Brief
1 5 February 2018 Brief A_On or Off Grid EGRD4007: Platform Rotation Consider the given text ‘13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird’ by Wallace Stevens. Design an experimental typographic layout of the poem that expresses your feelings and understanding about the poem. Poem overleaf and here for digitised text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird Try a variety of typefaces and fonts, perhaps using a range. Your motivation should be to understand the idea of text as image, information as illustration. In addition you can involve imagery or texture but the emphasis should strictly be on the typography. The very title should inspire you in considering different perspectives to move beyond the surface into metaphor or to stay matter of fact-like on the surface. How you visualise the poem is solely up to you but consideration of layout must be articulated. Are you on or off grid? Do you consider the use of a grid as a device to aid your design? or do you determine its composition solely by eye?
Constraints
The format is of your choice ie A4, A3, or B5, B2, folded and/or cropped but it should read as a booklet. No less than 16 pages including a front and back cover.
Outcome
Printed booklet using Indesign.
Schedule
Monday 5th Feb – Brief / Workshop Tuesday 6th Feb – Computer Room Drop in Session with Kristina Thursday 8th – Present Development work and mock ups for review at group Monday 12th Feb – Group Reviews Tuesday 13th Feb – Computer Room Drop in Session with Kristina Thursday 15th Feb – Final Critique
Reference/ Resources
Baines, Phil and Haslam, Andrew (2005) Type and Typography. London: Laurence King. Tomato, Mmm... Skyscraper I love you. Booth-clibborn Editions Bean, Victoria and McCabe, Chris (2015) The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century Poynor, Rick. Typographic Now. Booth-Clibborn Editions; 9th edition (Aug. 1994) Brockman, Muller. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers Oliver, Vaughan, Visceral Pleasures, Booth-Clibborn Editions John Warwicker – http://www.johnwarwicker.com/2001today/ Artists: Jordan Abel, Vito Acconci, mIEKAL aND, Tauba Auerbach, Fiona Banner, Simon Barraclough, Michael Basinski, Erica Baum, Victoria Bean, Derek Beaulieu, David Bellingham, Caroline Bergvall, Jen Bervin, Cecilie Bjørgås Jordheim, Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, Sean Bonney, Jean-François Bory, Pavel Büchler, Augusto de Campos, Francesca Capone, Antonio Claudio Carvalho, Bariş Çetinkol, Henri Chopin, Paula Claire, Thomas A. Clark, Bob Cobbing, Tom Comitta, Judith Copithorne, Simon Cutts, Natalie Czech, Bob Dahlquist, Wally Depew, Johanna Drucker, Jesse Patrick Ferguson, Peter Finch, Alec Finlay with Ray DiPalma, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Rachel E. Foster, S.J. Fowler, John Furnival, Philip Gallo, Ilse Garnier, Pierre Garnier, John Giorno, Marco Giovenale, Eugen Gomringer, Roel Goussey, Scott Helmes, Henningham Family Press, Sophie Herxheimer, James Hoff, Karl Holmqvist, Jenny Holzer, Susan Howe, Geof Huth, Serkan Işın, Tom Jenks, Julie Johnstone, Leandro Katz, Sarah Kelly, Ronald King, John Kinsella, Anatol Knotek, Christopher Knowles, Márton Koppány, Richard Kostelanetz, Daniel Lehan, Ruark Lewis, Simon Lewty, Liliane Lijn, Tony Lopez with John S. Webb, Donato Mancini, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Hansjörg Mayer, Chris McCabe, Steve McCaffery, Kevin Mcpherson eckhoff, nick-e melville, David Miller, Stuart Mills, Franz Mon, Robert Montgomery, Edwin Morgan, Gustav Morin, Rick Myers, Clemente Padin, Tom Phillips, Décio Pignatari, Jörg Piringer, Cia Rinne, Colin Sackett, Aram Saroyan, Richard Skelton, W. Mark Sutherland, Greg Thomas, Nick Thurston, Sue Tompkins, Andrew Topel, Cecil Touchon, Barrie Tullett, André Vallias, Nico Vassilakis, Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, Sam Winston, Cerith Wyn Evans, Ercan y Yılmaz and Eric Zboya. uca Epsom BA (Hons) Graphic Design/ BA (Hons) Digital Communication Design
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird BY WALLACE STEVENS I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree In which there are three blackbirds. III The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime. IV A man and a woman Are one. A man and a woman and a blackbird Are one.
XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach. Once, a fear pierced him, In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds. XII The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying. XIII It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs. Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. Copyright 1954 by Wallace Stevens. Reprinted with the permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
V I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after. VI Icicles filled the long window With barbaric glass. The shadow of the blackbird Crossed it, to and fro. The mood Traced in the shadow An indecipherable cause. VII O thin men of Haddam, Why do you imagine golden birds? Do you not see how the blackbird Walks around the feet Of the women about you? VIII I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know. IX When the blackbird flew out of sight, It marked the edge Of one of many circles. X At the sight of blackbirds Flying in a green light, Even the bawds of euphony Would cry out sharply. uca Epsom BA (Hons) Graphic Design
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