Sunday, 29 January 2012

Poetry Publication, thinking

I want to explore a further, more interesting approach to type and layout for this brief. I began to enjoy it more and started to design with it for my National Portrait Gallery guide.

I like the idea of communicating my poetry through using interesting and creative type and layout. I haven't yet decided on the full content, which poems, and what imagery to include (if any), and colour. What I do know is that as part of my practice, even if it's just for my own self-appreciation, I want to research, and design using abnormal type and layout.

I found this website http://explorationsintypography.com/, enables you to learn the basics by applying type and layout aspects to a given paragraph. Here are some images from the book:






I also found a link to Jihad Lahham's website, he specialises in visual communicating, I like his different approach to type and layout. I feel it could work effectively when writing poetry,