Found Type

5 examples (taken from concrete poetry : a world view.)

Exercise 1 & 2: Adrian John Ross Moore

Innovation in Page Layout

Circular Magazine | Pentagram for The Typography Circle

Heimat° | Simon Rajiv Becke

POPSHOT Magazine Issue Two: Us and Them

Slanted Magazine # 11 Monospace, Typewriter

Voyage en avion | Adeline Mollard

Play script which describes the meeting between two people in a plane. The typographical language changes slowly according to the feelings of the two passengers.

wk7 talking point : format & grid system

As a book on women working with typography (typographers, graphic designers etc), I wanted to create a book that felt more like a display book of the women featured, as opposed to a dense text-heavy document. I also wanted it to be reasonably portable, but still within the size restrictions of the project, and eventually decided on a square format of 250mm x 250mm. The measurements of the page also provided me with a variety of multiples to use for the margin dimensions, gutter widths, and possibly also the number of columns and rows.

The first of my possible grid systems is a modular grid of 8x8 columns and rows. After looking at existing examples, the modular grid appealed to me due to its flexibility of placing small chunks of text and images on a page at rather irregular intervals, whilst still appearing spacious and balanced. The second is a column-based grid of 7 columns, of which I liked this grid system's ability to have repeated sections of flowing text down the length of the page and separate columns for different things.

The rest of TJ's Exercise 2


Example 1 (apologies if this font is massive, I think there's a booger in the matrix)
These pages are taken from Diary of a Bad Year by one of my favorite human beings and all-time favorite writer, John Maxwell Coetzee, but I know this ain't Oprah's Book Club so I digress. If you zoom in close up you'll see that there are three dialogues running concurrently and furthermore the bottom two voices don't finish or start at the same point as the main body of writing so when you read it you really do need to turn off the stereo and lock the kids in the tool shed - it's mildlly challenging to say the least - however it's amazing what becomes habit quite quickly and to that end I highly recommend this book to all of you, as I do all of Coetzee's back catalogue, except maybe Dusklands, which, after two point five reads, I still cannot fathom. Alas this is turning into a novella in itself so I'll sign off for now. You can take yourselves through the remaining examples as it's getting quite late and as you do please note Example 6, the "NKOTM" (new kids on the magazine) which I hope gives you a little chuckle just as it did me. Nightie night.

TJ

TJ's Exercise 2 Homework: the other bit
(the 'innovation in page layout' bit)


Example 1.
Okay so maybe the level of innovation is debatable but geez I love a good primary colour. The publication is called IT'S NICE THAT, and please allow me to guide you through the visuals.
A's: can you guess which issue this is?
B's: this one's a bit harder... it's issue three.
C's: look out kids, centralised layout is back in the good books.
D's: I dig how the feature heading is shown via a process of elimination. Cool huh?


And now for Example 2.
Kurt Cobain gives the typewriter a bash for a journal entry with stunning effect (or is that just his number one fan being biased?) No but seriously guys think about how much thought, planning, layout, maths and rules go into a page layout and then appreciate how simply this wee gem of rubbish with all its juvenile corrections and BLURTING OUT makes a fairly decent impact on the viewer, and maybe even the reader.

OK so that's me done, and as per usual ladies and gentlemen, the pleasure was all mine.
TJ