An experiment

While I'm pretty set on wanting to present the text in one long vertical strip ("cinematically," as my wonderful classmate said on Monday) I wanted to see what would happen if I scrapped that idea momentarily and made the poem into a poster. Here's what I have after playing around for a couple hours. Not sure how far I want to take it.

repost in pieces

I realized the large image wasn't showing up from my previous post. Here it is again, in sections.






The tail end of this is still a little raggedy - I'm going to keep working on it.

type specimen book - first attempt

Here's a type specimen attempt for y'all to peruse.

The text is (in my opinion)the world's best-written mid-life crisis - T. S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.


The poem stores as an accordion-book. I'll post a version with markings for the folds shortly.

Detail:




Fonts used, in order of appearance:

Verdana italic
Gill Sans
Affair
Bodoni Poster
Avant Garde
Adobe Caslon Pro
International Disgrace
Chicken
Futura
Candice
Cataneo
CG Nashville


Next step: incorporating color...

First post

Font overload!