Category Archives: Part 4

Reflect, evaluate and rework Having printed tour images from the previous exercise, take the opportunity to view all of the pages, reflect on them and evaluate before moving on to the next step of collating and binding the pages together. Which pages are successful? Which pages have not turned out as well as you hadContinue reading “Exercise 4: Collating and Binding”

Brief: In this exercise you’re going to create images which you’ll then print onto the papers you collected in the first exercise. You have been working with the poem Tango With Cows in the exercise ‘Concrete Poetry’, to create an experimental text. Using your interpretation of the poem as a starting point, develop a setContinue reading “Exercise 3: Sequencing Images”

Brief: Concrete poetry, sometimes referred to as visual poetry is a form of experimental typography where the use of letter and word arrangements enhance the meaning of a poem. The typographic treatment of words within concrete poetry starts to add additional resonances through their scale, placement, overlay and styling, suggesting new ways to see andContinue reading “Exercise 2: Concrete Poetry”

To begin: Collect a wide variety of paper samples and other paper ephemera across a range of weights, textures and surface finishes. This builds on your previous paper sample exercise from Part two. Aim to collect a wide range of unprinted papers, such as blotting paper, tracing paper, lined paper, graph paper, rice paper andContinue reading “Exercise 1: Paper/Ephemera”