This cross-section of work exemplifies projects that fall under the rubric of experimental typography, where the material word becomes a catalyst for the visual evocation of ideas. Students explore intelligent, engaging ways to reveal visual meaning by freely manipulating letters, words, and elemental shapes.
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Project Name: Various
Project Level: Years 1, 2 & 3
The printed value evokes its countervalue and the two together determine the overall form. — Emil Ruder
I am convinced that intensive investigation of elementary typographic exercises is a prerequisite for the solution of complex typographic problems. — Wolfgang Weingart
A person's a person, no matter how small. — Dr. Seuss
As photography can capture a moment in time, typographic arrangements can express the essence and soul of a speech in its most intense form. Typography as an artform has a close relationship to photography. — Unknown
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. — William Feather
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. — John Berger
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. — John Berger
Twas brillig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe. — Lewis Carroll