Reflect, evaluate and reworkHaving printed your 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 had hoped?… Continue reading Exercise 4: Collating and binding
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Exercise 3: Sequencing images
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 set of… Continue reading Exercise 3: Sequencing images
Exercise 2: Concrete Poetry
Critical writing taskIdentify an example of concrete poetry and write a short critique of the content, design and the relationship between the content and form. How has the use of typography, layout, and space been employed to help generate meaning? Print out a copy of the poem and add notes directly onto the page. Write… Continue reading Exercise 2: Concrete Poetry
Exercise 1: Paper/ephemera
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 and… Continue reading Exercise 1: Paper/ephemera
Research task: Exploring artists’ books
Find two artists’ books that you feel demonstrate an interesting relationship between their form and content through the materials that the artist has chosen to use. Reflect on these books in your learning log. Sandra Turley – This Original Self “It’s about self-discovery. It’s a study of identity… The images of a face are barely… Continue reading Research task: Exploring artists’ books
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