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In Typography class, I had to write an essay about a formidable type designer. Fine, but not exactly thrilling homework. But THEN, an exciting twist – I got explore and push the limits of body copy as I turned my essay into a typographic poster!
It was a happy accident that my essay started and ended with “long, long time,” giving me a strong concept to illustrate. We also had to consider things like paragraph breaks – how would they be indicated? I choose a shape reminiscent of a grain of sand. Feel free to read the whole thing.
Success, the Claude Garamond Way
I assume that the artistic presentation was not a pre-requisite for the assignment and also that you are, in fact, using Garamond in the poster? Is it just center-justification with manual line-breaks?
I LOVE it!!!!
Yes, it was – part two of the assignment. That would indeed be Garamond, and no, we’re talking about flowing text through an hourglass-shaped text box here and lots of additional hand-kerning at the end.
Rachel this is genius. a good essay too.
rachel i love this. SO MUCH.