During teaching week 3 we were introduced to some very interesting aspects of the content for this module. Through visual examples we were to question the use of text for visual communication in connection to historical art movements such as the Avant-garde's calligrams, Futurist, Dada and Bauhaus, contemporary art installations, e-poetry, web and iPhone apps.
During this lecture I was most intrigued by Avant-garde calligrams. The following link http://designhistory.org/Avant_Garde_pages/Futurism.html provided me with several good ideas for the project we will produce. It is interesting to note that typography as a means of visual communication has been going on for many years and is still a popular interactive method.
When doing some research, I came across this blog/forum where a person by the name Kris Madden discusses calligrams. "(...) Turns out a calligram "is a poem, phrase, or word in which the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting is arranged in a way that creates a visual image. Here's a classic example of the calligram form from Calligrammes by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. Similar to concrete poetry, calligrams utilize more typographic elements in their presentation than visual structure to present their meaning to the reader".
I also found some additional examples of Guillaume Apollinaire's work as it is very inspirational and interesting to see what he made out of the realm of concrete poetry.
During this lecture I was most intrigued by Avant-garde calligrams. The following link http://designhistory.org/Avant_Garde_pages/Futurism.html provided me with several good ideas for the project we will produce. It is interesting to note that typography as a means of visual communication has been going on for many years and is still a popular interactive method.
When doing some research, I came across this blog/forum where a person by the name Kris Madden discusses calligrams. "(...) Turns out a calligram "is a poem, phrase, or word in which the typeface, calligraphy or handwriting is arranged in a way that creates a visual image. Here's a classic example of the calligram form from Calligrammes by the French author Guillaume Apollinaire. Similar to concrete poetry, calligrams utilize more typographic elements in their presentation than visual structure to present their meaning to the reader".
I also found some additional examples of Guillaume Apollinaire's work as it is very inspirational and interesting to see what he made out of the realm of concrete poetry.
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