With only a week to go until our first Visual Web Design Master Class in London, I’ve been taking time away from client work to focus on writing all new content that I hope people attending will really love.
It is really important to me that I stretch my own limits when I make content for a new workshop. I hope that if I get excited and passionate about my content, then people attending will do the same.
This time I chose to do something a bit different. I chose to typeset each of the five parts of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot. My self-set challenges were:
I will write a detailed article about my The Waste Land layouts after next week's workshop, but in the meantime here are screen-captures of each of them.
A layout based an archetypal classical double-page spread.
Layout created from a Fibonacci squares based grid.
A newspaper inspired approach where the column width was based on the measure and the number of columns was dictated by the measure and the layout width.
A simple, striking, elastic layout based on the measure.
An unusual combination of two grids with perspective and scale, inspired by an architectural photograph.
I found working with poetry as subject matter fascinating and if you need an injection of inspiration in your design work, step away from your client work and spend a few hours typesetting a piece of verse.
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24th Nov 2008I love the minimalism of websites purely based on type. It’s something that I strive to achieve as being a developer I struggle to make anything look even remotely nice in photoshop/illustrator :P
I think that I might take you up on the advice to typeset a verse, boosts skills as well as, I would imagine, being rather relaxing.
It’s a shame that I can’t make it to the master class, I look forwards to seeing the articles after the event!
24th Nov 2008Really beautiful work! It’s times like this that I wished I lived in the U.K. or could at least afford to make a quick trip over.
25th Nov 2008Nice job Andy! Best Wishes in the future…
25th Nov 2008Academic exercises like this make CSS look so sexy and perfect and easy! I so wish it were that way in the real world…or that I could just do stuff like this for a living.
25th Nov 2008Andy,
all I can say is - simply beautiful.
... to have the luxury of time to play with CSS for sheer pleasure - looking forward to the workshop :-)
26th Nov 2008@Clinton Montague: It’s a shame that you can’t make it to the workshop this time, maybe we’ll see you at a future event.
@Jason Armstrong: I hope that we’ll be able to bring a few events to the US next year, maybe in partnership with another conference organizer or another event
@Jeff Croft: CSS is sexy and perfect and easy. And I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter really tastes like butter too.
@Prisca: I’m looking forward to seeing you next week too. The time to do this wasn’t really a luxury. As you’ll see on Monday, I haven’t been sleeping much lately.
26th Nov 2008Love the newspaper inspired one…looking forward to the workshop!
26th Nov 2008Andy, I didn’t mean it like that :)
Looking at your samples here - only made wish I had the luxury of time to play, create some beautiful design just for the sake of it ;-)
Glad I can at least indulge in your creations on monday :)