Typography:
Moving Verse as an Exquisite Corpse || Assignment 3
Classes 7, 8, 9, 10
Developed by the Surrealists in 1925, the Exquisite Corpse is a drawing
game which requires that each participant adds sequentially to a collective
composition without having knowledge of the previous drawings on the
paper. In its original format, one artist would start the game by drawing
on a sheet of paper. When her/his section was complete, s/he would fold
over the paper so only a small section was visible and pass the paper
to the next player, who would compose another section of the drawing.
This process continued until the end of the paper. When the sheet was
complete, the entire paper would be unfolded and the collaborative composition
revealed. Using flash and HTML, the class will be break up into 3 groups
to create 3 exquisite corpse poems. Each group will select a
poem with a minimum of one stanza per person and assign a stanza to each
student. On Monday, March 19th, each student will bring in a printout
of the last scene of her/his stanzas. Each student will be required to
start her/his typography animation using the scene supplied by her/his
fellow student. On
March 26 and April 2nd we will view the collaborative typographic poems.
Group I: Daniela, EunYoung, Elizabeth
Group II: Jessica, GyuNam, ChiWon, Moe
Group III: Darren, Esther, ChiaChien and Julia
Assignment 3 Deadlines
Monday, March 19, 2006
Guest Lecture: Gicheol Lee, Flash Designer/Programmer
at Firstborn
Multimedia.
Link to Gicheol's presentation site
Bring to class a printed out hardcopy screen grab of the final scene
(ONLY) of your proposed flash or HTML animation of your poem stanza.
Also arrange with your partners to email them a digital copy of your
screen grab.
Monday, March 26, 2006
Prepare to disucss and presesnt your assigned section from Ellen Lupton's "Thinking
with Type".
Group I presents final Exquisite Corpse project.
Monday, April 2, 2006
Groups II and III present final Exquisite Corpse projects.
Choose a poem:
Each group should select either a poem of their own choosing or
one from those listed below to use as the content for your group's exquisite
corpse.
Rainer
Maria Rilke
Spanish
Dancer
or
Evening
e.e.
cummings
but
the other
Robert
Frost
Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Requirements for each student's final stanza of
the collaborative poem:
1. Using Flash and/or HTML, create a motion type animation that conveys the meaning
of the poem.
2. Within your animated stanza, you must have 3 distinct scenes (flash) or links
to 3 new pages (HTML).
3. Observe how the meaning of the poem changes when a particular word is isolated.
4. Work carefully with each line and word of type. Make visual and conceptual
connections between the words.
5. You can mix images with type in this assignment.
6. Think carefully about which words will have links and why. What do they link
to?
7. Final work must be delivered online.
Texts:
Required Reading:
Thinking With Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors
+ Students"
by Ellen Lupton
(A xerox will be supplied. Pages from the chapter on "Text" will be broken
up and assigned to each student.)
Suggested Reading:
Moving
Type: Designing for Time and Space
by Matt Woolman and Jeff Bellantoni
Resources
Web sites:
Flash Tutorials Recommended by Moe:
http://www.gotoandlearn.com
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/download.php
Exquisite Corpse Example:
An Exquisite Corpse
A software run exquisite corpse engine. There are several good static
examples of exquiste corpse projects on this website.
The Exquisite Corpse by Sharon Denning
A database text example of an expandable exquisite corpse fine art project.
TypePlay Examples WITH Images:
Yugo Nakamura
Mono*Crafts 2.0 (1998-1999)
Gicheol Lee
Typorganism
1/26/04 Flash Typography presentation (link
to Gicheol's demos)
www.uncontrol.com
(ed by Manny Tan)
Look at 100
million poems by Robert Massin
(9 squares over, 1 square down)
Volume One
Look at "Seasons" design experiments
http://www.volumeone.com
Web sites:
TypePlay Examples WITHOUT Images:
Y0UNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES
http://www.yhchang.com
Interview with Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/younghae/interview.html
Candy Factory Projects presents Boogie Woogie Wonderland (exhibition web
site)
Look at John Miller and Young-Hae Chang
http://www.trans.artnet.or.jp/~transart/
Brian Kim Stefans: The Dream Life of Letters
http://www.arras.net/RNG/flash/dreamlife/dreamlife_index.html
SF MOMA: 010101 Exhibition website
http://010101.sfmoma.org/start.html
Martin Wattenberg: Stream of Consciousness
http://www.bewitched.com/m/word/association.html
Lair of the Marrow Monkey: Eric Loyer
(beautiful type and narrative in dataspace – also uses deconstructed
interface ideas
http://www.marrowmonkey.com
Bembo's Zoo
http://www.bemboszoo.com/Bembo.swf
Web sites:
Motion Graphics
Digital Kitchen (type only works by this motion graphcis firm)
Artist Against Piracy: Circle C Acoustic:30
http://www.d-kitchen.com/work/quicktime/320x240/aap_o_320_qt.html
Artist Against Piracy: Circle C Electric:30
http://www.d-kitchen.com/work/quicktime/320x240/aap_g_320_qt.html
Flux Group website (Chicago motion graphics firm -- site is a good example
of type use)
http://www.fluxgroup.com/indexflash.html
Brand New School (type only works by this NYC motion graphics firm)
JD Edwards Commercial
http://www.brandnewschool.com/movie.php?aID=28&aMovie=JDEdwards.mov
ABC Promo
http://www.brandnewschool.com/movie.php?aID=79&aMovie=Open.mov
The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch Promo (Good use of handwritten text)
http://www.brandnewschool.com/movie.php?aID=208&aMovie=The_Big_Idea.mov
Andersen Consulting "How"
http://www.brandnewschool.com/movie.php?aID=3&aMovie=Andersen.mov
Web sites:
Typography
Typographic.com
http://www.typographic.com
Typography: A List Apart
http://www.alistapart.com/topics/typography
Scott Hamlin: Better Text in Motion
http://www.eyewire.com/magazine/columns/scott/fontfolly>
Web sites:
Fonts
e-type (Danish design firm)
Playtype (Creative/interactive website for fonts by above)
www.playtype.com
Atomic Media
http://atomicmedia.net
Fonts for Flash
http://www.fontsforflash.com
Fonts: Freeware on Flashkit
http://www.flashkit.com/fonts/Freeware
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