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Vladimir Mayakovsky. Dlia golosa (For the Voice), book design by el Lissitzky, 1923
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12017-03-26T10:58:33-07:00Book Page Project Proposals21Description of project options and examples of historical precedents from the Russian Avant-gardeplain2017-03-28T19:32:37-07:00ASSIGNMENT PROMPT (DUE Tuesday, 3/28 midnight) Students in ARTS 227 and CSLC 134 / RUSN 334 will collaborate in small groups of 2-3 students on the design, creation and use of print materials to produce one page contribution to a limited edition of a course book inspired by examples from the Russian/Soviet Avant-garde. Text can be composed in any of a variety of styles, from traditionally rhyming and metrically regular to zaum. Layout, design and distribution of text are similarly freed for expression or provocation.
Each student is required to submit a brief (paragraph-length) statement of intent in the form of a Comment submitted by clicking the Comment (speech bubble) button at the very bottom of this page (make sure to scroll past the last media window for "Tango with Cows"). Each statement should indicate which "type" of project it will be (see below), as well as any formal properties the content will have (e.g. text length, layout, graphics, imagery).
Parameters
Groups must have at least one member from each course
Each student must submit a proposal
You may consult with other members of your "Flagration of Vowls" group to propose a joint project
Projects submitted individually will be grouped by the professoriate on the basis of similarity or compatibility
Project "types" describe a prototype or precedent, materials and method, but you do not have to emulate the suggested examples
To facilitate project work, we have to constrain the possible approaches to a reasonable number. For your proposals, please select an option from any of the three project types:
A simulated lithograph, using the more current "flexographic" technology using Photo Polymer Printing Plates. This method enables free-hand writing and illustration, of the sort exemplified in the famous early zaum poem, "Dyr bul shchyl," by Aleksei Kruchenykh, illustrated by Mikhail Larionov.
Suprematist-inspired graphics, using geometric and semi-regular shapes to compose letters, designs, and scattered decorative fragments, such as "Nash marsh" (Our March) from Dlia golosa (1923), a collection of poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, with typographic/illustrative design by el Lissitzky.
Moveable type. This approach allows free and expressive arrangements of consistent or mixed type blocks, such as lidandtIU FarAm (1923), a "Dra" (dramatic play) by Il'ia Zdanevich, or Tango with Cows (1914), a collection of "ferroconcrete" poetry by Vasily Kamensky, with illustrations by David Burliuk.
For each of these methods, limited hybrids and decorative hand-work (such as rubber stamped elements), etc. can be proposed and pursued, with time, equipment and materials considered.