For my final project I'm doing a haiku book, it's not really haiku though, the poems don't follow traditional subject matter nor are they in Japanese, but they do have the 3 line 5, 7, 5 syllable structure. My 2008 New Year's Resolution was to write a haiku a day, sadly I didn't but I ended up with a little over 200. I picked around 20 for this project, which I will play with typography and accompany each haiku with my own imagery, except for one poem. The haikus are mostly random thoughts I was having at the time but some are specific events. I plan on binding my book the same way Joe bound his personal annual report.
Here are 3 rough spreads:
Here is a collage of some of the imagery I'm going to use:
What do you guys think?
Thanks in advance.
-Paul
It is a very nice idea you have for your book. It gives you so many possibilities to play with type and imagery. I like how you present the text and the image together. I think the empty white space helps the haiku to be as important as the image next to it; at the same time, it emphasizes the direct relationship that exists between the haiku and the image. So far I understand the three that you have here. I’ll see how you use the other images with your haiku. Good work.
ReplyDeleteyea. haiku skills. yea.
ReplyDeletelol so i like how you started playing with the type. the nature of the type makes me want to see like david carson style type. something distressed. i dunno if thats the way you wanna go though. i think it could compliment the photos you chose as well.
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