Newspaper Blackout Design

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For the introduction to Type and Image, we began investigating the work of Austin Kleon, as his technique of newspaper blackouts. By using a newspaper body or book, he selects individual words from the text to form a new message. To present this message he then covers the remaining text in black ink leaving his message behind. Using pages from the book, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, we selected a message and using Kleon's method blocked out the remaining text.



Developing on from this task, we then investigated the work of Tom Phillips and his famous collection of books titled 'The Humument'. Phillips' work stemmed from a second hand book he chose titled 'A Human Document' by W.H. Mallock. By selecting this text, he was able to use the pages without infringing copyright and publish his adaptations of the pages. Unlike Kleon, Phillips uses more intricate methods of blocking out the text, illustrating on the page with various imagery and equipment. To attempt to capture his process, I used the same quote from the previous blackout design, and used red, blue, green and black ball pens to doodle over the text. I attempted to create an example of his more intricate designs creating a scene rather than just patterns, connecting the imagery to the quote. The illustration represents the clash of realism, fantasy and disaster in the form of the destruction of a regular city by unrealistic means.


 




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