Marit's Paper World (blog) https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog Marit's Paper World (blog) Wed, 06 May 2015 09:31:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 woyww #309 & Russian constructivism https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog/woyww-309-russian-contructivism/ https://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog/woyww-309-russian-contructivism/#comments Wed, 06 May 2015 09:07:40 +0000 http://www.maritspaperworld.com/blog/?p=18046 Last Sunday was Middelburg Boekenstad (‘Middelburg Booktown’) in the town I live. An event that I heard of months ago… and since my art journals are books – even hand bound books – I had the nerve to contact the local bookstore to tell them about my art journals. They offered me a space in the bookstore to present my journals and promote art journaling. So here I am, sitting at the table with a collection of my journals. (Oh, and see, they even made a placard for me… pretty exciting, to see my name printed on a poster!)

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I just love our local bookstore De Drvkkery – I’m a bookworm and I can spend hours in a bookstore, just sniffing (don’t you think books smell awesome?!) and drooling (oops, no – not really, I wouldn’t dare) over the latest novels, art books and magazines. My beloved is not much of a reader but he don’t mind going to this bookstore, as they have a great collection of music too. Last Sunday, he took a small advertising magazine from the store home with him – it handles new released music albums – and I was struck by the advertisement on the back.

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This add reminded me of Russian Constructivism and the typography on the posters in that period. Here are some examples. (The image at the bottom-left is not authentic from that period. It is a jazz-poster from 1979, influenced by Constructivism)

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Why do I tell you all this?
Well, I thought it would be fun to make a week-page in my ‘Chronicles’ art journal inspired by these posters… and that is what you see lying on my desk today!

WOYWW #309

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It’s quite a puzzle to get the words and lettering right! As you can see, I work on a loose sheet of paper that lays flat on the table  to be able to use a ruler and measure the angles. I will glue the page in my journal once it’s finished.

Is there any other desker working with typography at the moment? Let me know, so I can come over to take a look – I’m all into lettering right now! (Talking about lettering… Tammy from Daisy Yellow has a series about letter-drawing on her blog, it is an easy, fun series and I recommend it if you like to learn more about drawing letters.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today. I plan to visit some desks myself later this afternoon, ’cause that is what WOYWW is all about after all. (WOYWW stands for What’s On Your Work desk? Wednesday, a blog-series hosted by Julia from the UK. Artists from all over the world post a photo of their desk on their blog and leave a link at Julia’s blog. These links will bring you to all kinds of desks from artists around the world. Fun, if you ask me!)

Have a great day you all, draw a letter!

 

 

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