Half of what I say: typographic poetry by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini

Subject: experimentation with typographic layout and analogical composition

Target: design students, general public

Taking Gibran Khalil Gibran’s poetry as a starting point, the workshop participants are invited to work with analogic methods to compose the texts of the poems given to them as adhesive transparent strips, with extra help from black tape and transfer type. Designers are warmly invited to close their laptops, revert to one typeface and embark on a new, unexpected, out of the box experience: to read and understand the text they are going to typeset. This Workshop has been held at Festival della Creatività Florence 2007, Iter Festival Verona 2008, IED Florence 2011