Typography is poetry (More on Typesetting The Waste Land)
Judging from the response from the people who attended, our first Visual Web Design Masterclass in London this month was a huge success. As a large part of the day was spent learning about typography, both relating to type and to layouts devised from typographic principles, I chose to illustrate the lessons by typesetting The Waste Land, a poem by TS. Eliot. If you weren't able to attend, now is your chance to take a look at the results of my experiments.
My self-set challenges were:
- To base each layout on a different typographical or layout principle
- To use the same structural XHTML markup for every part
- To design all but the grid in the browser, not Fireworks or Photoshop
Start by learning about the poem or jump straight to each part below.