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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.


Written by Andy Clarke .


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