Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Faster than fairies...

When I first read 'From a Railway Carriage' the thing that stole my attention most of all was the first line.
Faster than fairies, faster than witches.
This line really speaks to me and as I say it or read it, in my head the words are dancing across the page at a fast pace. I wanted to try to recreate the way I thought of this line in my head using typography.
 This photagraph of a page from my scetchbook, shows one of the ways I expereimented with representing this line using only text. I wanted to give the impression that the words were moving really fast across the page. I order to do this, I painted the words and then smudged the paint to create the illusion of the letters moving so fast they were almost a blur. 

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