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Typography
Modotti, Tina. Photograph, Typewriter. 1928.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Painting, Road with Cypress and Stars. 1890.
Screen print, MS FrontPage Software Home Page. www.frontpage.microsoft.com. 2002.
Photograph. Nijinsky as Petrouschka.
Quoted Text:
Drucker, Johanna. The Visible Word, (238). 1994.
The (Cahiers) Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky. 1999.

This page reworks the format used for the letter ‘D’ using the Microsoft FrontPage Homepage as a screen skin. This page contemplates Drucker’s  principle of codified textual forms and the design disorients concept of the codified page, by skewing and reversing the screen print of the software website. Other idioms of disorientation include: vertically aligned text, hand-scripted words, “what’s this,” with miscellaneous graffiti and other text items inscribed on the digital image of a computer screen.

This page on typography, includes Modotti’s 1928 photograph of an early typewriter. Text boxes listing important innovations in the history of printing and bookmaking are also incorporated into the design. The page "D-Dear 2D Digital Dimension" also uses this design motif.  

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