Inspiring Design: Materials from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
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Title
Inspiring Design: Materials from the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
Subject
Rare books and manuscripts
Description
A collection of items that inspired digital textual design concepts and plans in Writing for the Web, Spring 2018.
Creator
Writing for the Web, Spring 2018
Source
University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Collection
Date
January-April 2018
Contributor
Writing for the Web, Spring 2018
Rights
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Collection, University of Georgia Special Collections Libraries
Type
Rare books and manuscripts
Collection Items
The Elastic Membrane
Catalogue entry for Circle Press copy of Michael Kidner's artist book, "The Elastic Membrane."
"Grandpa Goose" Goldilocks Continues
!["Grandpa Goose" Goldilocks Continues](https://hyperglyphics.net/omeka/files/square_thumbnails/93ff6eeff20ce9d8ba3102579ccf6abb.jpg ""Grandpa Goose" Goldilocks Continues")
A grandfather's transcribing of bedtime stories that had become a standard for his family, this book was self-published and only a few copies were made, all intended for his granddaughters' use.
Wonder Might Ignite
An artist's book designed around a poem about a whimsical girl reigniting imagination as she moves through space and time.
Threshold
It begins with a poem abstracting the notion of thresholds, then opens to a story of the nymph Daphne who is transformed into a tree. Revolving the book and peering into the alcoves, the reader moves into the territory of the four “Mythological Meta…
Shaped Poetry: A Suite of 30 Typographic Prints: Chronicling This Literary Form from 300 BC to the Present
A suite of 30 typographic prints, each on a different handmade paper in a wide range of typefaces and in a variety of colors, with a companion volume by Glenn Todd and Andrew Hoyem
A Printer's Exquisite Corpse
Catalogue entry for Silver Buckle Press' publication of a game turned into the artist book, "The Printer's Exquisite Corpse"
Did You Bring the Matches Hon?
Accordion-folded pages with facing text and illustrations. The illustrations are executed in a three-dimensional format arrived at through the combining of the illustrated page with an illustrated plastic overlay. Bound in red cloth with an embossed…
The Untenanted Room
Catalogue entry for The British Library's copy of James Simpson's Poems followed by woodcuts of Carolyn Trant for, "The Untenanted Room."
The Untenanted Room
Catalogue entry for Carolyn Trant's carousel version of James Simpson's, "The Untenanted Room."
The Elements
Long, For Part Poem displayed with lithograph images describing "the elements": air, fire, earth and water