After having read the written work of Mallarme’s A Throw of the Dice, what I found most interesting was Johanna Drucker’s explanation of the inspiration for the typographical form and construction of the poem. It really became clear as to why that poem was considered an extremely important symbol for the precedence of the Avant-Garde movement.
Considering the unlimited capabilities to create typographic artwork through the ever-evolving software and technologies that our current era of the Post-modern or ‘Post post-modern, it might be hard to consider the presentation of A Throw of the Dice to be defying and bold. Currently, with the ability to manipulate so much when it comes to typography, it seems as though there are so many more variables involved. And with so many more possibilities comes so many more discussions to make as a designer of what to do and not to do. That is not to say that it is a simple task to create a successful piece by manipulating only the basic fundamentals of typography available at that time. With the innovations in dynamic and kinetic typography, its interesting to see how far we have come. And although at that time, the presentation of the poem was received as being that which pushes the boundaries of how to experience short literature, there are a lot of subtleties in the appearance of the poem that often get overlooked in a lot of the work today.
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