Vicky Kafkaki – Graphic Design MA Falmouth University

Take an excerpt from a national poet or writer and transform the task into a single typographic composition:

• Redesign the first line of text in a style that’s appropriate to the subject – draw it, render it, build it
• Then take the body of the text and typeset it
• Be experimental. How does leading, positioning, stresses on particular words and detailing affect the power of the piece?
• How is meaning affected by interpretation inn a tangible way?
• What is the relationship of the page

I was thinking and the first poem that came to my mind was the one that I remember from my childhood – every kid in school should know it back then

I am Bulgarian,

I love our green mountains

To be called Bulgarian

is a great joy for me!

I am a free Bulgarian.

in a land of freedom I live

Everything Bulgarian and native,

I adore, I love, and Miss

I am a Bulgarian and I am living

in days of greatness and in times of glory

A son of a land so wonderful,

a son of tribe so mighty!

This is very patriotic poem -so, I use the colors of thee Bulgarian flag – white, green and red.

I design the first line to look like a flag.

Then I put the text in the shape of Bulgaria.

The country has a long line of mountains inn the middle – that’s why I put the text that looks like this.