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Part 1 — THIS WORLD

Section 1. — Of the Nature of Flatland

Section 2. — Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland

Section 3. — Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland

Section 4. — Concerning the Women

Section 5. — Of our Methods of Recognizing one another

Section 6. — Of Recognition by Sight

Section 7. — Concerning Irreglular Figures

Section 8. — Of the Ancient Practice of Painting

Section 9. — Of the Universal Colour Bill

Section 10. — Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition

Section 11. — Concerning our Priests

Section 12. — Of the Doctrine of our Priests

PART II — OTHER WORLDS

“O brave new worlds, That have such people in them!”

Section 13. — How I had a Vision of Lineland

Section 14. — How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland

Section 15. — Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland

Section 16. — How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland

Section 17. — How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds

Section 18. — How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there

Section 19. — How, though the Sphere shewed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desire more; and what came of it

Section 20. — How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision.

Section 21. — How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success

Section 22. — How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result

Source - http://xahlee.org/flatland/

this explains the 22 sections of the book in both parts...

this can be used very effectively in my idea as "Flatland by Edwin A Abbott" contains 22 characters allowing for an origami letter for each section!

cool pages!

Source - http://lilfishstudios.blogspot.com/2009/07/abc-book-origami-love.html

how cool and clever is this? wish i new more about this whole origami business.

what a brilliant book, all quite clever and looks good...

hmmm. lets play with paper

origami letters? click here

handmade books....

this will come in handy!


http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-bind-your-own-Hardback-Book/

For making my own book i might as well do it properly... or give it my best shot anyway.
this will also allow me to change and modify the process as i see fit to hopefully come up with my own desired outcome. whether or not this is going to be a book primarily for reading, something which can be read or something purely to personify the story is still up in the air and undecided... but hopefully something solid will enter my brain soon!

why i chose the books in the previous post.

when i saw the art work using the books, to be honest id never seen anything along those lines ever before... so obviously its helping me crawl out of the box to try and tackle this brief with as open a mind as i can manage. I will have to stay away from exactly what they have done.. but i feel they just go to show that a book doesnt have to be exactly what we origionally percieve it to be.

some interesting weird and wonderfull books.

Source - http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/08/unusual-books.html

brilliantly weird book cover design

Weird and wonderful book cover design, there are many more of this style shown on the below source website.

Source - http://www.weirdomatic.com/strange-book-covers.html

book

throughout the course i have always wanted to design my own book and this seems to be the perfect brief to allow me to do so... but as 25% of this module is marked on risk taking i will have to show some way that makes this book different. so i plan to redesign this book in a radical way that makes it a visually stunning art piece as well as the classic book by Edwin Abott

These are just some type faces i was able to find quite easily showing the use of geometric shapes to construct text. The first one is isometric therefore feeling 3D so wether not it would work for my project would be up in the air. Having said that i still think it shows what can be done with text...

Sources (respectively)

http://fontfabric.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/cubic_011.jpg

http://cdn.ilovetypography.com/img/2008/11/geometric-type.gif

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvUUqjfOn3OK5H-zOqcZR6QbkxAit1L67MR920rQ8xKRQFdw1zRxxHLmsAL69uOafX7ReNomHERf3AHzaRI72LGyERNNSAf6-03FlA9iA9Jfv6PZLvFbRoVeZ20-Yw40P3PnXkVa99lLl-/s400/geometric_type.png

cover i liked

i know this is just a book cover, however i think it fits in with the research for the bried because of the geometric quality and the use of both 2d and 3d imagery, both of which are a main part of the story Flatland

Brief me!!

Your task is to produce a proposal for a new edition of Flatland that doesn’t necessarily engage with the conventions of ‘the book’ as we understand them, although it may have text matter, pages and a cover – or not. It could be a pamphlet, a chapbook, a poster, a landscape, a happening, a dream, an installation, a text, a sound piece, an animation, a moment.

Interpret the text typographically – you can be as ambitious as you wish to be, but you must deal with the full contents of at least one chapter and show how the rest of the text would develop.

There are no restrictions, no conventions, no rules, no given formats. Static work, moving image, physical, virtual, ephemeral are all up to

you, as is the navigation of the piece, its viewer/ reader/user engagement, its scale, simplicity, complexity, composition.

What can it become? There is a quote in the film Amadeus that says if you have four people talking at once, then that’s an argument . . . if you have four people singing at once, then that’s Opera.

Make an opera, not an argument!

i liked this brief because it basically leaves it wide open for me to do whatever i wish, for this module it allows me to experiment and take risks. Both these are favoured in the module. Also the subject is interesting and the book is also very interesting and could make for a great piece of work if i do it correctly.

example of some of the covers

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/4774.html

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/a/abbott/edwin/flatland/

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/433567.Flatland

(respectively)

FlatLand

Flat land has influenced alot of animations over the years... the earliest by Eric Martin (1965):

A Square of Flatland meets a higher dimensional Sphere. Early hand-drawn version of classic math allegory by famed animator. This fine short shows the edgy playful drawing style of the Hubley family studios, known for many distinctive enlightened jazzy animations starting in 1955 when Faith Hubley married John Hubley, who worked at Disney until he was blacklisted for pro-union politics. In 1962 John became the first animation teacher at Harvard's new Visual Arts Center, where he pushed to make a version of Flatland. Dudley Moore narrates with companions from UK comedy group "Beyond the Fringe", and happily the film is still available, though pricey for its length. -

Source (http://www.listal.com/movie/flatland-1965)

Another was made by Michele Emmer in 1982 - although the only reference i could find to this is unfortunately Wikipedia and a short entry in IMDB - Source (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121289/) also mentioned on http://www.calormen.com/Flatland/ where they also admit to only having seen it mentioned in these two previously stated sites.

Never heard of this at the time, or remember it anyway... but here is an animation based on the short story by Edwin Abbott.

Flatland eh?

i have chosen this brief purely on the content of the brief... the idea in book of a square talking about a 2d world, and having to come up with a typography solution to something based or inspired by this piece. and as type is used mostly in the 2d i think it will be interesting to explore what i can come up with etc...