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HTML posters

A project by Kristian Bjørnard with students at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), presented in Ellen Lupton’s book Type on Screen (2014). In French:

Bjørnard a demandé aux étudiants de créer une affiche uniquement en langage HTML, CSS, avec un peu de JavaScript. (…) Certains étudiants ont choisi de rendre hommage à l’histoire du design, en recréant des compositions célèves de l’histoire des médias imprimés dans le cadre limité du web.

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Composition with initials

Rosmarie Tissi, in an interview by Louise Paradis (TM Research Archive), describes an assignment for a workshop she directed at Yale in 1991:

For the Yale workshop I thought of something simple and asked the class to make a composition with their initials. An easy task but some of the results were almost paintings; some very esoteric.