x New Ink
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x Who we are
x What we do
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x Projects
+Pleasure Dome
+Toronto International Film Festival
+The Frontier is Here
+Daniel Cockburn
+SAVAC
+National Film Board of Canada
+Detours
+Canadian Film Centre
+Tanya Mars
+FUSE Magazine
+Mirror of Memory
+TAPE Educational Services
+A Newspaper for Europe
+Rietveld Academy Graduation Show
+SODA Magazine
+Smoke Signal Projects
+Witness
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x Self–Commissioned
+Fading
+Type Specimens
+Newspaper Poetry
+We're Civilized
+Vostok

Newspaper Poetry
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Autonomous work
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Newspapers are a peculiar medium. At the core they stand for truth, objectivity, and a clarity through which we can understand the events of the world. Editors play a strong role with regard to how we perceive this world; yet, the reader can also act as an editor, affecting the content and order of what is given. This project was an example of one way to do this.

Each day a different international newspaper was read, and lists of words were drawn from various articles. The words were subsequently transformed into a form which sharply contrasts to the key objectives of the journalistic approach: poetry.

Suddenly, serious articles became subjective, personal, and even erotic, highlighting the power of re–editing, and the malleability of an otherwise impenetrable medium. As a guide, each word was linked to the original article it came from, and footnoted at the bottom of the poem. Ultimately, this was an exercise in the hidden structure beneath assumed forms, and showed the potential of content–driven graphic design.