Charles Verey
Blog posts by Charles Verey
Sun-cheese wheel-ode
10 December 2012
Design history, Graphic design, Typography, Visual culture
Dom Sylvester Houédard’s 1968 concrete poetry tribute to fellow poet Ken Cox is a double spiral of hand-set type, mysteriously linked by the sport of cheese rolling. Fraser Muggeridge explains.
The letterpress printed concrete poem designed by Dom Sylvester Houédard first caught my interest because…