Alison asks

Alison emails a question:

"i wondered if you have a few moments if you could give me some help on a project im working on. Im looking for inspiration really, i am currently in the process of designing a magazine, and i am about to start the contents page, so i am looking for artists that have designed contents pages in a typographic way, i just want to see ways in which typography can influence a contents page. so if you have come accross any good pieces of work, can you please send me some links"

Can anyone help?

Comments

[thunk.]

El Lissitzky's 1922 designs for Mayakovsky's For The Voice are rather beautiful.

"this book of poems... is intended for reading aloud. I have made an index book to spare the reader the need to search for individual poems. This book is made up solely of material from the type case. Exploiting the possibilities of two-colour printing (superimpositions, cross hatchings and so on, [...] I wanted to create an equivalent unity between poetry and typographic elements."

(p66 / the abc of 20th-Century Graphics / Polano)

http://mayakovsky.com/pict3-liss.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Lissitzky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mayakovsky
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[here be simon]

I've always found Marmalade Magazine inspirational.