Poetry in Motion

Mark Kaufman
Sometimes old projects come back to haunt you, sometimes, like in this case, old projects come back in a positive way. Vivitiv will be a part of a book documenting Poetry on Buses which we worked on a few years ago.  Floating Bridge Press and 4Culture are producing a Poetry on Buses Anthology. The project included bus cards of poetry on all Metro buses in King County, WA. We also designed and illustrated a booklet with all of the poems. Pictured here are the cover and back cover of the booklet. A couple of notes about the cover, it was produced using thermography for the illustrations, a technique that emulates engraving to raise ink above the surface of the paper, an old, cheap technique, yet one that added a warm, tactile value to the books. Since our concept for "One to One" was to show the human aspect of points of contact, I had to draw many different types of people in order to illuminate the theme, I slipped in a drawing of myself on the back cover. Yes, that figure in the orange box is what I looked like 30 years ago in high school.