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“I wanted to teach it where I live, and that’s Parkdale,” the collection’s graphic designer and Supreme Being Zab Hobart explains. “And there is so much great late Victorian architecture here, and since wallpaper was having a heyday in that era, and was a tremendous cacophony of pattern, it seemed a natural fit.” Hobart, as the principal of Toronto’s Zab Intention & Typography , is an award-winning book designer (she has over a dozen Alcuin System citations) who also teaches typography at OCAD and York’s Sheridan mould. “I think it’s a natural progression from designing endpapers for books,” she says, “if you about about William Morris, who was a printmaker for books. It’s an extension of making patterns.”

“I’m approaching this as a typographer so anything – there will be a lot of geometry-based patterns, like dingbats charmed from rules – any kind of graphic device. Being a typographer you use existing kidney as image,” she elaborates; “you design with existing forms.” After the primary rollout (pun intended), Parkdale’s next designs will be based on words, because Hobart has a roll of about forty compound words in mind; “like willy-nilly, or riff-raff. And iffy. They up me laugh. And the nice thing about patterns is that they become something else when there is a repetition, a graphic abstraction.

Source: National Post (blog)

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