{"id":5549,"date":"2012-04-20T08:40:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/?p=5549"},"modified":"2012-04-20T08:41:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T12:41:31","slug":"digital-broadsides-kimberly-alidios-translation-designed-by-kenji-c-liu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lanternreview.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/20\/digital-broadsides-kimberly-alidios-translation-designed-by-kenji-c-liu\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Broadsides: Kimberly Alidio’s “translation,” Designed by Kenji C. Liu"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week’s digital broadside download is actually two designs in one. Designer Kenji C. Liu<\/a> has created two separate visions for Kimberly Alidio’s poem “translation”<\/a> (from\u00a0LR <\/em>issue 2): not only has he designed a beautiful desktop wallpaper, featuring an image of a boat, but he’s also conceived of the printable version in such a way that it can be cut and folded into a miniature chapbook. Kenji (who’s a poet and past LR<\/em> contributor<\/a> himself, in addition to being a crackerjack graphic designer) had this to say about his decision to create a printable that requires an element of DIY:<\/p>\n

The reason I decided to make an “interactive” broadside is I’m interested in making bookmaking as accessible as possible. The broadside is a great tradition that makes writing easier to distribute. I just wanted to take it one step further and demystify the book. This mini-chapbook is more in the DIY “zine” tradition but is also inspired by pocket poetry and “poems for all<\/a>“. It is extremely easy to make, reproduce, and distribute. I hope others will use this format for their own poems, and leave them everywhere.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the spirit of making it even easier to spread the poetry love, we’ve created a video tutorial demonstrating how to turn it into a book:<\/p>\n