Dom Sylvester Houédard
Recent articles about Dom Sylvester Houédard
Ramp up the key strokes
Issue 104, Spring 2023
Keith Armstrong (1950-2017) aka ‘ruhuman’, earned a reputation for his typewriter art while still in his teens.
Eventure playground
Issue 93, Winter 2016
Boooook is the first publication to give a retrospective overview of the life and work…
Concrete poems just are
Issue 20, Spring 1996
Concrete poetry never won full acceptance, despite the efforts of exponents all over the world. In the digital era its innovations are ripe for reassessment
Recent blog posts about Dom Sylvester Houédard
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…