Working on the Strange Poster and employing the grid, I went out in search of inspirational work and came across a book by Karel Martens. Martens is a Dutch modernist/post-modernist graphic design whose book, Printed Matter, is chock full of eye candy in the form of typography and book design. Not only is his work great, but the book itself is a design feat in itself. The above image is a typographic experiment using stencil numbers in a "magic formation." On first glance the rainbow of colours pop out and draw you in. The overlapping of one grid (the numbers) over another (the newspaper columns) is an interesting contrast of the everyday with the "strange" if you will. Sheer rationalism is employed here, with each number corresponding to a specific colour and in the end it ends up as playful and intriguing as any work of art, and the structuralism dissapears.

-Colin