DESIGN LAYOUT FOR POWER

                “No man ever forgot the visitations of that power
                  to his heart and brain, which created all things new;
                  which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art.”

                                                        — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I push Emerson's words around the page not knowing where to place them until Blake's Vision strikes me: “Poetry Painting & Music   the three Powers in Man   of conversing with Paradise   which the flood did not Sweep away.” Now I cast aside those bold fonts of Stone Serif and Charlemagne in favor of Medici Script, its fluid italic flow, elegant proportions, beauty flowering in Renaissance Florence, set the quote heading in Trajan Bold, its long classical Roman tradition, see the dawning sun pour out from the “O” in “POWER” and I open all the color palettes, stretch the blending tool across the screen— a rainbow watercolor for the sky, a medium spectrum in “POWER” flowing into Emerson's name, his words flooding the page in golden waves of light. Peter Y. Chou Palo Alto, 5-27-94