‘Signature’ recontextualises into book form, an aspect of Paul Carter’s distinguished public art practice: his unique poetic typographic inscriptions that are installed in award-winning public spaces throughout Australia.

Using a colour palette derived from the Australian landscape and drawing inspiration from illuminated manuscripts, scriptio continua and concrete poetry, an individual typographic approach was designed for each poem to visually enhance and conceptually connect the multi-layered writings. A musical system of markings was also created that respected the unusual mingling of quantitative phrasing and stress-based rhythmic arrangement.

‘Signature’ is a unique collaboration between poetry, place and graphic design.