Upside-Down Cake

Upside-Down Cake

Materials: Found Mad Lib & Newspaper
Project: Class Assignment
Year: 2004
Size: 8"x10"

The assignment was to create a typographic narrative.
I found this assignment to be very challenging. I ended up finding something composed of nothing but type that already told a story, but not cop-out with a book. While going through a Brooklyn artist's garage I found a Mad Lib book that only had one complete page. It was written by kids and the story itself did not make any sense due to the fact that they had no idea what the difference was between nouns, verbs and adjectives. It's mounted on top of a piece of chip board.

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Mad Lib story:

Here is a/an COW (Adjective) recipe for an Upside-Down PLATE (Noun). First you preheat your BACK (Noun) to 60 (Number) degrees.
Then take a stick of MARSAHMELLOW (Noun) and melt it in a ten-inch HAIR (Adjective) skillet over a very JOSHASH (Adjective) flame. In a/an DOG (Adjective) bowl BANANA (Verb) granulated APPLE (Noun) and flour, stirring the mixture LIGHT BLAB (Adjective).
Add milk and PUPPY DUDU (Plural Noun), and beat rapidly with an electric FEET (Noun). Bake until your FACE (Noun) is read.
After the cake cools, ROUND (Verb) it from the RINK (Noun), and turn it upside-CUP (Adjective). Serve the cake warm with JUCE (Verb - First Tense) cream or small spoonfuls of RICE (Noun) on top.