FORE existed initially as an alphabetized poem of four-letter words. Ink drawings were then created to evoke associations with each word of the poem. The drawings were re-engineered as stencils and combined with type to suggest picture dictionary pages. Stencil typefaces were created to reflect the collective aesthetic of the illustrations.

Each page of FORE underwent round-after-round of editing with razor blades, mylar and tape before stencils were achieved which could both exist as relatively complex works of detail and still prove conducive to production and repeated handling. Eventually, the designs were converted to digital files for further enhancement. Ultimately, each page was defined as a graphic that could be electronically transferred to first a knife plotter for production prototyping and then to a laser for self-publishing and production.

Each page is cut. The pieces comprising the negative space of the stencils are manually removed. The pages are collated and bound with snap-rings. A slipcase is laser-cut and constructed by hand. A slip sheet of black construction paper is laser-etched with instructional text and cut to size. The slip sheet is placed atop the bound book. The book is slipped into the slipcase and a copy of FORE is born. Each book is an intensely demanding exercise in self-publishing.