Writing Without Words is a project created by Stefanie Posavec, a communication designer, striving to give visual form to literary words. It “explores methods of visually representing text and visualizes the difference in writing styles of various authors”. Above is an image from the project created by documenting everything from paragraph size to sentence length in [...]
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Writing Without Words
Posted in Books, Creations, Designers, tagged analysis, language, print, storytelling, translation on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phonetics and Typography
Posted in Books, Designers, Typographers, tagged dialect, digital, language, phonetics, print, typography on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The spectrograph image above is from the book Type and Typography by Phil Baines and Andrew Haslam. It documents over a period of time the variation of speed, volume, and intensity of a person’s speech. It is essentially a scientific visualization of language, including everything from the sounds to the gaps. ”In speech we [...]
Type Addicted
Posted in Books, tagged book, print, typography on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Type Addicted [published by Victionary] is a book showcasing everything form 2-D to 3-D pieces of installations related to the exploration and production of type organized from A to Z. Victionary
Arnheim and Forgery
Posted in Books, tagged authenticity, heritage, image, Perception on September 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The book, The Forger’s Art by Denis Dutton, is a compilation of essays written by different people within the art and design world about their take on “fakes” and copies. The opinions range from complete outrage to understanding and appreciating the need and possibly their importance. The article that stood out to me was written by [...]
