I have always seen the sphere of art and design on all levels from graphic design through to art as communication. And i have always wondered whether there could be a visual equivalent to speaking; whether humans could speak with pictures, visual speaking. This is obviously impossible, we can only communicate legibly through conversation and the use of spoken language. Letters and words are the visual forms of our spoken words. But what if we could change these forms to something entirely different? what if we could use new images to denote certain letters and words in our vocabulary? What if we could create an alphabet that derives from different forms in the world. The letters that we have now are derived from forms of ancient cultures like the ancient phoenicians and egyptians. These cultures based their alphabets on animals and other forms that were around them. These letters much like us have evolved extensively and have translated into new forms, so what if we could create a new alphabet that derives or has evolved from forms around us today and what sound would be associated with them?
or would there be any way way of visualising entire words?
Writing acts as a way of visualising words and derives from the visual realm , the letter A derives from the form of a bull or an ox. originaly evolved from the phoenician letter Aleph. so would it be possible to take the letters back to their pure form and possibly create new forms of letters to denote the same letter. And whether it would be possible to creat new purely visual languages.
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