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A Typographic Abecedarium
Ornan Rotem
Letterforms are an inseparable part of civilized landscape. At some distant point in history, letters started life as representations of things in the world. Then, gradually, through a complex evolutionary process, they came to be defined as the closed shapes of a writing system.
This photo-typographic essay is a reflection and meditation on this transition. It looks at the 26 letters of the English version of the Roman alphabet. Each letter form is shown in four manners: as the world presenting itself in the shape of a letter; as an intended letter in space; as a flat letter on paper, and finally in the manner of a pure geometric form embodied in a typeface.
Available autumn 2011
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