ABCing. Seeing The Alphabet Differently. Colleen Ellis
1123 руб
From abstract to zeitgeist, the book uses the Latin alphabet to introduce ways of visualizing, thinking and talking about art and design. ABCing: Seeing the Alphabet Differently is a primer to seeing and understanding the visual world. It is not the actual letterforms from which these new perspectives take shape, but the spaces around the letterforms. Each illustration is created using only the negative shapes of a given letter. Therefore the illustrations maintain their visual connection to the original letterform. The shapes are rotated and resized; they are not duplicated, mirrored or otherwise altered. The result is a mixture of philosophy and art. The shapes are then composed as a visual translation of a given words meaning, creating visual and conceptual connections between the letter, the word and the surrounding space. The inspiration behind the book is to spur new and alternative approaches to how viewers look at an image, shifting the focus from the subjectthe letterto the. 2010.