With #36daysoftype finally coming to an end, I thought I’d share what seems to me like the OLDEST version of 36 Days of Type. There is arguably nothing more human than the alphabet, given that language, and particularly written language often tops the list of qualities which distinguish our dear species most distinctly from others. To form the letters of these alphabets using the human body is then, perhaps, not so strange a leap, and, in fact, seems to be rather appropriate. In their own varied ways, artists and scribes have been doing it for centuries. Below are a collection of highlights of the many twists and turns of this human font.
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A Theory of Pure Design: Harmony, Balance, Rhythm (1907)
The terms and principles of Art have, as a rule, been understood by the artist in the form of technical processes and visual images, not in words. It is in words that they will become generally understood. It is in words that I propose to explain them in this book. I want to bring to definition what, until now, has not been clearly defined or exactly measured. In a sense this book is a contribution to Science rather than to Art. It is a contribution to Science made by a painter, who has used his Art in order to understand his Art, not to produce Works of Art. In a passage of Plato (Philebus, ^f 55) Socrates says: “If arithmetic, mensuration, and weighing be taken out of any art, that which remains will not be much.”
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