title
Transcending Scripts: Deconstructed Humanistic Alphabet
Artist/Designer
Aspacia Kousoulas
Date
2023
type of writing system
Alphabet
Based on
Latin script
References
Western calligraphy, Lettrist movement
Transcending Scripts explores versions of the Latin alphabet starting from the 14th century, examining the nuances and stylistic variations that emergedduring that era. It dissects and reconstructs Latin’s six basic calligraphic strokes which underpin the foundation for creating various letters and decorative designs. Drawing inspiration from historical manuscripts, like Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta (1561–1562), the project’s objective extends beyond conveying meaning to uncover the inherent beauty residing within the apparently arbitrary strokes that compose letters. It takes cues from the Lettrist movement’s reverence for form-breaking, and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction theory, which critiques Western philosophical theories and their reliance on binary oppositions. Transcending Scripts thus reimagines the Latin script, generating a new alphabet with altered order and rhythm.
Artwork courtesy of Aspacia Kousoulas. All rights reserved.
abjad
abugida
acrophony
acrostic
alphabet
alphasyllabary
asemic writing
automatic writing
boustrophedon
character
character set
cipher
code
conscript
cryptography
encode
experimental
grapheme
glyph
hieroglyph
hieroglyphics
imaginarium
language
letter
letterform
linguistic
logosyllabary
logographic
logogram
nat scirpt
neography
optophonetic
phoneme
phonetic
pictograph
quasi
re-worlding
script
syllabary
syllable
symbol
speculative
torus
versimilitude
writing system
