PICTO POETRY | 2013
Print, Iconography, Typography, Bookmaking, Lasercutting
A book made of over 25+ custom made pictograms inspired by studying the history of Isotypes by Otto Neurath.
The book is 3 poems told 90% visually via pictograms, and 10% words.
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The goal was to aim for the “universal language” of visual images, form as language
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I wanted to make the viewer think, but simple enough to not give up
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A Legend in case you get stuck ;)
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In the back lays 3 trays of lasercut blocks, so that you can take a paper and etch
pictograms from the book encouraging the user to make their own picto-poems.
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Every pictogram in the book lasercut on acrylic
Feel free to view the book slideshow below to see each pictogram:
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