One of the biggest referrals we get to the site is through Google Image searches for the calligraphy featured in a post from 2 years ago: Art and War. It is a beautiful piece of Sudanese art.
PingMag, my favourite Tokyo-based design magazine, has a great indepth article on Iranian calligraphy and graphic design. If you are interested in seeing how written language can be visually manipulated, check out Iranian Typography Now.
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carpetblogger added these pithy words on 13 Dec 06 at 7:11 amInteresting! At this year’s international poster biennial at the Wilanow Poster Museum in Warsaw (http://www.postermuseum.pl/english/biennale20/werdykt.htm), I saw a number of riveting works by Iranian graphic artists that relied on caligraphy. I picked up a couple of links too, thinking I would post about them, but never have. I’ll have to dig them up. Thanks for the post!
Sonagi added these pithy words on 14 Dec 06 at 1:04 amYou might be interested to know that cursive writing is disappearing from the elementary school curriculum in the United States. In some schools it is not taught at all, and in others like mine, it is given only cursory attention.
