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sign writing, examples of some words/letters. this is along the lines i will be pursuing. how can i concisely represent an idea visually through symbol that is immediately apparent without cultural context.

a translation of goldilocks into signwriting.

interested in the strokes used in this piece. combination of stroke types from a variety of alphabets, syllabaries, etc.

Dr. John M. Bennett

http://dbqp.blogspot.com

http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/08/16/asemic-scapes-by-sarah-schneider

Blogs on asemic writing and an article on asemic structure.

Resources

Reading Isotype
Author(s): Ellen Lupton
Source: Design Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Autumn, 1986), pp. 47-58
Published by: The MIT Press
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1511484

Staging Language: Milča Mayerová and the Czech Book "Alphabet"
Author(s): Matthew S. Witkovsky
Source: The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, No. 1, (Mar., 2004), pp. 114-135
Published by: College Art Association
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3177403

Character complexity and redundancy in writing
systems over human history
Mark A. Changizi1 and Shinsuke Shimojo2,3
1Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology, and 2Division of Biology, Computation and Neural Systems,MC139-74,
Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
3NTT Communication Science Laboratory, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan