From calligraphy to typography, from handwritten form to digital vector shape- letters live in all dimensions. Yet there is an immense difference when we consider the concept of an "original" and its digital reproduction. In 1935 Walter Benjamin wrote "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" essay which shed light on our complex relationship with the original of the art work and its mechanical copy. We no longer reproduce forms only mechanically, but have added a new visual matrix - the digital. Rarely do we have a chance to interact with the original and not its digital copy. How will visual arts evolve further, especially the art of writing, only time will show. Which role visual aesthetics will play in the future, that too remains to be seen.
So far I have developed character sets for few typefaces, however incomplete they are as numbers and punctuation is missing and I am still to master the technical aspect of assembling a typeface. But that is an eventuality and the work continues.
So far I have developed character sets for few typefaces, however incomplete they are as numbers and punctuation is missing and I am still to master the technical aspect of assembling a typeface. But that is an eventuality and the work continues.
