{"id":959,"date":"2015-01-16T22:51:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T05:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=959"},"modified":"2015-02-06T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T03:38:39","slug":"hans-joachim-burgert-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/hans-joachim-burgert-process\/","title":{"rendered":"More Hans-Joachim Burgert process"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been continuing to re-read Burgert’s book,\u00a0\u00a0The Calligraphic Line<\/em>. At the beginning, he writes that calligraphy is two-dimensional design using a limited set of symbols with a limiting set of rules. He discusses the spectrum of legibility \u00a0-> abstract 2D design, and the concomitant spectrum of typography -> fine art. (Or something like that; I don’t have the book in front of me.)<\/p>\n

Burgert provides a hittite heiroglyphics image as an illustration to go with his discussion of the leap from flowing oral language to written symbols. After reading this, I constructed an alphabet using elements of that hittite image. It was handy; another image could have done as well. This is the alphabet:<\/p>\n

\"2015-01-16<\/a><\/p>\n

Using this alphabet, I wrote out a quotation following standard rules of typography, writing left to right in horizontal lines, paying attention to kerning, and so on.<\/p>\n

\"2015-01-16-formal-alphabet-whence-did\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It was interesting, but I wanted to push it further to abstract two-dimensional design. After one falst start, this was the next step:<\/p>\n

\"2015-01-16-formal-alphabet-whence-did-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I thought it was interesting. And then pushed it further along the abstraction spectrum:<\/p>\n

\"2015-01-16<\/a>, but was surprised at how little I had moved along the typography\/abstraction spectrum between lettering 2 and lettering 3. So far, it’s fairly easy, so I probably haven’t gone far enough yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been continuing to re-read Burgert’s book,\u00a0\u00a0The Calligraphic Line. At the beginning, he writes that calligraphy is two-dimensional design using a limited set of symbols with a limiting set of rules. He discusses the spectrum of legibility \u00a0-> abstract 2D design, and the concomitant spectrum of typography -> fine art. (Or something like that; I … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “More Hans-Joachim Burgert process”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63],"tags":[64,65],"class_list":["post-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-teacher-alphabet","tag-2015-daily-lettering","tag-hans-joachim-burgert"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t