We
began our project by looking at Latin symbols and their potential for
ligatures (Fig.1.) We then looked at the Latin symbol for city, a
triangle with 3 dashes within it.
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Fig.1 |
I
thought this had potential as by tilting the triangle we found it had
direction, offering ‘do you want to go to the city’ as its
meaning (Fig.2.) Similar to a 'play' button or arrow.
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Fig.2 |
We
then discussed adding the time of meeting next to it, to show how it
would work within context. Additionally, we thought each dash could
represent a mealtime (| breakfast, || lunch ||| dinner.)
I believe
this was a mistake as although this was not yet a ligature, it had
potential and plenty of visual meaning. Perhaps the 3 lines could
have been bent into to curves to represent the C in city- (((.
Instead we
developed the phrases ‘cos’ (Fig.3) and ‘no way’ (Fig.4.) We
found many ways of shortening and compressing these phrases into
ligatures with added punctuation, including ! and ? (Fig.5.) This did
become striking and obvious- however I think it lacked the symbolism
and research that our original city ligature had.
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Fig.3 |
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Fig.5 |
In
future I think it would be best to avoid the obvious, even if it
means making the design too vague- this can be refined later. Through
the crit I also realised that the ligatures I would like to use
myself, were not reconstructions of the original words, but were
symbols with research and depth.
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