Nerd: Evolution of Script from Pictogram to the Alphabet
Radovan Vašák
Artistic research: a gradual transformation of a reference image into a system of symbols. The author creates a script for a fictional, non-existent language, proceeding similarly to some historical civilisations: from pictograms through reduction and… Read more
Artistic research: a gradual transformation of a reference image into a system of symbols. The author creates a script for a fictional, non-existent language, proceeding similarly to some historical civilisations: from pictograms through reduction and abstraction to a formal structure of an alphabet. The original image input is rooted in the visual culture of the author's formative years, mainly pop-culture phenomena.
The project connects artistic research, design experiment, speculative historical fabulation and a statement of personal lived experience into one whole. It is a testimony to writing scripts as living and changing organisms that shape the understanding of the world, collective memory and individual identity.
The project was created as a bachelor's thesis in the studio Typolab at the Department of Visual Communication of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava.
