The Book as a Medium for Universal Language
The idea of universal language is controversial: there are those scholars who believe that is achievable--especially through the use of --and there are those who disagree entirely with the possibility that it could ever happen due to individual differences in cultures. Despite these contradicting views, it is clear that the stripping down of language-specific words and reimagining them as purely visual icons presents a fascinating relationship between the form and typography of these books and their function as carriers of the potential for universality.
It is my hope that throughout this pathway, you will question the existence of universal language, the idea of perception and reading, and how two unique individual have the possibility to look at a symbol and for the two of them to have completely different interpretations of that one symbol.
