Letters Are Pictures of Things, Pt. 1: Garamond Powerline
Eric Gill once said “Letters are things, not picÂtures of things”, stressÂing the intiÂmate bond between typogÂraÂphy and the physÂiÂcal world. Daniel Adolph of German design bureau 0c/0m/0y/0k and Düsseldorf based graphic colÂlabÂoÂraÂtion with Alex Klug Royal Grafico inverted this relaÂtionÂship. His phoÂtoÂgraphic project GaraÂmond PowÂerÂline takes picÂtures of things – assorted details of powÂerÂlines – and conÂverts them into letÂters, using the clasÂsic typeÂface GaraÂmond as a model. The alphaÂbet which exists solely as images has ignited the imagÂiÂnaÂtion and earned the admiÂraÂtion of blogÂgers all over the world.
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I was just lookÂing for letÂters for a kids proÂgram and found this sight. I spent over 35 years workÂing for Florida Power [now Progress Energy] in line work and this picÂture letter impressed me.