Letters Are Pictures of Things, Pt. 1: Garamond Powerline

Eric Gill once said “Letters are things, not pic­tures of things”, stress­ing the inti­mate bond between typog­ra­phy and the phys­i­cal world. Daniel Adolph of German design bureau 0c/0m/0y/0k and Düsseldorf based graphic col­lab­o­ra­tion with Alex Klug Royal Grafico inverted this rela­tion­ship. His pho­to­graphic project Gara­mond Pow­er­line takes pic­tures of things – assorted details of pow­er­lines – and con­verts them into let­ters, using the clas­sic type­face Gara­mond as a model. The alpha­bet which exists solely as images has ignited the imag­i­na­tion and earned the admi­ra­tion of blog­gers all over the world.

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I was just look­ing for let­ters for a kids pro­gram and found this sight. I spent over 35 years work­ing for Florida Power [now Progress Energy] in line work and this pic­ture letter impressed me.

Posted by William Whiting on Feb. 18, 2009

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