Second Eden

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With so much harm done and despite the efforts to mitigate the damages, it is undeniable that these damages cannot be undone.

For as long as human walk on Earth, climate change is inevitable. This work takes peek at the new world where climate conditions, beyond the level of extremity, becomes the new norm and nature reclaims its land.

In Second Eden, nature thrives from the rainfall of stardusts. Tiny and frail creatures exert immense forces on the sensitive eden as tidal forces of the ocean rest on the lightest sweep of the the new moon’s wings.

 

History of Design | Lecture 1 Reflection

With last week’s lecture on introduction on how words and its mediums came about, it was an in depth lecture with many deep and  interesting facts about the roots of typography.

I was most shocked and intrigued by the Greek’s boustrophedon writing style which writing style translates to “plowing a field with an ox”. To me, I felt that it was such a complicated and confusing way of writing and reading as one had to learn the letter’s right and mirrored way of writing and reading. This meant that they had to do double work of learning this extra steps. The interesting style lead me to search up the writing style and below is an example of how the Greek’s style look like.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon#/media/File:Boustrophedon.jpg

Below’s image would be what it would’ve look like if it was written using the english alphabet letters. To me, the text is readable, however I need a longer time to read and get adjusted to it.  It felt like multitasking having to read from left to right and the right to left in a mirrored manner, the brain has to switch the reading style. Therefore, I found this method of writing and reading quite taxing, yet it amazes me how people in the past was able to master and develop such a writing technique.

https://agamya.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/boustrophedon/

I also learnt that there is something called the reversed Boustrophedon which looks like this, one has to read from bottom right to left and up from left to right. I feel that it is a very unnatural way of writing

https://agamya.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/reverse_boustrophedon.png

However, from what I’ve read on this link, I found that it is natural for some children (now) to write boustrophedonically at a young age as they have not grasp the concept of writing in a “modern” manner yet. Perhaps writing in a boustrophedonic manner came about in the past because people were much more simpler back then when they began developing a writing system.