Something not foreign to me, Typography, which is something that we have seen in our everyday lives and also something that I have physical contact with, which is on Chinese chop seal with small seal script.
This is basically my name in Chinese characters under the small seal script, which is a more legible as compared to their predecessor of Chinese bone carvings which were used as resemblance to literal translation through shapes.
Through this lecture, I realised the interesting aspect of how words has transformed over the years since mankind first set foot on earth. The profound visual communications which were then pass down to became a language that we all speak today around the world.
But the more intriguing part was on how did literal drawing actually found its way into modern alphabet and character, could it be due to the fact as invention carry on into printing, printers just want to reduce the effort on carving literal animal shapes and figures as compared to strokes with vertical and horizontal planes that are easier and appropriate to carve and fabricate.
Nevertheless, history is definitely a mystery as we only have record through writing and texts. What we could ever decipher are through the custodian who had the wealth and power to record what they want to say, thus shaping it into an individualistic point of view to communicate with us to follow their own thinking and way of doing things.