emblematics 1

For Monday 28 January we're

1. reading Cramsie, The Story of Graphic Design, his introduction and chapter 1, Design and Sign (origin of alphabet); and
2. building two emblems: image + two units of text, whose combination yields an opportunity for meaning. As we discussed Wednesday, our own extensions of the Phaidon Archive — descriptive and discursive text wrapped around an image — might be thinned and repurposed to emblematic ends.