Video: Font Anatomy: "Hair Alphabet" Shurong Diao
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Shurong Diao, an artist from New York of presumably Chinese descent, has developed a very personal display typeface, where the strokes of letters are formed from the artist's long black hair, and her naked body becomes part of negative space.
Shurong Diao is an aspiring graphic designer with a fresh bachelor's degree from the New York School of Fine Arts. Her website presents the whole range of works of a diligent student-designer: illustration, packaging, identity, smartphone applications (including a set of emoticons with a very serious Kim Jong Il) and even a funny concept "Novels in the subway" ("Tiny Subway Novels") are tiny little books that you can read on the subway "instead of spending all the way staring at your tiny screens."
However - for some mysterious, completely inexplicable reasons - the attention of the near-artistic Internet community was attracted by a project called "Hair Alphabet", composed of photographs of gorgeous long hair (and the rest of the gorgeous and completely naked Diao), which represent one of the 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. The lowercase letters of the grotesque are made up of curled black curls of incredible length, rolled into loops and spirals, tangled, tied into knots. It would be very interesting to know where the girl's real hair ends and Photoshop begins, but, unfortunately, the story is silent about it.
Diao comments that the project, in addition to the obvious aesthetic component, also has a cultural connotation: "I wanted to create a connection between Chinese characters and the Latin alphabet, forming letters from the hair, just as the characters of the Chinese alphabet are drawn with ink on rice paper."
It is worth noting that the human hair alphabet is not a completely new idea. For example, the Dutch designer Monique Goossens used a similar technique to create a "hairy" show-grotesque. But as they say, the devil is in the details.
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