Even before the Greeks got around to formalizing an alphabet, ancient Egyptians composed hieroglyphic messages based on drawings of jackals, jaguars and, occasionally, birds with human heads. But the Egyptians Tut-tutted at vowels, leaving an obvious opening — or “pnng,” as they might have been forced to put it — for the fabulous fonts of Craig Frazier.
In an animal alphabet called “Living Letters” — complete with vowels — Frazier has created a merry menagerie that will be featured for the next two weeks at a “pop-up store” run by San Jose software giant Adobe in a San Francisco gallery space. By designing letters as livestock, he has breathed new life into the cave paintings of lost civilizations.
(4.00 out of 5)