I received my copy of Grafik magazine through the post on Friday, and found a really nice article in there, discussing a piece of work by Sam Winston titled "A Dictionary Story." This fits perfectly with my main topic at the moment looking at language and how it can be displayed visually thus this has proved to be a great research reference. The book shows an illustrated story in which words from the dictionary come to life and take on human characteristics. It is a very playful book, playing with the need to achieve legibility and also have a strong visual aesthetic and finding a great balance between the two. The book takes the format of a dictionary and applies it to a fairy tale, making the boring dictionary much more interesting visually, as words escape from the traditional constraints of sentences and lines, escaping the regiment of the dictionary format to unfold as a new story.
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