Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann is an alphabet formed of shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below.
According to the original post on German typographic blog Slanted (we spotted it on designboom), the alphabet was created by Rienermann while studying at the University of Duisburg-Essen.
“It began with the Q,” she tells Slanted. “I was in a kind of courtyard in Barcelona. I looked upward and saw houses, the blue sky and clouds. The more I looked, I saw that the houses formed a letter Q.”
The following is translated from Slanted’s original German: “She then set out to find more letterforms, spending weeks only looking upwards. The more difficult letters such as Q and K were the easiest to find, she says, but admits that PhotoShop helped here and there.”
The alphabet was presented in a booklet contained in a box (we think, our German isn’t so good).
July 24th, 2007 at 3:13 am
beautiful!!
July 24th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
simple! creative! amazing point of view! intelligent! i love it!
July 25th, 2007 at 7:40 am
b.e.a.tiful it is!
July 26th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Beguiling, intelligent and very cute!
July 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
That’s really interesting….
July 27th, 2007 at 3:02 am
One of those things so simple, beautiful and clever that I am moved. I’d love to see it more often: framed in my home!
July 28th, 2007 at 7:17 am
I really like it! Great idea!
August 5th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
Uao.
September 28th, 2007 at 8:27 am
wow great!!!
October 17th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Wow that’s cool! What an awesome concept!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:26 pm
superlative wow!
October 23rd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
photoshoped helped??? not that original then
November 14th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
A yes, continuing S. Johnson’s work. Nice!
November 21st, 2007 at 9:30 pm
feckin brilliant
November 26th, 2007 at 11:12 am
So, I love it, I would love to have it
how can I get it?
best reggards
Mate
thxs, great!
February 18th, 2008 at 11:35 am
wow… i love it man.. it’s very poetic..
love this kind of feeling..
would it be possible to experience these at one time in a row?
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
it’ll be super nice and EDUCATIVE!!
September 28th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
loved this. are you selling it? If so, where?
January 11th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
I really liked the idea, when I first saw it done by one of my colleges at uni in 2005…..
http://www.janpatricmetzger.com/bilder/typo01.jpg
January 11th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Okay, you never know who had the idea first – maybe even both at the same time…..its a really nice idea…..
January 15th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
simply awesome …..
February 17th, 2009 at 9:34 am
It’s so good I wish I had thought of it myself.
February 17th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Just BRILIANT!
February 17th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Just BRILIANT! Encore…!
March 30th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
WOW! That is all I can say. This is why I love design.
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:22 am
I saw it in Tupigrafia magazine #8!
June 4th, 2009 at 2:27 am
I really think the proyect is great, it opens the simple sense of one of the greatest puzzles in life; the sky !
July 4th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Amazingly creative!
August 5th, 2009 at 5:57 am
Oh my god!!!!… I’m so so…astonished and amazed and…Simply very creative… Congratulations!!!
August 12th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Quite perceptive. I like.