July 23rd, 2007

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Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann is an alphabet formed of shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below.

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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.

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“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.”

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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.”

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The alphabet was presented in a booklet contained in a box (we think, our German isn’t so good).



Posted by Marcus Fairs

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16 Responses to “dezeen loves… Type the Sky”

  1. gualberto Says:

    beautiful!!

  2. eli Says:

    simple! creative! amazing point of view! intelligent! i love it!

  3. siniz Says:

    b.e.a.tiful it is!

  4. Smarty Says:

    Beguiling, intelligent and very cute!

  5. Jim Says:

    That’s really interesting….

  6. Cate in IL Says:

    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!

  7. carol Florida Says:

    I really like it! Great idea!

  8. Giuseppe Says:

    Uao.

  9. larry seow Says:

    wow great!!!

  10. Tyran Says:

    Wow that’s cool! What an awesome concept!

  11. Maxine Hofman Says:

    superlative wow!

  12. LA Says:

    photoshoped helped??? not that original then

  13. EonS OneS Says:

    A yes, continuing S. Johnson’s work. Nice!

  14. dyswis Says:

    feckin brilliant

  15. mate Says:

    So, I love it, I would love to have it
    how can I get it?

    best reggards
    Mate
    thxs, great!

  16. mycheng13 Says:

    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!!

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