Type the Sky by Lisa Rienermann is an alphabet formed of shapes buildings make against the sky when photographed from below. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12.
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).
beautiful!!
simple! creative! amazing point of view! intelligent! i love it!
b.e.a.tiful it is!
Beguiling, intelligent and very cute!
That’s really interesting….
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!
I really like it! Great idea!
Uao.
wow great!!!
Wow that’s cool! What an awesome concept!
superlative wow!
photoshoped helped??? not that original then
A yes, continuing S. Johnson’s work. Nice!
feckin brilliant
So, I love it, I would love to have it
how can I get it?
best reggards
Mate
thxs, great!
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!!
loved this. are you selling it? If so, where?
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
Okay, you never know who had the idea first – maybe even both at the same time…..its a really nice idea…..
simply awesome …..
It’s so good I wish I had thought of it myself.
Just BRILIANT!
Just BRILIANT! Encore…!
WOW! That is all I can say. This is why I love design.
I saw it in Tupigrafia magazine #8!
I really think the proyect is great, it opens the simple sense of one of the greatest puzzles in life; the sky !
Amazingly creative!
Oh my god!!!!… I’m so so…astonished and amazed and…Simply very creative… Congratulations!!!
Quite perceptive. I like.
I love your imagination..
I thought this was quite good until she admitted "that PhotoShop helped here and there." Then I decided it was pointless. Why bother using any real buildings at all? Just Photoshop the lot, innit?
espectacular!