Posts Tagged ‘T-shirt’

Language is a strange beast, I’ve recently attempted to learn some basic Japanese Kanji as I’m very interested in other languages that use entirely different written systems from the latin alphabet, such as Kanji and Cyrillic, why you say? Well because of the interesting graphic opportunities that can occur between languages.

For a good example of this take a look at the UK Japan 2008 project on Johnsonbanks website or this eye article. Michael Johnson’s project to make a ‘phonetic typeface’ that English speakers can understand.

http://www.johnsonbanks.co.uk/

I came across a Japanese website which had this Kanji symbol for hito meaning person (correct me if I’m wrong) twice underlined as a hyperlink, which I saw as meaning bikini. I don’t think it can really be counted as one of the interesting graphic opportunities I was talking about but hey.

Here’s how this ridiculous misuse of an ancient typographic system might look on a T-shirt.

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