DD #106: Line Face

Today Otl Aicher made me realize how complex content can be split up in atomic elements. In his book "typographie" (written both in german / english) he discusses a special writing system phenomenon: while in egypt the first readable scripts consist of pictograms (one meaning one word) in mesopotamia they started to use 'graphemes', the first letters which actually consisted of different structures of only one single wedge line. the wedge line is the only element for the sumerian writer to define a letter which defines a word in combination with others which finally defines content.

... And this phenomenon is visually appliable: