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Is It Art, or Is It Type? What We Learn When Language is Built, Not Written

Eye on Design

Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press, Every Word Unmade (Neon Alphabet), 2007. In her work Here on Future Earth , she employs her Cree Comic Sans in a series of photographs that show everyday scenes in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, replacing the English on shop signs and town wayfinding with Cree syllabics.

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