Par : Uswim : You See What I Mean ? » Blog Archive » Visual Mind Games : when the mind takes over and goes graphical

[…] The first one is the calligram (already covered by Claude Aschenbrenner of SerialMapper, Peter Gabor of Design et Typo, or this very nice blog dedicated to it : Calligram Designers). Popularized by Dada artists in the beginning of the XXth century, it is an example of an old usage that has been developped thanks to new technologies (here photo-composition for printing). See more on this page from the University of Chicago Library. The most famous examples are from French surrealist poet Guillaume Apollinaire. […]