#Book of Glyphs

[uwmspeccoll]

Marbled Monday

Well if it isn’t time for another Marbled Monday! This week’s marbling was found while preparing items to be loaned for an upcoming exhibition at MIAD’s Layton Gallery celebrating over 40 years of Woodland Pattern Book Center, Then as Now: Woodland Pattern 1980-2022. The exhibition will be on display this fall, from October 10, 2022 to December 2, 2022. 

The book is by poet, activist, publisher and member of the rock band the Fugs Ed Sanders. This facsimile edition of A Book of Glyphs was published by Granary Books in New York City in 2014 in an edition of 51 copies numbered and signed by the poet. The book was produced by Diane Bertolo and Steve Clay with Tom Damrauer and Katherine Kuehn. It was printed by Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints and bound by Judith Ivry who also made the boxes and bound Glyph Notes, an accompanying text with descriptions/explanations of the glyphs. Click each image to see the accompanying note. 

There’s no information in the colophon about the marbling, but I believe it’s either a shell pattern or it is overprinted. There is multi-colored veining in red, yellow, cream, and black over a mottled blue pattern. 

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#Marbled Monday #Ed Sanders #Edward Sanders #glyphs #Book of Glyphs #The Fugs #marbled paper #marbling #Granary Books #shell pattern #overprint #Woodland Pattern #Woodland Pattern Book Center #exhibitions #Alice

[mumblelard]

manifestations of my familiar or first five favorites shuffle

#battered old bookshelves #battered old books #boba #brazil #mumblelard #reversed #melonheads #crescent shadows #creatures #tokyo tower #loose ends #glimmers #glyphs #quonset huts #blue tarps #first five favorites shuffle #friends of bob #rattling bars #lost words #second blue moon epoch #first spring

[bookwyrminspiration]

it took me longer than I care to admit to realize the reason tmos’s cover is an elephant is probably because elephants are Thaena’s sacred animal. and thaena sure was. important. that book

#a chorus of dragons #the memory of souls #that covers bothered me for a while #well. not bothered. but bemused #book 1 dragon makes sense. sharanakal #book 2 horse: horat #book 4 kraken: the Lash #book 5: kind of a halo around a skull? kind of divine and dead? which fits well enough #also with the glyphs on them #but an elephant…? there are no elephants in book 3 #my first though was the whole thing about elephants having long memories #and it’s the memory of souls #but that always felt weak #however! thaena is tied to elephants #and she sure was present and influential that book #so. that seems more correct #took me a while to put together #still might be wrong though

[i-can-even-burn-salad]

Something something tag game

I was tagged by @burnticedlatte and I should be working, so obviously I'm doing this now.

favorite color: depends on the mood, but blue usually wins. creative, i know.

last movie/tv show: movie, halfway through the outsider, "tv" show, 7 vs wild

currently watching: the cursor blink in notepad while I ponder the answers

sweet/spicy/savory: sweet

relationship status: not anyone's business, is it

current obsession: I'm out-obsessed after spending every waking hour for half a year on Till Death, but video games always work

last google search: how would I know, I don't even remember where I left my water glass

Why are those always so boring. Why not currently reading, or last game played, or last little treat bought, or most used emoji, or favorite font, or—

#salad-tag #it's me i'm the oc #hm perhaps the google search a lie #since I started typing I had to look up the exact dimensions of din a5 #but when I wrote it I didn't know #also the answers are #the outsider by penelope williamson #guild wars 2 guild wars 2 guild wars 2 #physically: an iced coffee which I haven't touched yet #digitally: book 3+4 in a German series even though I haven't read 2 yet #but 1 was fun and I am a bit paranoid that the series might be gone by the time I'll get to it #discord says it's 😂 though now that I got nitro again the 'lying facedown' splat emoji is gaining ranks #I am very fond of Book Antiqua - beautiful round Cs and Gs #not too happy with the kerning between the quotation mark and an upper case A but perhaps my program just sucks #I always do a search and replace to set the width to -200 between those two glyphs xD professional *cough*

[liapher]

when a book starts with an author's note on the linguistics research that went into it. thank you

#sidenote. i should reallyreallyreally finish the maya glyphs book i started two years ago oops #the actual star

[tenth-sentence]

It would have been nicer if there had not been strange signs painted in scarlet on the doors – twisty, complicated things which obviously had a meaning and mightn't be a very nice meaning either.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" - C. S. Lewis

#book quote #the chronicles of narnia #the voyage of the dawn treader #c s lewis #strange #signs #glyphs #scarlet #doors

[matejvojtus]

Nejkrásnější české knihy roku 2022 The Most Beautiful Czech Books of the Year 2022

Posuď knihu podle obalu. Judge a book by its cover. 

Catalogue for @nckr_2022

📸 @filip_beranek ✍️ @maxime_mouysset 🎸🎹 Jan Foukal a Albert Romanutti @pindees__@bertandfriends

#graphic design #typography #bookdesign #book #glyphs #illustration #measure

[rubberbandballqueen]

it is becoming Increasingly Clear to me that i can no longer be taken out into public because i will start doing to fonts what jirt would do to the rocks and plants whilst on little walks

#the worm speaks #i'm noticing that a lot of signage these days don't have small caps which is a bit sad but i suppose they are somewhat antiquated #most of them have just straight up all-caps and i'm like 'mmmm. would a small caps version be better here?' #the other day i was like 'what if i left everything behind to get a job at a type foundry in taiwan. what then.' #what would i bring to the table there? why a sense of western aestheticism for the latin glyphs in their fonts #combined with a lesser but probably still noteworthy knowledge of chinese calligraphy to help ensure there is a sense of unity #btwn the latin and chinese glyphs #and also kerning i would bring kerning to the table for the latin glyphs. like if we Must be monospace abt things we can do that #but on god. the number of times i download a cn script font and go 'ah.' bc the english is the Ugliest monospace serif you'll ever see #fortunately while it is a bit of work it's at least easier to match english fonts to cn ones bc there are So Many more free ones lol #the other day i was looking through a chinese font website n i was reading their ~story~ behind this one particular series #that they based off the calligraphy in these five or six Ancient Rare Books in the national palace museum #and they were like 'yes the poetry was beautiful and moving. but to a type designer the writing itself is even more attractive' #and i felt so called out. i have just the most incurable font disease on the planet lmao #the other thing i think that might be neat to bring to cn font design Would be the concept of italics #like i know that's just not a standard thing and that Makes sense bc to oblique the letters is just #like. why would you do that. it's hard to read. but the spirit of italics is to change the font style entirely whilst keeping in harmony #with the rest of the regular typeface which i think would be Neat to bring in esp since italics usually have a bit more flourish to them #the other day i also found out that fangsong is used in government documents n i was like #>:0 no wonder it has every character and variant known to man......

[kicktwine]

hunters outfit and hidey hole look. awful but i know exactly where and why he got every bit of it and thats props to toh for having really good bg visual storytelling + character motives

#TOH spoilers #TOH #kipspeak #pants and shoes self explanatory kept them #shirt he kept but threw his jersey on over it because that’s a hexside thing. He definitely belongs here and should be here #People will question him rooting around in the library less if he’s wearing hexside stuff. Probably. #cloak thing that’s definitely like a prop from the theatre made of a blanket or something. it’s to be….. hidden #uh. Sort of. Hey anything to make you feel safer buddy #Not actually sure where he got that gray bandaWAIT yes I do. Luz. hunting palismen #… maybe flapjack went back and got it for him #aw….. he kept all of the stuff his friends gave him #he chucked that gold armor layer though. It’s not in his pile #hex mix and apple juice (blood now that we know there’s. Non alcoholic versions) - cafeteria leftovers #flapjack s was trying to bring him actual food but it WAS from the trash. dude is probably kind of hungry #I assume the sleeping bag was just here like the broom. The bag was either also here; in lost and found; or he nabbed it #FULL of glyphs and paper #sleeping bag obvious. Cozy. Bag of glyphs important because they saved your lives once they will do it again #The books!! From the library probably. He’s researching himself…………. #one of them says grimwalkers #reading up on your species. Looks like they’re not the most helpful though based on how they’re set and how there’s three? #all this to say TOH has really good visual storytelling #like gus’ eye thing 1) RULES 2) is a visual indicator of Spell Worky (also it’s metaphorical) #but the background/character/prop design is very good at hey wait I just realized he has a purse too where did you get that one bud #have I seen that before? #anyways 2 hunter love the cloak he love layers. You’re gonna overheat if you’re not careful #I have to go back and look at gus’ room again he has a cute pile of rare human treasures

[thorinkingoferebor]

Finally beat the Returnal DLC so have some screenshots :D thought the story couldn't get more devastating but I was wrong :))))))))

#I love the aesthetics of this game so much #wish they would release an art book #it's so creepy and pretty #now i'll just have to spend another 50 hours to collect the last 5 or so scout logs I missed because I need them #plus the few glyphs i'm missing so i can get the correct translations for yet further trauma :D #text posts by thea #thea plays returnal

[sheppyscribbles]

The Mark of the Heavens

This sigil appears on the back of Justin's left hand, shortly after his parents are killed in the Siege of Sommerfahren Palace. He tries to keep it hidden, as it marks him the heir to the throne of Barlovia (which is, for all intents and purposes, no longer a nation). When unable to wear gloves, he keeps his left arm bandaged to cover it up.

Over the course of his travels, the Mark gradually fills with power - and as it does, the colors grow more vibrant in turn. At full power, stars can be seen twinkling in the background, as though the Mark were a stained glass window looking out over a night sky ...

#luprand art #justin ohicidhe #mark of the heavens #the book of changes #magic circle #runes #glyphs #sigil

[byoldervine]

Primary Glyphs - A lesson in my WIP's main magic system

Persephone Foster may be a human, but that doesn't mean that my main character is incapable of magic. Glyph magic is the main magic system that will be explored in Byoldervine, and so I thought it would be good to provide a quick crash course on how it works. I'll start with just the building blocks of glyph magic; the primary glyphs

The primary glyphs are very simple; fire, water, earth and air. By drawing the glyphs and activating them, the user can create the desired element and manipulate it at their will, though this can take a lot of practice to pull off safely and successfully. This is why Ellegaarde teaches glyph magic at the Ampitheatre and why many glyph magic users in Paracosm seek out someone to train them before it's considered safe to use them

Glyphs also can't be drawn on just any old object; they need to be drawn onto the wood of a remaligo tree in order to absorb the magic within them. Remaligo trees are often made into paper that are then referred to as spell tags in order to conveniently draw a glyph onto. The tag is then absorbed into pure magic to conjure up the intended spell, so the glyphs are essentially just harnessing the magic in the spell tag in a specific way to achieve the desired outcome

#writing #writers #writeblr #bookblr #my writing #book #fantasy #original #byoldervine #magic #magic system #glyphs #glyph magic #persephone foster #spells #magic spells #spell tags #fire glyph #water glyph #earth glyph #air glyph #elemental glyphs #primary glyphs #main glyphs #lore #world lore

[graphicpolicy]

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#batman & robin adventures #comic books #Comics #deep cuts #glyph awards #junji ito #star wars: darth vader black white red

[hattedhedgehog]

My Dragon Age Inquisition character card embroideries all together! Each is 11.5x19.5 cm. Dorian took 73 hours, Cassandra took 89 hours, and Sera took 75 hours.

I wonder which character I'll do next...

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[Image descriptions: Embroidered versions of the Dorian, Cassandra and Sera character selection card from Dragon Age Inquisition.

Dorian holds a book under his left arm while casting magic with his right. There are white glyphs in the air and a white snake running under his cloak and under his arm.

Cassandra sits atop a war horse with Inquisition soldiers behind her. She wears black armour with a gold-trimmed cloak, and the Seeker flag and he cloak stream behind her.

Sera stands atop a slanted tree trunk with her bow held suggestively between her legs, looking at the Skyhold tower in the distance, where the tiny figure of the inquisitor is present in the window. Mountains and turrets make up the background behind her.]

#dragon age #dragon age inquisition #tarot #embroidery #dorian pavus #cassandra pentaghast #dragon age embroidery #my embroidery #fibercraft #dragon age tarot

[luzurathehuman]

whats the best demon realm book you have read

Oh hoh oh...! DEFINITELY the one about glyph combinations!!!

I found it at Hexside's library once and MAN DIDN'T I LOVE IT!!💕💖📚📖

#glyphs #luz noceda #luz #the demon realm #demon realm #book #books #rp #the owl house #ask #toh #roleplay #ENOUGH TAGS

[hedgehog-moss]

I was trying to get my donkey to eat the weeds around my vegetable garden (under strict supervision so he wouldn't pretend to mistake my rhubarb for a weed) and I got a visit from two people on bicycles, who said they were staying at a campsite and cycling from farm to farm trying to find information about their ancestors, who according to family documents, lived in this region in the 1600s. Like a genealogy-themed holiday—that's a fun idea. I told them the name of the family who owned my land in the late 1700s and said I didn't have info beyond that, but they should try the nearby monastery, whose nuns wrote a book about local families, using historical photographs & archives found in schools and town halls. They were very happy with the tip.

The monastery is a nice hiking destination (you've got to follow this eerie road that I love) and the nuns have a tiny shop where they sell homemade gingerbread and jams as well as painted eggs, one time I took a friend on that hike and we stopped to buy rose petal jam and an egg from them and a nun showed us that book they'd written and told us about their interest in local archives, so I think they'll be delighted to help these visitors. I'm myself delighted because it's kind of a milestone when you live alone in the woods, to be validated in your role as a forest creature by strangers on a journey asking you to provide them with the information they need to complete their quest. Looking back on it I only wish I'd phrased my answer as a riddle, and issued a tempting warning not to touch the mysterious glyph engraved on a rock by the side of the road (I need to go engrave one first)

#crawling along