As we spend our days increasingly glued to our computers and handheld
devices, rapidly tapping keywords into Google, cutting and pasting Word
docs and texting urgently truncated messages, it is becoming
increasingly rare to pen anything by hand. No wonder hand-written fonts
are all the rage in the world of graphic design. Writing, like drawing,
has become an endangered act. Drawings on Text--which explores the
idea that when a hand-written note is illegible, it becomes a
drawing--is the third book in this series, edited by Dutch artist Serge
Onnen. The handwritten can take many forms, from an illegibly scrawled
letter to initials carved into a tree with a knife. A catholic selection
of the hand-written-as-drawing is included in this innovative volume,
which was first published in Zing magazine. Included are pieces by
John Cage, Napoleon Bonaparte, Olav Westphalen, Roland Barthes, Gustave
Flaubert and Victor Hugo, among others.