Glyphic Alphabet
for SFI
Anyway that’s the end of that, they’re out of my hands now, sadly, blissfully, so after all the splashing in pools I had no right to be in and tinkering with concepts I didn’t really grasp, didn’t try to grasp, will likely never grasp, it’s all fine, the clients know — I assume — what they were after and so they are free to use these little squiggles as they see fit, tastefully arrange them into airy layouts or shove them onto crowded pages, coddle them or torture them, deboss them, foil them, or keep them on a hard drive away from view, but ideally, if all goes to plan, they will simply act as plucky support to the ideas emitted from the Institute, wingmen to a wide swath of complex topics like Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems, (that’s a real book title) or What Algae Can Tell Us About Political Strategy (you can’t make this stuff up), but even if that’s not the case and they get trampled or ignored or superseded by a fresh set of symbols commissioned from someone else in a few months, it’s strangely comforting that as I look at them now I don’t really remember what I was thinking, how they were made, or identify much at all with their creation, as if they were designed by someone else.