Book from the ground
by Xu, Bing · first published 2013
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"Xu Bing spent seven years gathering materials, experimenting, revising, and arranging thousands of pictograms to construct this narrative. The result is a readable story without words recording 24 hours in the day of the life of a typical urban white-collar worker. Using an exclusively visual language, the text could be published anywhere without translation"--Back cover.
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"writing, but for people who can't write" Reminds me of Book from the Ground[1], a novel written entirely in pictograms. The intent is to write a story that any person - even someone who's illiterate - can read. I should mention that it can really only be made legible to sighted…
on “Eve: the dev diary of a programming environment aimed at non-programmers” ↗I think the book "Book from the Ground" by Xu Bing shows what can be done with an emoji-only format. I found the book on a whim at a used book store, and found it a fascinating "read". Excerpts: http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/always-pioneer-artist-xu-bi...
on “Emojipedia.org” ↗…font rendering technology. The logical end result of this is, I believe, emoji. Or something very close to it / evolved from it. To get an idea of what I mean, you might want to check out Xu Bing's "Book from the Ground", which is a very readable book written in emoji, or something close to it. You can read about his work here: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/emojis-comics-novel-futu...
on “Lojban: Constructed language to eliminate ambiguity from communication” ↗