Alphabetical Playground - Nigel Cottier urban art the bureaucratization of curating

the bureaucratization of curating

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Alphabetical Playground - Nigel Cottier urban art the bureaucratization of curatingFollowing the success of Letterform Variations, Nigel Cottier presents a study into the alphabet as medium in his new book Alphabetical Playground. From this has emerged a catalogue of numerous alphabets and letterforms (estimated at around 7,000 unique letterforms), all created using a series of systems, codes and themes to generate expression and form within the confines of the alphabetic code. With a theme or system for each letter of the alphabet,