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Degree Show 2024<\/h4>\n
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Arthur Bell<\/h1>\n

BA Graphic and Communication Design<\/h3>\n

As a designer, I am interested in Typography, and this project was an opportunity to research, and respond to, scripts different to my own. The work is inspired by the different-ness of the Xemahoa tribe from Ian Watson’s Sci-Fi novel ‘The Embedding’ published in 1973.<\/p>\n

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Here is my proposed Xemahoa alphabet, inspired by the smoke swirls that would be present, rising from the fire in a Xemahoa ritual. The Xemahoa People use a psychedelic drug to be able to fully articulate their language.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This shows a Xemahoa sentence, which shows the concept of the Xemahoa having no sense of linear time in a Xemahoa drug ritual. Note that the sentence can be read from any point in the loop, repeated until all the words have been completed, mimicing the idea of a ritual chant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Here is a proposed poster for if the writing system were to be displayed in a gallery exhibition, where some of the mind warping imagery is used to illustrate some of the more evocative lines in Watson’s novel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n