kalegrafia iker bereziartua
A project started at the “Tipografía 3“ seminar by Hernan Ordoñez
The idea for "kalegrafia" ("street graphics") came from looking at tombstones in different graveyards in the Basque Country. On those tombstones, there are linked up letters which save space and avoid mistakes being made. Different styles of writing, the proof of lively and dynamic personalities, are also a beautifully contradictory way of expressing dead people's names. Typography travels through time, history and space. They go from urban environments to the countryside and back again. The letters chiselled in marble in the cities of the Roman Empire went to the words engraved in the beams of 17th century Basque farmhouses and, from there, to the graffiti in our streets today.
The idea for "kalegrafia" ("street graphics") came from looking at tombstones in different graveyards in the Basque Country. On those tombstones, there are linked up letters which save space and avoid mistakes being made. Different styles of writing, the proof of lively and dynamic personalities, are also a beautifully contradictory way of expressing dead people's names. Typography travels through time, history and space. They go from urban environments to the countryside and back again. The letters chiselled in marble in the cities of the Roman Empire went to the words engraved in the beams of 17th century Basque farmhouses and, from there, to the graffiti in our streets today.
