sign for "SIGNS"

I've been working on numerous projects the past few weeks. There is one week left before the spring break and I've been spending a lot of time with my projects. They get a lot of my attention. I spoil them with my care. It's not fair to the other ones that need attention, projects that is, not people. I see projects as the best way for me to get to know myself. I see people as influence of thought and emotion.

I recently finished putting together a book for Graphic Design class. It was our first project of the year and we went through three sections begining with typographic systems while reading chapters from Robert Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style. Then we drew out concepts from one of the texts that we liked most and explored them typographically. Then finally we chose one concept and executed the passage it as a sequence on eight pages.

This was the text I chose and I spent weeks and weeks absorbed in it.

Language and writing are two different systems of signs;
the only purpose of the latter is to represent the former.
Linguistics is not concerned
with the connection between the written and spoken word–
its sole object is the latter: the spoken word.
But the written word is so closely bound up with the spoken, whose image it is, that it is increasingly arrogating
the main role to itself/
Ultimately the point is reached
where more importance is attached to representation
of the spoken sign than to this sign itself.
It’s like thinking that to know someone,
It is better to look at his photograph than his face.

by Ferdinand de Saussure

This became a personal project. I put myself in it by doing lots of hand writing and exploring it's potential as a spoken word concept. I'll post up the book soon when it's absolutely perfect like I want it to be.