Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Typographic Confabulation with Finnegans Wake | Brain Pickings
▻http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/24/id-grids-and-ego-graphs-jacob-drachler
Long before the Tumblr era of visual quotes, long before the ubiquity of typographic treatments of famous words, long before the age of art and design projects inspired by literary classics, in 1978, to be precise, Brooklyn-born artist and poet Jacob Drachler (1909-1998) released #Id-Grids and #Ego-Graphs: A Confabulation With Finnegans Wake (public library) – a visually gripping suite of 44 graphics that captures in a beautifully abstract, ethereal yet tangibly coherent way the essence of the dense Joyce classic.
