Folk symbols

Stylized plant line drawings - from "Ancient Symbolism in Lithuanian Folk Art."

A handful of Berber symbols and their meaning.

Like many people, I have always held a deep reverence for the seasons. Not just the seasons themselves, but the way in which they bleed into one another, how light and dark ebbs and flows during one full turn around the sun. As a child during autumn, I would be filled with near-euphoric delight as t

Ornament making is one of the oldest art forms in human history. Our ancestors used ornaments to physically encode messages to their descendants and gods alike; to make sense of the world around them and to symbolically appropriate it for themselves. This has been the case since prehistory. But in the 20th century, ornaments came to be seen as relics of the past, as a sign of 'savagery', as something inappropriate for the modern world. Let's try to find out why this happened and take a look…

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Folk art flowers of the Kaszuby Region

National Gallery of Art

Bridging the gap between craftswomen and designers, creating letter forms together from the visual grammar of Godana tattoo art form and creating the typeface, Godana Jethani. As an intern at Ishan Khosla Design studio. The visuals, artwork and typefac…