The Kaba Ornament designbrief What a beauty

What a beauty

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(We know that only counting twenty-six is a gross oversimplification and that we’re ignoring non-Latin scripts

Haruka Misawa is a Japanese designer whose experience working at Nendo and the Hara Design Institute informed her minimal aesthetic in the fields of graphic signage

The Kaba Ornament designbrief What a beautyIts a small miracle that our favorite writers can create a world with twenty six letters. (We know that only counting twenty six is a gross oversimplification and that were ignoring non Latin scripts. But hang in there.) As we were writing: Its a miracle that anything can be done with twenty six letters. Bram de Does created a remarkable graphic landscape with just two shapes: The Kaba ornament. Hes filled 400 pages with vignettes, borders, and