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Character building workshop with Jill Robertson

Who designed our letters?  I know they went through a series of evolutionary phases before getting to the recognisable letters we know as our alphabet, but at some time someone said they liked the look of a certain shape.  To describe how to put a letter together you could describe A as two diagonal lines meeting at the top with a crossbar half way down – or some such.

Our workshop for April was all about making up your own series of symbols from a given description. I gave the description and all the students made a dozen or so possible interpretations of my words.  As an example I started with “ A straight line and 2 dots”

My examples were:

Then the students got to work.  A couple of the descriptions I gave them were:

1. A vertical line and a semi-circle
2. A triangle and a circle

You get the idea?  Gradually people chose the ones they liked and used different tools and colours to draw them.

There were some fantastic results and much fun was had by all.  It was not a deep and meaningful workshop,  but was lots of fun.