Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Vyaz'

I am fascinated with decorative Russian style of headings known as Vyaz. Here, I've been fiddling with the idea.....traditional by no means but in the spirit of the vyaz ligatures.
I've adjusted the type here with western letters to represent how it might look in
R
ussian.

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6 comments:

Annabel said...

Very interesting :)

Only that I think the geometry of "Ь" is so different from "b", that I would rather use capital B and delete the upper hemishpere in Photoshop...

Victoria Pittman said...

Yeah...I need to get some cyrillic fonts. too much trouble trying to make it work!

I found an interesting site from Russia and there is a link. Do you know these folks?

Annabel said...

>Yeah...I need to get some cyrillic fonts.
>too much trouble trying to make it work!

Do you want me to send you some? Standard Windows-based at least?

>I found an interesting site from Russia
>and there is a link. Do you know these folks?

I don't see a link... :(

Victoria Pittman said...

Would love some! Thanks.
The link is to the right on the bottom of my list just above "my images"

Do you have a site I can add as well??

Annabel said...

Oh! That one I know! I read them as well, and somtimes post there, too :)
I have my own blog as well: Vademecum, but most posts are in Russian. Still - there are some calligraphy posts there...
For instance,
http://sciuro.livejournal.com/161567.html

I'm going to redisign it very soon, working on it now....

Annabel said...

PS pictures at http://sciuro.livejournal.com/161567.html are clicable :)