Language & Typography

Exhibition

Objective

Create a visual representation of the connection between language and typography, focusing on how the publication of The Divine Comedy created the groundwork for the unification of the modern Italian language.

Deliverables

Digitally printed canvas mounted on particle board in various sizes

1 30”x44”
1 22”x30”
2 14”x20”
2 10”x30”
2 6”x14”
2 12”x14”

Solution

Using a typographic and illustrative solution, I created 10 canvases, set up in a triptych, showcasing written passages and features from the three parts of Dante’s The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso. Each step was carefully planned out, to make sure it aligned with Dante’s love of the numerology surrounding the number three, as well as showing the interconnectivity between the history of the Italian language, The Divine Comedy and the history of typography.