Omniglot gallery

Examples of artwork involving or inspired by writing systems and languages. If you have created some writing or language-related art and would like it to appear in this gallery, please contact me.


Word Art

Images that incorporate words from many different languages by Antonios Panagopoulos

Word Art

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Hebrew calligraphy

Hebrew, Arabic and Cuneiform calligraphy by Yakov Miletzki.

Letter pictures

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Yakov Miletzki's website


Letter pictures

Pictures by Yaman Kayihan that combine letters, numerals and other symbols in interesting ways.

Letter pictures

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Yaman Kayihan's website | More examples of this art can be found here and here


Endangered Alphabets

Examples of Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Endangered Alphabets carved into wood by Tim Brookes.

Endangered Alphabets

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More information about Tim Brookes' Endangered Alphabets Project


Calligraphy art

Examples of calligraphic art by Margaret Shepherd.

Calligraphic art

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More examples of Margaret Shepherd's work


Persian calligraphy

Examples of Persian calligraphy provided by Payman Hamed from Tabriz in Iran.

Persian calligraphy

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Vertical English Character and Calligraphy (VEC)

These pieces of calligraphy are in English, but designed to look like ancient (seal style) Chinese characters.

Vertical English Character and Calligraphy (VEC)

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Paintings by Peggy Shearn inspired by language and writing systems

Paintings by Peggy Shearn inspired by language and writing systems

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Painting by Mike O'Connell

This painting features letters and glyphs from many different writing systems.

Painting featuring letters and glyphs from many different writing systems by Mike O'Connell

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Script drawings by Venantius Pinto

Script drawings by Venantius Pinto

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More drawings and paintings by Venantius Pinto


Lavori in pirografia da Edoardo Triscoli

Edoardo has created a series of wooden pieces featuring article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other texts in various languages and alphabets.

Lavori in pirografia da Edoardo Triscoli

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More pirografia

La pirografia artistica di Luigi Conci
http://www.luigiconci.com


Images from Ventiçello

Ventiçello is a miniature ceramic village sculpted by Steven Travis, who also invented a language and script called Tapissary, which appears on the images.

Images from Ventiçello by Steven Travis

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Hieroglyphic Collages

a video about the Tapissary language and script

More images and stories from Ventiçello
http://www.tapissary.com

Learn Chinese Characters with the Omniglot Chinese app