Hildegard von Bingen Lingua Ignota

The Palace of Typographic Masonry is an (imaginary) institute for the splendour and variety of visual languages. This overview map of The Annex of Universal Languages compiled and designed by Edgar Walthert follows the format of the famous sheet map by Adrian Frutiger. It contains all examples collected in this room (housing the graphic languages in pursuit of universal systems; including utopian alphabets, iconic sign languages and ideographic systems) described on the front side while the back side features an abstract map of the signs organized according by similarity in shape.