Alphabetum

Alphabetum Narayanan Krishnaswamy

Alphabetum Narayanan Krishnaswamy 2017

alphabets and words to

which inspired me to create

Narayanan Krishnaswamy 2017

Author has the full right on all the designs or artworks presented here. Any part of this work covered herein may be reproduced, transmitted, stored or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including but not limited to photocopying, recording, scanning, digitizing, taping, Web distribution, information networks or information storage and retrieval systems with due intimation, credits and acknowledgment of the publisher and author. These artworks are owned by the author and has right of claim over them. This book use12pt Goudy Old Style, 50pt Brushgyo and 24pt AvantGarde Bk Bt. Cover design by the author.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy narayankrishnaswamy@gmail.com

Preface

These paintings have been created mostly during my air travels where one gets an undisturbed capsules of time - without mobile phone calls, Internet and the likes. I might have read some official papers or books, which I would have done anyhow, during this period. This time capsule is very important for the reason that one cannot move for a stroll or walk-around. This capsules are not all that convenient to sleep off too.

These paintings are all about a number of passions which I have nurtured and grown with - alphabets, words, typography, colours and shapes. This set of paintings had been brewing for decades and with the advent of digital tools available for creation these have seen the light of the day. The words for the alphabets have mostly been sourced from phrontistery.info. The artistic interpretation of these words with chosen colours, techniques and treatments are the result of interplay of number of factors..

All the art works in this book were created using I Pad Mini (Model: A1600 EMC 2849, MGJ02HN/A; Version: 10.0.2 (14A456); iOS 10.0.2) and Wacom Bamboo Stylus Fineline and on Paper-fiftythree (Version 3.6.4).

I believe this book can infuse and ignite some inspiration to anyone who is interested in alphabet, colour and design.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

Acknowledgments

This is the second book of my digital paintings, the idea for which had been fermenting for a very long time.

These artworks had been regularly uploaded in my Instagram page ‘n.krishnaswamy’ and are still one can them there. I used to mail them to Jayashree and Medha with almost nonchalant responses.

Narayanan Krishnaswamy

Abracadabra - A magical charm or incantation Brouhaha - Hubbub, uproar C’est la vie - That’s life Dulciloquent - Speaking sweetly Ecphonesis - Rhetorical exclamation Furfuracious - Granny, scaly Graviloquence - Grave speech Habromania - Insanity featuring cheerful delusions

Ictertious - Jaundiced, yellow

Jabberwock - Nonsense, gibberish Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure Lampas - Flowered silk fabric Magniloquent- Speaking in a grand or pompous style Naufrageous - In a state of danger or ruin, threatened

Omnigatherum - Miscellaneous assemblage or collection Pallasthesia - Sense of vibration Quoddamodotaive - Existing in a certain manner

Rathymia - Personality factor leading to optimism and cheerfulness

Sesquipedalian - Tending to use long or cumbersome words Tumultuary - Chaotic, haphazard Unberufen - Exclamation to avert ill luck following boasting Verdure - Greenness, health and vigour Woodshedding Xanthocyanopsy - Spontaneous barbershop singing - Form of colourblindness in which only blue and yellow can be distinguished Yogobogeybox - Mattress used by a spiritualist Zapateado - Latin-American dance with rhythmic tapping of the feet

December 07, 2016

December 09, 2016

December 12, 2016

Januar y 06, 2017

Januar y 07, 2017

Januar y 08, 2017

February 19, 2017

February 24, 2017

April 18, 2017

May 04, 2017

July 04, 2017

July 05, 2017

July 23, 2017

July 23, 2017

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July 24, 2017

July 24, 2017

August 08, 2017

August 11, 2017

September 02, 2017

September 03, 2017

September 03, 2017

September 06, 2017

September 07, 2017

September 08, 2017

September 08, 2017

Dr. N. Krishnaswamy is a design thinker and designer. He has been in the printing and graphic design industry for over three decades. He has published papers on economics, design identity and design management. He is a designer, painter, sculptor, photographer teacher and writer and is passionate about colour and shape.

Alphabetum Narayanan Krishnaswamy