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Decoding Serdang 04: Vernacular Type (Pt 2)

Published on 4 September, 2009 by | 7 | Filed under: Gallery | Tags: , , , , ,

by Tan Zi Hao

Inside: a photogallery of handwritten signs, advertising agencies, and abstracted pictograms affixed to household grills!

Part two of a local boy’s typographical adventure to decipher the visual language of the New Village.


Decoding Serdang 04: Vernacular Type (Pt 1)

Published on 2 September, 2009 by | 10 | Filed under: Gallery | Tags: , , , ,

by Tan Zi Hao

Never underestimate the vernacular!

Whether it is a commercial message, spiritual, abstract or instructive, these forms of typographical communication attest to the villagers’ expressiveness that were, in the past, suppressed and left unnoticed.


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