The alphabet of this issue of MAH! was designed after an inscription found in a remote cemetery in Tuscany on the gravestone of a metal worker (died in 1919 due to the Spanish flue) and after the discovery that in a town nearby the blacksmiths that forged nails formed like a tribe on their own, with their own traditions and their own language. Could they also have had their own writing and their own alphabet? And the inscription on the gravestone, carved with cuneiform-type of characters that reminded of nails, could it be the proof?
In this issue of MAH! the alphabet designed after the gravestone of the blacksmith was used to feature Arthur Rimbaud’s poem VOYELLES (WOWELS).
Nails, aren’t they a perfect metaphor for language.. words.. the letters of the alphabet.. and mobile type?