Square word calligraphy and the importance of style

Hanzi is a system that inspires many of us who write with alphabets, it's a way of writing things that seems too complex and too beautiful to represent word yet it is used by billions of people every day. Square word calligraphy is not Hanzi however it is very much inspired by it's style: xu bing turned the roman alphabet into a more complex way of combining glyphs that looks very visually distinct. Here is the key I think the creation of this system goes to show that there is more to a writing system than just conveying information, the glyphs you choose, the style they're in and the way they combine are important factors in making a good script.

Keep on scripting neographers!

For more information https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/73325 and https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/swc.htm