Meditations on Paradox, Metaphor, Pop Culture, Travel, and Other Interesting Topics
Friday, March 03, 2006
Colorizing the Mayan Glyphs
Here's another project I'm working on. The vast catalog of Mayan glyphs, many still undeciphered, lend themselves beautifully to coloration. Here's a sample. Eventually, I will post an entire sample sheet of all my colored glyphs. Here's another:
The glyphs will stimulate your design instincts. Using Photoshop and Graphic Converter, the variations are endless. I've worked for hours on a single glyph, getting the colors and filter effects just right. Someday I will render them as 3D virtual objects that canhandled and viewed from different angles.
Hypothetical future society communicates universal archetypes/ideas through use of Rubic's cubes and Mayan glyph flash cards as per Herman Hesse's Glass Bead game.