Edgar Walthert

“Society of Signs – An Assembly of Visual Language”

The project societyofsigns.com is dedicated to the exploration and research of pictography. The expanding web archive showcases a wide range of design and artistic works focused on pictograms, language systems, and beyond. The eponymous exhibition sparked the launch of the web project in 2021 when due to COVID-19 regulations, visits to the show were not possible. A selection of works and texts were shown online, accompanied by a digital lecture evening featuring participating artists and curators. Creating a digital archive became the apparent next step, allowing for the inclusion of more works, topics, designers, and artists. 

This project is supported by the NEU START KULTUR program organized by the Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V.

Biography
Edgar Walthert is a type designer with a strong interest in icons and visual language. His research-based posters express this dedication. He hosts public talk formats at letterspace.amsterdam and is co-founder of the platform typo.social. He also develops websites and pushes the boundaries of variable fonts in his type foundry Font Spectrum.

In cooperation with Maxim Weirich.