{"id":1048,"date":"2017-06-02T07:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T14:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2017-06-02T12:05:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T19:05:06","slug":"moving-beyond-the-roman-alphabet-gabe-wong-on-sketching-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/updates\/moving-beyond-the-roman-alphabet-gabe-wong-on-sketching-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving beyond the Roman Alphabet: Gabe Wong on sketching language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gabewong.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1049\" src=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gabewong.jpg\" alt=\"Gabe Wong\" width=\"1165\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gabewong.jpg 1165w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gabewong-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gabewong-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gabewong-1024x686.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1165px) 100vw, 1165px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just last month <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/05\/19\/emoji-lawsuit-israel\/#xw81Ptz0.kqr\">an Israeli judge based a ruling\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0on the meaning inferred by a flamenco dancer emoji.<\/p>\n<p>With the rise of digital communication\u2014such as texting and Facebook messaging\u2014visual representations of spoken language are broadening beyond letters and punctuation.<\/p>\n<p>But how far can it go? What does moving beyond the colonial \u2018Roman\u2019 alphabet open up?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gabewong.com\/\">Gabe Wong<\/a> is a graphic designer and Emily Carr lecturer. Come to <a href=\"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/presenters-2017\/\">his SkIP session<\/a> to explore how reimagining writing systems can be used to help reclaim and express often marginalized cultures and identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just last month an Israeli judge based a ruling\u00a0\u00a0on the meaning inferred by a flamenco dancer emoji. With the rise of digital communication\u2014such as texting and Facebook messaging\u2014visual representations of spoken language are broadening beyond letters and punctuation. But how far can it go? What does moving beyond the colonial \u2018Roman\u2019 alphabet open up? Gabe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[42,41,43],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-emoji","tag-gage-wong","tag-roman-alphabet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1064,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sketchpractice.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}