This is an ancestor of the post-modern typographic abstraction found in much of today’s graffiti murals. Glyphs are transformed to create a duality of semiotics between language and image. Peacay has done a nice little write-up on a great subject which is often overlooked and sorely in need of further documentation particularly some which contextualises this work to what we see today in typography and graphic design.
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