Scripturient: Possessing a violent desire to write.
Tarantism: A disorder characterized by an uncontrollable urge to dance.
The Project Twins‘ collection of curious prints adds boldly graphic visuals to long-forgotten words in the English language. I’m an admirer from concept to execution. Stellar style of the artwork aside, there’s a part of me that feels so badly for the lost words that I’m thrilled they’ve been given another breath or two! It’s all absolutely gorgonizing, don’t you agree?
As seen on automatism.
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These are so nerdy-cool. Love them! :)
I think my favorite is the print for “biblioclasm”: it’s such a nifty word, and the picture is amazing!
I love these prints! I am in the midst of starting to put together a nursery and I think it would be great to get several of these prints vs. the typical “A is for apple, B is for Balloon” type ones.
These are amazing! I particularly love “welter” — meaning a confused mass; a jumble; turmoil or confusion. This print accurately reflects my state of mind most days! :) Thanks for sharing this site! I heart words, and the way they’ve used the art to depict these antiquated words is absolutely delightful!
I think it’s also important to create new words that seem to be long-forgotten words from another time. “Vomituous”: of and or causing expectorations from the mouth see: Charlie Sheen.
Thanks so much for the sweet mention — isn’t it a great project?
Lori
:-)
Sad and unrelated note, on bloglovin the top picture was cut off where it starts to come down to a point, so it looked like a woman’s skirt. I instantly got sad and thought this post would be about losing a child before it was born (try covering up the pointed part of the pen and see if you can see what I saw). That instant sadness I felt just goes to show how powerful images can be.
Sorry to bring the mood down….!
These are fantastic. Ostentiferous was so eery and perfect. I think montivagant is the quite a good summary of my life these days. Thanks for sharing!