Cuneiform and Code

I wrote an article in 2008 for colorburned.com, and had to create a masthead for the article.

The article was about graphic design's history, and how it hasn't changed since the beginning of writing, as the first scribes penned the first letters, becoming designers themselves.

I had to bring the two ideas together, seperated by thousands of years.

(Interesting note, the Antikythera Mechanism was a computer, but of course nothing to what we have currently. Although if the library of Alexandria had not burned down and Rome not plunged into a Dark Age, we would be colonizing other planets due to the rate of technological expansion, had it gone unhindered.)

So the solution was this image.

The symbols are true Cuneiform from advanced Sumerian scripts after they developed from logographic forms.