Tag: Tim Brookes
Tim Brookes’ New Book, By Hand, Explores the Impact of Handwriting on Community and Language Preservation
Is handwriting about to become a lost art in the United States? Tim Brookes tackles this question in his new book, which is not so much a curmudgeon’s lament as an adventure that explores the pen, paper, human hand, and human mind.
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: A New Book From Tim Brookes
The new book is a global exploration of the many writing systems that are on the verge of vanishing, the stories and cultures they carry with them, and the people who are trying to save them.
Writing Beyond Writing
The book is at once an historical overview of scripts, a memoir about carving endangered scripts, a manifesto that takes aim at the dominance of the Latin script, and — perhaps most vitally — a clarion call to save the scripts used by marginalized peoples around the world.