Calligram Designers

It was a joy receiving this SMS for best wishes in 2011 from a person who doesn't even know I love calligrams! And I was surprised to see how the complete calligram of the boat is viewable in my old cellular with a little tiny screen (can you see the scratches?!). The rest of the message was: Boarding date: 2011 Destination: Happiness Luggage: Health, Love and Harmony Have a wonderful trip! Very charming best wishes calligram, don't you think? ;-) Maybe on top of the boat instead of the two L's (in lower case) the artist could put two 1's and the calligram best wishes boat would become even more appropriate for the 2011 best wishes. We can also call this form of calligram Ascii Art : "a technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard...", says Wikipedia .

Here is a 2010 calligram greeting created with TypeDrawing (iPod Touch) by Laura Ruggeri for the design firm LR Communication Design 's corporate greeting. Laura saw two smiley eyes and one nose in 2010 and she added a happy smile with the message " let's keep smiling " for the new year.

" May the new year bring us more love, togetherness and a nourishing light in our hearts " is the message I "heard" in my heart looking at this picture. A group of children, ice skaters, arrange themselves to form the number 2010 to welcome the new year at the Ice Skating Carnival in Shimla , India. (AP/Press Association Images)

BUON 2009 (= HAPPY 2009) the annual greeting tradition "written" with the light of some windows of the Pirelli Tower in Milan, Italy. (from Corriere.it )