As mentioned in the last post, I started with turning QR code visuals into an alphabet, and established a primitive writing and grammar system. There is no punctuation, as the icon of a square within another square serves as the break marker – it functions as a code locator and aligner to guide the scanning device through the QR code pattern.
This fictional language function as a Phonetician alphabet. I created the letters according to scripts in Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Arabic alphabets, then I started writing with it.
To bring it to a larger, more wholesome scale, I should create a publication in this language. Preferably, in the format of an old book before the age of computer – to create sheer juxtaposition and bring out QR codes’ runic nature.
It will be possible to decode, but not without extensive challenges. And soon I ran into my own – it is near impossible to translate any text into pure 2D code form within the given timeframe.
Then I introduced a second approach: generate full QR codes based on text paragraphs, and break it apart like a jigsaw puzzle, then rearrange it into a format of typical pre-digital writing.
So far this format fulfil the utilitarian purpose of filling up a book, but in my opinion, rigorously using the alphabet to create a book is the better way to respond to the brief. I will suggest readers to see this block of codes as a spacefiller, which is meant to be painstakingly composed with a novel alphabet.