“Bold graphics and visual wit are used to interpret and represent a collection of strange, unusual and lost words“. Queste le parole con cui James e Michael Fitzgerald, noti come The Project Twins, descrivono la serie di 26 illustrazioni presentata durante la Design Week Dublin 2011. Ognuna di esse interpreta una parola particolarmente strana, in molti casi caduta in disuso, allo scopo di indagarne e riscoprirne il significato.
C – Cacodemonomania
The pathological belief that one is inhabited by an evil spirit.
F – Fanfaronade
Swaggering; empty boasting; blustering manner or behavior; ostentatious display.
K – Ktenology
The science of putting people to death.
N – Noegenesis
Production of knowledge.
P – Pogonotrophy
The act of cultivating, or growing and grooming, a mustache, beard, sideburns or other facial hair.
S – Scripturient
Possessing a violent desire to write.
T – Tarantism
A disorder characterised by an uncontrollable urge to dance.
V – Vernalagnia
A romantic mood brought on by Spring.
Y – Yonderly
Mentally or emotionally distant; absent-minded.
A position in which any decision or move will result in problems.
