Priest And Prophet
JUXTAPOZ|Summer 2018, n 206

The R-Rated ABCs of Rammellzee

Carlo McCormick
Priest And Prophet

Elaborating on the ornate and abstract visual language of wild style graffiti, Rammellzee decided to create his own alphabet, arming the letter for assault against the tyranny of our information age. A visionary, polymath and autodidact, Rammellzee infused urban vernacular with a complex and hermeneutic meta-structure that was informed equally by the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, the history of military strategy and design, radical politics and semiotics.

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