In this special essay, Adrian Frutiger investigates the relationship between geometric signs and the human world of feeling. ?An inborn geometry of feelings lies deep within human beings.?
Frutiger attempts to employ elementary signs and fundamental patterns such as the cross, square and other signs in order to arrive at and bring light to analytical deliberations about the behavior of the viewer. Astounding results come to light therein. Frutiger arrives at a duality of forms through the presentation and description of basic symbols such as the square, the circle, the triangle and the line. Throughout all of the human undertakings to comprehend oneself and the environment, the explorations of duality appear all over again: life and death, and here and hereafter, and good and evil.
A selection of more complex sign systems, the ?complete? signs, as Frutiger calls them, is selected at the end of numerous possible systems. Perhaps the desire might arise in the reader to search for further figures while contemplating the work at hand.
