In the dystopian society of Columbia Liva, a new system of communication is needed for the four classes - Elites, Programmers, Cyborgs, and Robots - to communicate with each other. This system uses organic alphabetic vocal waves to convert words to a robotic binary-like number sequence to allow organic and robotic life forms to speak to each other. The four dialects are unique to the life form and are increasingly complicated as they move down the social scale, alluding to an underlying narrative that the high class is losing touch with society because they would never learn such a poor, robotic language. This concept flips the social class dynamics we know today on its head.
A new set of glyphs for the hybrid dialect, including an alphabet and status indicators, allows the user to note if it is a positive, neutral, or negative interaction.
A 16-page slide deck telling the story of 2074’s new language. RESEARCH
ITERATION
Creating a future. In this future world, we created a society of organic and non-organic life forms. This society is split into 4 classes having two alphabetic and organic, numeric and non- organic. these two forms
PROCESS
Alpha numera, the hybrid language between Morse and English, follows the traditional letter forms of the English alphabet using the dots and dashes of each letter in Morse code. This language is for the programmers.
CONCLUSION
It was interesting to learn how to lead, organize, and collaborate with two other designers. The dynamics of this group proved to be great in brainstorming, creating a great environment for creative progress.
Creating the language of Alpha Numera was an incredible process that came from exploring the past, the present, and what people believed the future would look like throughout history. This process taught us how to stretch our brains to create whole new worlds.
View Alphanumera through Brandi Witeck’s AR visualization of our work.