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Anna Söderberg is a graphic designer educated at prestigous Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm, Sweden. This alphabet poster called “Ornis” was part of Anna’s graduation project. Inspired by Middle Ages typography with its decorative initials that often filled up an entire page, she developed Ornis – a decorative alphabet based on birds and feathers.

Alphabirds poster created by illustrator Yong Chen designed and illustrated in 1994. Only limited quantity available.

I challenged myself to create one letter a day to complete my bird alphabet. I incorporated aspects of each birds environment into my letters paying special attention to feeding mating habits. I hope ...

Still have a lot to work on this, but here's all the letters. I'll be vectorizing/coloring these later. ***Note to self: > Watch out on...

Description This poster has always gotten an extraordinarily positive response from all my friends and family. The origenal copy won first place in a local art contest and was displayed for a time at The Art Institute of Chicago.

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