60 scaled and composited drawings
The Quick Brown Fox
A collective canvas
The Quick Brown Fox is a collection of drawings created anonymously by workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The pangram originally appeared in the Boston Globe and The New Yorker (1936), and was later popularized as a finger-breaker for typists, and in type specimens for its brevity yet completeness in character set. How can such a phrase, visualized in countless typefaces, be simply visualized? Workers were asked to draw "a quick brown box jumping over a lazy dog." A total of 65 drawings were composed via a digital sketch board in a period of 48 hours. Five drawings were omitted for neglecting to respond to the prompt. Workers were paid $.05 for their contribution.
Considerations
How will a sentence pictured in a multitude of typefaces be simply, pictured? And, pictured in a multitude of ways, by a multitude of people?
Does language restructure spatial cognition?
How are abstract qualities depicted?
The directionality of fox jump
Forty foxes jump left to right (only 20 right to left). The chi-square statistic is 4.2328. The p-value is .03965. The result is significant at p < .05.
Engrained in the western orientation of language proceeding rightward?
Figure and ground
4 instances of ground included, most often a green line suggesting a grassy patch
ZZZ. How do respondents indicate the laziness of the dog?
13 dogs explicitly dozing "zzz's"
Quick! How do respondents indicate the speed of movement?
21 cases of swooshes
3 cases of arrows
60 scaled and composited drawings
The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog
an exercise in drawing
The Quick Brown Fox is a collection of drawings created anonymously by workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. The pangram originally appeared in the Boston Globe and The New Yorker (1936), and was later popularized as a finger-breaker for typists, and in type specimens for its brevity yet completeness in character set. How can such a phrase, visualized in countless typefaces, be simply visualized? Workers were asked to draw "a quick brown box jumping over a lazy dog." A total of 65 drawings were composed via a digital sketch board in a period of 48 hours. Five drawings were omitted for neglecting to respond to the prompt. Workers were paid $.05 for their contribution.
Considerations
How will a sentence pictured in a multitude of typefaces be simply, pictured? And, pictured in a multitude of ways, by a multitude of people?
Does language restructure spatial cognition?
How are abstract qualities depicted?
The directionality of fox jump
Forty foxes jump left to right (only 20 right to left). The chi-square statistic is 4.2328. The p-value is .03965. The result is significant at p < .05.
Engrained in the western orientation of language proceeding rightward?
Figure and ground
4 instances of ground included, most often a green line suggesting a grassy patch
ZZZ. How do respondents indicate the laziness of the dog?
13 dogs explicitly dozing "zzz's"
Quick! How do respondents indicate the speed of movement?
21 cases of swooshes
3 cases of arrows