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I’ve always loved the visual shape of the letters. I also think I was just fascinated by the visual forms. I actually put my interest in the alphabet down to that early history. I would put myself to sleep thinking it just isn’t possible that the infinity of language could be contained within this set of twenty-six letters.

I just didn’t believe her and I would lie there at night trying to think of words that couldn’t be spelled with those letters. It only had majuscules, the capital letters, and my mother told me that all the words in the English language could be made out of those twenty-six letters. Johanna Drucker: I have a couple of anecdotes that I always tell, and I think that whether they’re mythic or true… We had alphabet wallpaper in the room that I slept in as a little kid, and I was completely fascinated by it. Sparkling and witty, she was a delight to talk with.ĭr. Drucker to be a rare blend of teacher, scientist, artist, technologist, and poet. Early in our project's development we encountered her book: The Alphabetic Labyrinth, which is a great resource for understanding the evolution of the Alphabet. Johanna Drucker was video taped in Washington D.C. Drucker is internationally known as a book artist and experimental, visual poet. Drucker has authored many books including: Theorizing Modernism, The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art, The Alphabetic Labyrinth, The Century of Artists' Books and Figuring the Word. She has been on the faculty of Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Harvard University. Johanna Drucker is currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA.