Archive of Menial Things is a typographic practice intent on archiving daily, mundane conversations. Nu explores the textual record as a selective tool of remembering using three basic tools; letters, lines, and ornaments.
Letters form the crux of the archive, they are the tool of denoting information. Lines are the tool of denoting relation, directing the text towards structure. Ornaments are the metaphorical tool of denoting imprecision, directing the text towards whimsy and looseness.
A Visual Dictionary of Conversations is a publication within that practice, archiving conversations collected during four casual events and organising extracts as sixteen different things across sixteen spreads. Extending it are two stones. One fully carved stone, organising the conversation as monument, and a piece of lettering on another that will be chipped away at over time, organising the conversation as a practice.
