Salon Artificum

Salon is basically like a school science fair: you get to display and infodump your particular interest(s).

Mine was "Anyone Can Scribe, Including You, You Can't Change My Mind."

I made a bunch of scribal trading cards of simple, funky, and/or geometric art from across the world before the 17th century.  There were tips for hesitant calligraphers: calligrams/micrography, speech bubbles, invented languages, less than perfect calligraphers, even transliteration.

99% (a few escaped without) had the source on the back, my name, this blog, and a Bob Ross quote and I gave them away at the end of the event.

I should have included a caveat that the potential scribe had to be able to hold a pen and perceive 2 dimensional media because one friend challenged me with hand tremors.  I pointed out the Tremulous Hand of Worcester and even then WORDSMITHING IS STILL SCRIBAL!

The transliterated languages are Old Georgian (the grey giant as I've been calling him top centre), Amharic (lower left), and runes just to the right of that.  They're Bob Ross quotes.  The runic circle says "If you can read this, you're a nerd.  SCA love."