This past week has seen a very agreeable mini-boom in sales of our tabletop game Ulus: Legends of the Nomads, but I was a bit surprised that nobody had ordered our Ulus travel mugs. Today I realized–I’d forgotten to put them up on our storefront! So here is what the mugs look like (they depict […]
Last weekend, I drove down to the New York metro area to introduce Ulus to the gaming community and to introduce some of the Ulus design team to each other. It was a wonderful trip, and the highpoint was a meeting on Sunday on the Rutgers University campus with Togochog Enghebatu, the director of the […]
If you’ve been following this blog or reading the Atlas of Endangered Alphabets, you’ll be well aware of the Adinkra symbols of Ghana. Nearby, though, there is another and much less well-known set of symbols. Darius Adjong has been researching them for a guest column for the Endangered Alphabets. He writes: Like the Adinkra symbols […]
2021 has been a bizarrely contradictory one for the Endangered Alphabets. On the one hand, it has been our most ambitious and successful year of our 11-year life. Highlights include: * the creation of Ulus: Legends of the Nomads, an entirely original tabletop game designed to promote traditional Mongolian culture, language, and calligraphy that is […]
