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Open Your Ears, Expand Your Mind

July is National Foreign Language Month!

Wing Gig Fong's print presents a character for "generosity" in a fluid and expressive form of Chinese script. The lively white lines suspended on a field of crimson create a sense of balanced motion. Beautiful typographic design can be appreciated even if you can't read the language!

Pictured: Wing Gig Fong, born 1922, "He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much."—Lao-Tzu, 6th century B.C. Chinese moralist and mystic, on Generosity. From the series "Great Ideas", 1958, serigraph on paperboard mounted on board, 22 1/2 x 17 3/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Container Corporation of America.