Dona Nobis Pacem
“Give Us Peace”
I had
been watching the M*A*S*H Christmas episode where the
entire 4077th staff sang this song in rondel form... in a
cappella (Season 7 - Episode “Dear
Sis”).
The result was this design for my 2004 Christmas Greeting.
It features a dove of peace graphic that becomes a part of
the capital ‘D.’ It loosely illustrates the Gestalt Theory
of Perception, specifically its Principle of Closure: that
an image can be mentally completed though part of the
visual information is missing.
The style of calligraphy used is based on the Batarde
hand.