Words as Shapes

What interests me most about type is the fact that words and letters are shapes. We see letters, arranged properly they form words, and those words connect us to ideas, but to me, they always remain shapes, and those shapes create relationships. In arranging type I often think of the letters and words as objects or people, that through their interaction create meaning. Not just in their immediate interpretation as words and ideas, but through the ways in which the shapes themselves interact.