prosthetic knowledge
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Infinite Type Trooper
Interactive installation displays animated type from a vintage keyboard - video embedded below:
Infinite Type Trooper from lettersaremyfriends on Vimeo.
From Letters Are My Friends in Berlin comes an installation that enables you to experience their animated and generated Buchstabengewitter Typeface with a haptic tactile interface - an old Rheinmetall Typewriter from the 1920s. We used the Arduino based USB Typewriter Kit by Jack Zylkin to convert this machine into an USB keyboard and give it a long deserved upgrade after almost a century. The keys are send to a PC that is running the Buchstabengewitter vvvv-patch that animates the glyphs. We gonna use it as a realtime comment tool for talks and events.
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90º - Typography Book
Handmade book by features typographic alphabet with letters presented in 3D using thread and stitching:
Kąt 90 stopni (90 degrees) is a book presenting a font style bearing the same name, designed in such a way that each of its letters can be displayed in a three-dimensional space. The letters are made of a string threaded through two sheets of paper perpendicular to each other. All twenty-six letters of the English alphabet have been created using this font style and put together to create this one-off book design.
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Alphatecture - Small Flickr Set combining Typography + kiriorigami
The kiriorigami work by elod beregszaszi is really worth checking out also
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You Are What You Bleed - A History of Japanese Bloodtyping (infographic)
I’m AB positive … (click on image for full size)
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Tadao 3d Type
Typography design based on the architecture of Tadao Ando. I picked out my favourite buildings as a basis for developing some expressive letter forms. Included are : Chikatsu Asuka historical museum / Water temple / Naoshima contemporary art museum annexe.
More photos here
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KID 3 (via haydiroket)
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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
— Toni Morrison
Illustration: Adrian Piper
Concrete Infinity Square, typescript page workvia mianoti
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www1.moshi-moshi.jp/portfolio (via dodonpa / gorg)
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Sound and television by Rosa Menkman
25/05
on tv-tv television, Denmark.
www.tv-tv.dk/soundandtelevision/Check out the website for the net art experience
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(via shriyashriyashriya)
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Douglas Engelbart : The Mother of All Demos (via bigkif)
An important part of computer technology history:
On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962. The public presentation was a session in the of the Fall Joint Computer Conference held at the Convention Center in San Francisco, and it was attended by about 1,000 computer professionals. This was the public debut of the computer mouse. But the mouse was only one of many innovations demonstrated that day, including hypertext, object addressing and dynamic file linking, as well as shared-screen collaboration involving two persons at different sites communicating over a network with audio and video interface.
The presentation is a bit slow and long (90 minutes), but this is the first time technology such as the mouse, the computer file, video conferencing, online collaboration, and hypertext were introduced publicly …. in 1968!
There are nine parts to the above YouTube playlist, but if you would prefer a condensed, visual overview ,there is this 5 minute video by SmeagolStudios
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… or how one set of icons were ripped-off by another
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(via CTRLC)
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Helvetica - The Movie (full version on Vimeo)
Helvetica is a feature-length independent film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which recently celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica has been shown at over 200 film festivals, museums, design conferences, and cinemas worldwide, and is now available on DVD.
