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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Comic Sans Must Die
Part typographic generative degradation coding project, part wishful thinking, presented in Tumblr format by Antonio Roberts:
Love it or hate it, Comic Sans is one of the most popular fonts in the world.
Vincent Connare designed the font for Microsoft in 1995. He described it is best being used for “new computer users and families with children”. Despite this it has constantly been misused and can be seen everywhere from school letters, e-mails from government officials and even in documents about the discovery of the Higgs Boson.
Since it was unleashed on the world there have been multiple calls by designers for the font to be abolished completely, most famously by the Ban Comic Sans website.
Comic Sans Must Die is a project that satisfies every designer’s dream: to see Comic Sans die a slow and painful death. Every day the individual glyphs of Comic Sans will have their demise displayed for all to see.
Comic Sans Must Die is a project conceived by Antonio Roberts with code contributions from Richard Clifford.
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Typode
A simple font created by Santiago Ortiz with co-ordinates for creative coding effects and manipulation.
The demo works in your browser, which you can try here
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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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Tapewriter
Typography / street art project by Autobahn from 2008 creates lettering to be made specifically using duct-tape:
Tapewriter is a font based upon the grid of fences. It’s a form of graffiti that makes optimal use of its carrier. Tapewriter is for everyone in posession of an opinion and the urge to express it in public with a roll of tape.
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FatFont
Specifically designed for decimal numbers whose boldness corresponds with it’s value, for use in data visualization:
The FatFonts technique is based on a new type of numeric typeface designed for visualization purposes that bridge the gap between numeric and visual representations. FatFonts are based on Arabic numerals but, unlike regular numeric typefaces, the amount of ink (dark pixels) used for each digit is proportional to its quantitative value. This enables accurate reading of the numerical data while preserving an overall visual context.
Fatfonts are designed so that the amount of dark pixels in a numeral character is proportional to the number it represents … This proportionality of ink is the main property of FatFonts. It allows us to create images of data where you can read the numbers, and represent tables that can be read as images.
You can find out more about the project here
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Origami Font by Guan Pucha
Chinese characters constructed with folding paper:
Character and paper, paper and character.
Through the special method of paper folding to make the covert from paper to character, this is feasible for the Chinese character that with long history and complicated. -
Futile Devices - Kickers
Animated typography by Nicolas Ménard:
Series of 6 five seconds kickers made in Denis Dulude’s class at UQAM.
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Direction, animation & sound design by Nicolas MénardMore examples, including a video, can be found here
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Alphabet commissioned by Wallpaper for their Sex and Art issue.
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Typ by Ahmed Sabbagh
A collection of experimental Arabic typography.
Much more can be found at the designer’s Behance Network page here
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Generative Typography Experiments by Reza Ali
Using the Processing programming language, Reza has been testing code to manipulate and alter type through various means:
Over the past year I worked on several client projects and got a fulltime job (which I am no longer at), which kept me pretty busy. When I did get some time, I ended up experimenting with typography, color, simulations (particles, springs, and fluid), audio-input and simple rule based systems. These images are the results of half a year or so of coding, tinkering, tweaking, manipulating, and massaging algorithms for generative typography. Read more about these images and how these were created.After briefly experimenting with typography and dynamic systems in Nov. 2010, I started to experiment with color after being inspired by Paul Smith’s vibrant color palette. I believe in minimalism, and for a long time I used only monochromatic color palettes. I still believe in minimalism, but utilize color to make things pop and to give them a playful personality.
The full set of examples can be found at Reza’s blog here
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The Museum For African Art (via Original Champions Of Design)
New museum developed in New York, with complimentary rebranding, including a specifically designed new font, AfriSans:
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Chevrolet Speedometer Design -Design evolution from 1941 to 2011 (via Christian Annyas)
What is maybe something considered inconsequential, it is interesting to see the chronological differences in design and typography for something that is ubiquitous in every car:
2011 marks the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet. During these 100 years the company developed over a hundred different types of cars, vans and trucks. All of those cars, vans and trucks have something in common: they all contain speedometers.
Speedometers are those kind of items you look at thousands of times during your live, without ever really noticing. You notice the speed, not the meter. And if you do notice the meter chances are you don’t realize someone actually designed it. The company probably even did some research beforehand. Research regarding the readability of typefaces, the right size of the numbers and the space between them.
The design of speedometers hasn’t changed much over the decades. Recently, however, there’s a trend towards digital meters. They’re probably supposed to look fresh and new, but due to the use of stopwatch-like (the digital stopwatch was invented in 1971) typefaces they actually look extremely primitive and dated.The full set of examples can be found here
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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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TITLE SCREAM (via Digital Tools)
A website in grid-format that celebrates the graphics and typography of 8-Bit and 16-Bit Games - includes many anigifs as well (some of the above graphics may only appear animated once you have clicked on them).
