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carwriting: designers track car’s movements to make iq font

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Graphic designers Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta, known collectively as pleaseletmedesign,  teamed up with professional race car driver Stef van Campenhoudt to…create a font. But hey, if you were given the choice between sitting in front of a computer all day and watching a pro racer trace Qs and Zs to make a font, you’d…

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July 22nd, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

typographic synthesizer makes fonts like music

Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer

This unconventional design tool provides a unique way to create new typefaces. Working somewhat like an analog music synthesizer, knobs and button pushes influence the shape of your font characters.

Designed by Rob Meek and Frank Müller, the Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer uses a custom controller device along with special software to allow manipulation of…

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February 22nd, 2008 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design interactive strange + wonderful

zetalink nixie tube clocks offer funky fonts

Zeta Nixie Clock Example

This wouldn’t be the first Nixie tube clock I’ve ever seen, but it sure offers some different display options than the typical numeric display they usually feature. Raymond Weisling’s GeekKlok not only can display time using traditional digits, it offers custom “fonts” which can tell time using special characters.

The GeekKlok comes in kit form,…

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December 11th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design retro timepieces

typography + google maps = geogreeting

Geogreeting Google Maps Typography

In a world full of Google Maps mash-ups, it’s always fun to stumble across one that is truly different. The guys over at geogreeting.com have done just that.

Geogreeting takes carefully selected Google satellite images of buildings and landmarks that happen to look like letters of the alphabet, and creates custom typography from them. You…

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November 15th, 2006 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design just plain fun