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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

kern: the game for typography nerds

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If you prefer to call capital letters “majuscules,” you probably aren’t the type to shy away from words like kerning and ligature, either. And that’s okay, because there are games that cater even to you typography nerds, or at least game, singular: KERN, available now from the Apple AppStore.

KERN is a little like Tetris, except it’s…

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February 17th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: strange + wonderful technology video games

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

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