Word animals

Typography once more. This time in the shape of an animal. Graphic designer Dan Fleming uses in his series ‘Word Animals’ the alphabet letters to create the form of the animal represented.

Pretty cool.  Don’t  you think?

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Shape type: the letter shaping game

To shape the font, to form the misshaped character: this is the goal of Shape Type, an interactive typographic letter-shaping game, created by interactive designer, Mark MacKay.

Shape Type, made using HTML5, is a 10-stage game that asks from its users to form and fix the badly shaped, unfinished letters from specific typefaces, given the font names and fonts’ designers.

When the users have adjusted multiple bezier handles to get the shape of the character right., they can visually compare their effort with the original character and their score is a percentage based on the similarities.

via Design Taxi

See also:

• Can you name the typeface?
• See the object, guess the movie
• Strictly for philotypes

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Words have a life of their own

A is for Animation and B for Beautiful spelling-video. Playing with different techniques and material and using the Helvetica font,  Italy-based design studio n9ve created Alphabet 2, a video where each letter is animated, representing the meaning of the word itself.

Check out the video:

via Colossal

See also:

• Switch on the alphabet
• Etsy finds: Helvetica
• Can you name the typeface?
• For the love of fonts

Switch on the alphabet

We have seen all types of fonts and typefaces, but we haven’t seen the whole alphabet made out of television sets.UK designer Jack Archer creates a full typeface just by placing 15 television sets in a dot-matrix grid and switching them on and off in different arrangements, in order to form the letters of the alphabet.

via Quipsologies

See also:

• The fleeting moment of television
• Hand crafted fonts
• For the love of fonts

Can you name the typeface?

The boundaries have been crossed when the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) acquired last January 23 digital typefaces, which became part of its permanent Architecture and Design Collection. The boundaries between art, architecture and design. Fonts and typefaces challenges our perception of art and this quiz tests our knowledge on design.

So, can you match the 23 typefaces of MoMA’s permanent collection with the letters?

See the answers after the jump

Delicious fonts

A is for apple, B for bread and C for cantaloupe. Letters made out of the objects they represent. Designer Garret Steider creates hand crafted fonts carved into fruits and vegetables, shaping, thus, each letter of the Alphabet.

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Clever words

What happens when the Saussurian signifier and signified meet up in the form of a word? Beautiful typography.

Typeplay is a tumblr blog, which plays with words and their meanings creating typographically meaningful words and whose goal is to reach a million words.

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Is a picture worth a thousand words?

One of the most beautiful scenes in the motion picture history restructured. In words.  Juan Osborne used the lyrics of the’ Singing in the Rain’ song to outline Gene Kelly’s figure of in his memorable dance. Juan Osborne creates mostly portraits of directors, writers, actors, politicians by choosing very carefully the words to incorporate in each of his subjects. He has even used over 200,000 words for just one piece.

If it is too blurry to view it,  just get some distance and it will appear clear. Check out some of his amazing portraits in his personal blog.

See also:

• Color outside the line
• Cinematic pictographs
• Minimal design, maximal inspiration
• See the object, guess the movie

You type, they design

Everybody is obsessed with typography, lately. And it’s OK, the only problem being that not everyone has a design degree or money to spend on a designer. Now, there are designers who will turn your phrase into a typographical masterpiece for free.

Just head to the phraseology project, submit a word or phrase (less than 20 characters) and check back in a few days to find it fully designed in a typographical form.

See also:

• The lyrics on the wall
• Etsy finds: helvetica
• A brief history of title design

Hand crafted fonts

Are we typophiles or not? Check out some of the coolest typefaces, made from the most weird stuff, from fingerprints to raw meat.

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For the love of fonts

As typophiles, we love everything that has to do with fonts and modern typography.  And we just loved the floating version of the Akzidenz Grotesk typeface.

Playing with motion and typography, Cameron Zotter and Jinhwan Kim have created ‘elliptical forms’ of all the letters of the alphabet. By moving an iPod Touch in six rows and using long exposure photography, they have captured a floating image of each letter in a series of videos, which you can download, as the font itself.

Check out the process.

See the whole alphabet of the Akzidenz Grotesk typeface after the jump.

Etsy finds: helvetica

If you’ve ever met a designer you’ll know that they only worship one thing: helvetica,the sans-serif typeface that made history. It is of no surprise then that all those crafters at Etsy have created beautiful objects with it.

I ❤ helvetica etsy treasury list:

1. ASCII Heart Necklace by bekathwia
2. helvetica typography acrylic necklace (red) by plastique
3. Large Wood letter D by Hindsvik
4. Uppercase Scarf by TheLittleFactory
5. perpetual necklace – 8am by ofmatter
6. END WAR html by punkpatriot
7. Hellvetica Moleskine – Lined, Screenprinted by VictoriaGabrielle
8. Urban Throw Pillow – Style no17 – NYC – Pillow Cover Only by NestaHome
9. Helvetica for Typography Nerds – Choose your letter and color by Cupcakes and Mace
10. Doodle jewelry / Connect the numbers necklace in silver by tickette
11. Type Nerd 4-Color Process Card Pack of 6 by ShedLetterpress
12. You and Me – Ampersand pendant by melaniefavreau
13. Spell It Out for Me Clock by chromalab
14. Ctrl Alt Del – Black and White Typography Word Art – 8×10 by colorbee
15. TYPO-BAG: Helvetica by caratterino
16. Helvetica Hello Kraft/Ice Blue Note Cards by madebygood

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Read it elsewhere

Radiohead’s new album generates the latest web meme, and other news:

• Listen to a (huge) medley consisting of 5 sec samples of all number 1 singles in history, up to 1992 – BuzzFeed
• Good typography helps clarify everything, even Kanye West’s mind – brain pickings
• How to built your own Stonehenge with IKEA instructions – designboom
• Until recently MoMA featured only one typeface in its permanent collection: Helvetica. Now it acquired two dozens digital typefaces. See a slide show of the 11 most important ones – fastcodesign
• Dancing Thom is the new Sad Keanu – dancingthom
• The King of Limbs review: Are Radiohead the only band that makes so many fans turn quite so studiously patient and open-minded – vulture
• Poignant anti-Berlusconi, anti-censorship ad – Lost at E minor
• United States of America as movies – reddit