Great work from Synoptic Office.
The physical form of language is a record of collective memory.
In this monotype typeface, the height of the letterforms is determined by how often a letter is used. This typeface maps the rhythmic ebb and flow of English.
Each letter sits in a 6 x 6 inch square, allowing for any combination of letters to run seamlessly both vertically and horizontally.
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Device Studio is a Barcelona based audiovisual design studio, founded in 2008.
Marcelo wrote us an email presenting their interesting type experiments:
We are a multidisciplinary creative hub focused on new media platforms and motion
graphics, offering direction and art direction from concept to delivery.We love to experiment, work and combine different creative techniques
and solutions such as physical installations,
space interventions, electronics, experimental coding,
street art and nasty visual outputs.
Check out their site: www.devicers.com
Read MoreTypeStar is a lyric visualizer created by Scott Garner that renders lyrics of a song in realtime according to a number of preset visualization schemes.
Application is available as Mac, Windows and Linux download.
(via creativeapplications.net)
Michael Lebovitz from Big Spaceship made a great work with user interaction and typography.
Using a controller, Michael made possible to elongate or widen the Laika typeface. The other option was trough user position and reflecting that position in changes to the Sputnik typeface.
Check the videos from PSFK
FontShop brings you FontStruct, a free font building tool:
FontStruct lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks.
Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.
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Tomás Valle, from Barcelona, just send us this great video.
From the lenticular cover that changes with the angle of your hands, all the way to the Z, ABC-3D is as much a work of art as it is a pop-up book. Each of the 26 dimensional letters that move and change before your eyes is a treat. C turns into D with a snap. M stands at attention. X becomes Y with a flick of the wrist. And then there’s U… Boldly conceived and brilliantly executed with a striking black, red, and white palette, this is a book that readers and art lovers of all ages will treasure for years to come.
MARION BATAILLE is graphic and book designer who lives in Paris. This is just a hand-made mock-up of the actual book which publishes in Oct. 2008.
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Kromofons is an alphabet, created by Florida physician Lee Freedman. The idea is that each letter of the alphabet corresponds to a color, allowing messages to be embedded in color images.
For 35 years, between stints as a doctor, a real estate agent and a pizza maker at the Woodstock concert in 1994, Freedman has been working on Kromofons–an innovative alphabet in which the 26 English letters are represented solely by individual colors–waiting for technology to catch up with him.
And now, thanks to the Internet, the ubiquity of color monitors, Microsoft Word plug-ins and his being able to launch a Kromofons-based e-mail system, Freedman thinks he is finally ready.
Imagine getting an e-mail whose text is not the familiar black letters on a white background, but instead a series of colored rectangles.
That’s how Kmail, the Kromofons e-mail system, works. Using a translation key, Kmail recipients can piece together what a message says, letter by letter, word by word.
Continue reading the article over at C|NET.
The above image reads typeforyou blog. 
Tobias battenberg, from Germany, made a nice experiment with video projections in several buildings and structures in the city, about the font “akzidenz grotesk”.
Akzidenz grotesk is known as a font that tolerates a lot, that holds out a lot – my plan was to get a proof by the font herself. the font demonstrated her character at its best.
Very nice, take a look.
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