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FontStruct


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.

TypeNeu


TypeNeu is a social platform and source of inspiration for all you typophiles out there. We report on the past, present and the future of typographic culture. Typophile is a common diagnosis, and yes this is the cure.

Go and take a look! They we’re kind enough to put my feed on their sidebar. Thanks guys :)

Css type

Web Safe Typography on Screen for Pixel Perfectionist.
Added to the Directory in Tools and Resources.

Design&Typo - The site

Wow… what a great resource. Peter Gabor, from design et typo blog (FR), has put together a nice gallery collection, categorized by author or theme, that is a pleasure to browse. Go take a look at the Design&Typo Site.

Some examples:

Spiekermann interview

Nice interview over at ideiasonideias.

Thinking for a living


The Thinking for a Living series is an ever-growing platform dedicated to the concept of open source design education.
Lots of resources…Check out the typography section.

The Art of the Grid


Nice idea:

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Whether we admit it or not, grids are an essential part of our life. Without grids, our lives would be messier, uglier, and more confusing places to live in. The Art of the Grid products will keep your life in order! Write your shopping lists, practice your layouts, and keep
your books and magazines on the shelves of grids that changed the history of design.

Source: Ace Jet 170

Snoil - A Physical Display Based on Ferrofluid


Snoil, a sensitive skin of oil, is a great interactive piece by Martin Frey.

Ferrofluid is a liquid that reacts to magnetism. It is attracted by magnets, pretty similar to iron. This can lead to areas where the liquid partly resists to gravitation when a magnet approaches. Thereby a small bump is formed close to the loadstone. This behavior is enabled by magnetic nano-particles that are suspended in a carrier fluid. Normally the particles are coated with a surfactant to prevent their agglomeration. This results in stable ferrofluid dispersions.

Snake + Oil = SnOil

There are different reasons, why an interesting application for the ferrofluid-display is based on the game Snake: the food pieces are shaped out of the surrounding fluid and are instantly converted to the snakes body after consumption. So the growth in length of the snakes tail comes along with a real swelling volume of the collected fluid. The snake on the screen is steered by a joystick or a keyboard whereas the input interface of SnOil relies on a straighter action: The player holds the whole ferrofluid-basin in his hands and controls the flow direction of the snake by slightly tilting in the according direction. The controller measures this by tilt-sensors.

See the video here.

Source: Core77

Text, space and time

Chronotext is a growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time. By Ariel Marka, a designer and programmer based in Tel-Aviv.

Espacios Publicitarios - Ad Space


There´s a very nice gallery at Flickr showing some ads from medical/pharmaceutical magazines “Clínica Rural” and “Glosa” from the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s.

Source: David Airey

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