Sunday, February 1, 2009

Type Research

click on letters to interact with characters in different ways

about a billion ways to interact with type mostly based on the outline

threeDthreeLetters

really stupid, but along the same lines

particles of the alphabet

orthophone

user manipulated digital non-printable screen based flash driven coded unusable silly non-applicable and otherwise intangible typography is the type are of typography that interests me most. there aren't (as far as my research has shown me) many people contributing to typography in this way. tt seems to me that people create these interesting applications as a show of "look what i can do" and "look what we are capable of doing"; however, they don't have much inherent use or value do to the...i guess, extreme level of experimentation that is taking place. these links show the few i was able to find. i think i would like to attempt to make something along these lines, and try to make it so that it actually has some application can be used in some way. i don't maybe.

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