Friday, February 5, 2010

Ten questions about making type

1. How can you make a font that disappears over time?
2. How would you make a font that becomes more readable over time?
3. How do you make a font that links together like a puzzle?
4. What would it take to make a font that the viewer would have to build?
5. How could you make a font that could only be sung?
6. How could you make a font that when you built it and put the letters in the right order it rewarded you?
7. What would make a font more readable only when it went round in circles?
8. How could you make a typographic accent (country)?
9. How can you make a font that only appears in shadow?
10. How can you make a font out of objects that only appear on the computer screen?

Or here are some others:

1. What would give type a sense of movement, so when you look at it you actually feel like you're moving?
2. How could you read a font one way, turn it through a number of degrees and it say something else?
3. Is it possible to make a font out of something natural that is very complex, like a snowflake for example?

3 comments:

  1. Tom,

    Check out this video:
    http://www.ted.com/talks/al_seckel_says_our_brains_are_mis_wired.html

    Josh

    ReplyDelete
  2. Here's the Priori Acute typeface by Emigre that looks like Escher.
    http://www.emigre.com/EF.php?fid=214

    Josh

    ReplyDelete
  3. That's a great video and a really nice typeface! Thanks for the link.

    ReplyDelete