This amazing project created a font that is responsive to about any input imaginable. Test it out here.

While they aren’t the best presenters, these guys provide an extraordinary amount of information about an extremely interesting font. The font is almost more interesting that the typeface. The contextual automation blows my mind. This has the potential to spark some very interesting discussion about typography within the mainstream user-base.Watch the video here.
[via @typegirl]

Even in little ol’ Elmira, there is some great little spots for found typography. I’ve driven past this one enough times to remember to bring my camera. This would be a lovely piece to revive. Check out the whole set.<

The Creative Grab Bag is a great project by Ethan Bodnar in which creatives were assigned projects that were not their specialty. The idea is to get someone out of their comfort zone and see what a creative person can do when picking up a new type of task. In my case, my assignment was to visually represent all or any of the senses. A common theme I noticed from the commentary of others is that they found it was quite difficult deciding on a solution on a project with so few restrictions.

There are a number of great designers and big names that contributed to the Creative Grab Bag, including Armin Vit and Byrony Gomez-Palacio of UnderConsideration, Debbie Millman, Paul Sahre, Michael Surtees, Carin Goldberg just to name a few. Not to mention, ID29’s Doug Bartow. Although, I think my favorite was Ryan Cox’s entry. The project drew entries from all around the world.

When I found out the book was available, I couldn’t wait to see what the other creatives had done. So, I rushed out to my local Barnes&Noble and picked up a copy. You can also get it on Amazon.

An absolutely wonderful, simple article on the beauty of handwriting from Mowhawk’s new blog, Felt & Wire

Two typographers ( Pierre & Damien / plmd.me ) and a pro race pilot (Stef van Campenhoudt) collaborated to design a font with a car.
The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman. ( openframeworks.cc )

Download the font here: nl.toyota.be/iqfont

More pictures here: flickr.com/photos/40243214@N05/sets/72157621047564023/
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Type Nerds rejoice. We finally have footage.

Just yesterday, I had a great trip and got to visit Coney Island along the way. While I was there, I notice some wonderful lettering that I just had to share with you.

It’s been a while, but in the time that I’ve been type nerding it up in the background, I’ve run across some gems by Paul Lloyd. His work seems to be a very academic approach to digitizing old fonts including several victorian and blackletter typefaces.