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by Samia @ 8:41 am 2 February 2011

Laika Font – interactive kinectic type

I love how this piece explores new ways of creating type, even though it is limited in its mapping of movements in how it translates gestures to font characteristics. It’s a perfect next step in terms of typography. The first faces of moveable type were based on the movements of hand written script. It is only very recently that grotesque, humanist, geometric fonts have becoming conventionally acceptable, as their lack of relationship to the human hand were originally found unpleasant. The concept of allowing human, physical interaction in a different way to inform the creation of font characteristic could be quite inventive and beautiful. It could meld strong computation with physical markmaking of the human body — what if you could dance a typeface, or a yoga position, or your pet ferret.

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