The Prince symbol has been salvaged from a 1993 floppy disk

Prince was way ahead of non-fungible tokens – with a symbol that was intended to make life a pain-in-the-a** for the record label. (Non-f***able totem?) And now Anil Dash and Limor Fried/Adafruit have brought back that image from a floppy.

Fonts for a cause: SoliType gives you designer letters to support meals in the Balkans

Your next design project or album cover can pick up trendy letters from independent designers – all while helping get meals to those in need.

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2021

Pattern and Design: A 2-Day Festival Turns Vintage Type into Musical Scores

It’s time to reinvent the graphical score. With musical practice more international, more broad and varied than ever, and electronics in the mix, conventional notational idioms just aren’t enough. For curator and prolific electronic producer Hanno Leichtmann, the starting point was a collection of vintage Letraset and Letratone type, as pictured above. Leichtmann, a graphic […]

- April 11, 2014

A Kinetic, Experimental Typeface Made by Running Around Cities with GPS

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2012

Fonts Made by Motion of a Car, as Designers, Race Driver Meet

Peter Kirn - July 16, 2009

Motion from Type: A Treasure Trove of Inspiration on Vimeo

Peter Kirn - July 16, 2009

MeekFM Synthesizes Synesthetic Typography, Sound

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2008

Illuminating Lettering as Digital Process, in Elegant, Open-Source Mac NodeBox

Peter Kirn - May 10, 2007

Type in Motion: Helvetica, the Movie

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2007

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