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 […]

With Pop-Up Store, Party, and … Rectangles, vvvv Celebrates 10 Years of Visual Power [Gallery]

It’s hard to believe – especially as the software remains at the bleeding edge of what you can accomplish with a GPU – but visual programming environment vvvv is now one decade old. It’s one of a handful of tools that has powered the most eye-popping projects of those years, and so it’s little surprise […]

Peter Kirn - December 19, 2012

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

Gallery opening in Berlin, top (photo: Ken Buslay); Klasien among participants from some 13 cities who contributed to the font (photo: Create Digital Motion). With an image in mind of a piece of metal or wood, there’s nothing quite more static in our Imagine typefaces, and your mind probably conjures an image of a piece […]

Peter Kirn - February 20, 2012

Modulating Type with Synthesizer Knobs: Meek FM, Revisited

Peter Kirn - January 25, 2012

Processing Beats Keyframing: TypeStar Karaoke Machine Generates Kinetic Lyrics

Jaymis Loveday - November 29, 2009

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

Peter Kirn - July 16, 2009

Type in Motion: Helvetica, the Movie

Peter Kirn - May 1, 2007

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