Estamos acostumbrados a un bombardeo de fuentes (tipografías). Detrás de ellas, hay verdaderos maestros del diseño. No es tan fácil que una tipografía entera -con sus muchos caracteres y símbolos- sea limpia y concuerde perfectamente, sin ningún tipo de distorsiones. Dave Cohen es uno de esos virtuosos de las formas (es escultor también). Suyas son estas tipografías tan chulas:
Dave Cohen (AKA SQUID) is one of the premier designer/sculptors in the weird and wonderful world of TIKI. Since 1999, SQUID has been surfing atop the Tiki revival wave, creating traditional and way-out Tiki mugs as well as jewelry and ephemera. He also works in collaboration with other top-notch artists such as SHAG, Von Franco, Derek Yaniger, The Pizz and Gary baseman to drag their 2-D madness into the 3-D world kickin' and screamin'! Now SQUID has put his natural supply of ink to good use designing fonts that represent not only his personal style and influences, but complement the entire lowbrow, googie, and kitschy scene that has embraced his work to date.
iQ Font es un tipo de letra creada gracias a los movimientos de un coche monitorizados a través de un sofware personalizado por Zachary Lieberman.
Los tipógrafos (Pierre & Damien) y un piloto de carreras (Stef van Campenhoudt) también han puesto su granito de arena en esta acción. (marketing alternativo)
"Toyota's iQ Font campaign from Belgium has won the Grand Prix for Design at Cannes International Advertising Festival. The campaign provided a downloadable font that demonstrated the unique agility and perfect control of the iQ. Typographers Pierre and Damien, from Pleaseletmedesign, and interactive artist Zachary Lieberman worked with pro racer Stef van Campenhoudt to design a font using the iQ. The making-of video, distributed on Vimeo, pointed to Toyota's website and invited viewers to download their free copy of the font and book for a test drive. A great way to reach the target audience, 18-35 year old urban people in communities that fit the iQ's core values: design, technology and automotive.
The making of video was featured on over 6000 influential design, technology and automotive blogs worldwide. The stunt also received offline media attention in leading design and technology magazines all over the world. It was even broadcasted at the Typophile festival in New York, and at ‘Centre Pompidou', the museum for modern art at Paris. The iQ Font was downloaded over 24000 times from the Toyota website. All this with 0 euro media budget.
The IQ Font campaign was developed at Happiness Brussels by creative manager Karen Corrigan, creative manager/creative director Gregory Titeca, account director Pascal Kemajou, creative Tom Galle and Ramin Afshar, head of art Cecilia Azcarate Isturiz.
Ahora te lo facilitan bastante en esta web: What Font is. En tres pasos te van a decir de qué fuente (tipografía) se puede tratar. Y, si quieres, también te llevan a la pág. donde la puedes descargar o comprar.
Lo he probado. No es exacto exacto, pero se aproxima bien. Puede ser útil en alguna ocasión.
Ya hablamos de ellos aquí. Los bailarines de la "Pilobolus Dance Theatre" son fantásticos. Ahora descubro en Microsiervos este nuevo trabajo de ellos. Bellas formas y contorsionismo de la A a la Z, fotografiados por John Kane.
Dave Cohen (AKA SQUID) is one of the premier designer/sculptors in the weird and wonderful world of TIKI. Since 1999, SQUID has been surfing atop the Tiki revival wave, creating traditional and way-out Tiki mugs as well as jewelry and ephemera. He also works in collaboration with other top-notch artists such as SHAG, Von Franco, Derek Yaniger, The Pizz and Gary baseman to drag their 2-D madness into the 3-D world kickin' and screamin'! Now SQUID has put his natural supply of ink to good use designing fonts that represent not only his personal style and influences, but complement the entire lowbrow, googie, and kitschy scene that has embraced his work to date.
Los tipógrafos (Pierre & Damien) y un piloto de carreras (Stef van Campenhoudt) también han puesto su granito de arena en esta acción. (
