Fonts with just a little bit more
January 28th, 2012 | posted in: design
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Chartwell and Detroit
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that fonts aren’t just a collections of glyphs that just work one way. You might expect to find some fancy alternates or ligatures, but that’s often the extent of our expectations. I’ve come across two this week that reminded me how versatile fonts can be just by changing things up a tiny bit. It’s amazing what clever type designers can come up with!
Detroit is not only really beautiful, the different parts of the font family can be layered up and pieced together. It’s almost like typography lego. Chartwell almost looks like magic the way it makes charts out of ligatures. Both are pretty darn cool!
To see chartwell in action, even on the web, check out this video on CSS-Tricks.
If you know of any similarly system-like fonts, please share!
Intro to creative coding with Processing workshop
January 22nd, 2012 | posted in: design, events
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The 2009 Feltron Annual Report by Nicholas Felton and Process Compendium by Casey Reas. Two amazing projects made with Processing.
Calling all Pittsburgh design and artist types who want to learn code! The awesome folks at HackPittsburgh are letting me use their space to put on a workshop I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: Intro to creative coding with Processing.
Processing is used by designers and artists alike to create works ranging from algorithmic illustrations and interactive spaces to data visualizations, illustrated magazine spreads and a whole lot more.
This workshop is an introduction to Processing just for creative types! We’re going to spend the day learning the basics of programming by drawing, animating, and making simple interactive sketches with code.
The goal of the class is to give you the Processing foundation you need to start exploring on your own, and to inspire you with Processing work done by other artists and designers. We’ll have fun (and lunch) and there’s no need to have any prior experience writing code. Really, none.
If you’re a local artist or designer I’d love to see you there!
Intro to Creative Coding with Processing
Saturday, Feb 25th, 10am – 4pm
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