Here’s a tedx video of Andrew Byrom, who makes awesome interdisciplinary typography:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/tedxucla.org\/2011\/05\/12\/andrew-byrom-if-h-is-a-chair-mapping-new-forms-in-typography-through-experimentation-collaboration-and-a-shifting-view-point\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>accessed January 31, 2012.<\/p>\n Notes while watching the video: What’s neat here is the back and forth he has with the manufacturer \u2014 an old school relationship to make new form. Breaking into other disciplines and bending them to suit his needs \u2014 persisting until the neon guy is hooked and wants to make his complicated forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a tedx video of Andrew Byrom, who makes awesome interdisciplinary typography: http:\/\/tedxucla.org\/2011\/05\/12\/andrew-byrom-if-h-is-a-chair-mapping-new-forms-in-typography-through-experimentation-collaboration-and-a-shifting-view-point\/\u00a0accessed January 31, 2012. Notes while watching the video: Face recognition Color blind test Typeface recognition \u2014 type made of drinking straws seeing letters everywhere \u2014 in bandaids, … Continue reading
\nFace recognition
\nColor blind test
\nTypeface recognition \u2014 type made of drinking straws
\nseeing letters everywhere \u2014 in bandaids, searching out typographic forms, then digitizing them; finding something in 3d and bringing it back into flatness.
\n“if h is a chair, what do the other letters look like?”
\nHis thinking process leads him to collaborations. He envisions physical form for his letters, such as metal furniture, neon, kites, rails, blinds…and seeks out the craftsmen\/factories to make his visions come alive. Sometimes he has a 3d idea, such as flipping blinds, and then envisions the typographic form to go with it.<\/p>\n