Exercise: Computational typography
Create an interactive type experience. Experiment with animated and interactive approaches to typography, applying computational strategies for animation.Tell a story or make the user create their own story.
Work in groups. Make the result printable. The challenge is to make a static object become alive, transform and move over time. Key goal: Engage - interact - surprise.
Examples: Typographic animation, text scrollers, dynamic letters, emotional typography, automatic layouts, type as pattern, randomized fonts.
Deadline: Presentation Thursday 27.11.
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Hi Marius,
Thanks for your posts, they are really informative and stimulating. Inspired by your exercise proposal, I’ve written my weekly processing game at The Croopier on modular typography:
Playful Modern Types
Regards,
a.
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