Comments on: Words Fail Me

Words Fail Me

wendell — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:29:49 -0800

RoboType, a way to make art with letters without forming actual words or sentences...

By: wendell

wendell — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:31:30 -0800

example:

By: Nelson

Nelson — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:37:45 -0800

This application is very nicely executed.

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:13:56 -0800

I'm in love! robots + typography = *swoon*

By: AlexReynolds

AlexReynolds — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:17:13 -0800

Emigre's art from typography.

By: shortfuse

shortfuse — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:40:30 -0800

It is well-executed. It feels like a nice, simple shell on top of Flash - like a cool demo for Flash. If I could make a feature wish, I'd like them to add the time dimension and turn it into a very simple animation tool. Once you've mashed up the type like that, the letters just beg to dance. Also see Nikita Pashenkov's Alphabot. Check out the screenshots and the videos. I imagine Nelson has seen this before - it's from ACG.

By: shortfuse

shortfuse — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:43:37 -0800

Forgot to note: the Alphabot link was primarily for Robot Johnny. It's what I thought of when you said "robots + typography".

By: carter

carter — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:48:15 -0800

Cool, thanks wendell!

By: billpena

billpena — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:14:23 -0800

Very Spanish. Lots of poetry in the Ultraist and other modernist movements in Spain in the first half of the 20th century played around with this, and, well, this is the same 75 years later. Gosh I miss Barcelona ...

By: shortfuse

shortfuse — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:19:51 -0800

billpena - What's in Barcelona that's related to this post? I was half-planning to attend this year's Sonar if the lineup were good. I'm curious if there's anything to see in Barcelona that relates to type experiments. Museums? Libraries?

By: bdave

bdave — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:07:36 -0800

Oooh. Neato. Thanks.

By: killdevil

killdevil — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:23:19 -0800

This held my interest for more than five minutes... nearly a record. Thanks!

By: daninnj

daninnj — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:13:21 -0800

This is fun! Thanks wendell!

By: superfem

superfem — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:50:25 -0800

Wow! If only I had this during last semester's graphic design course. Our assignment was to create a black/white graphic with letterforms. Must make note to alert future students of that course. Some of these designs are insanely well-constructed.