http://www.metafilter.com/tags/Typotheque Posts tagged with 'Typotheque' at MetaFilter. Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:11:19 -0800 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:11:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/105384/Typeface%2Dbased%2Don%2Dsculpture%2Dbecomes%2Dmotorized%2Dsculpture <a href="http://www.typotheque.com/blog/acp_donor_wheel">Typeface based on sculpture becomes motorized sculpture.</a> The (European) typeface <a href="http://www.typotheque.com/fonts/jigsaw/about/design_concept" title="‘Jigsaw is a geometrical sans serif font family with a nearly monolinear stroke width’">Jigsaw</a>, “which was inspired by sculpture,” finds a use in typesetting the names of donors to a (U.S.) regional arts council. “A motorized disk contains approximately 2,000 names.... Pushing an initial letter on the control panel allows the viewer to find a particular name. The disk rotates and stops at the requested letter and displays all the names corresponding to the requested letter by backlighting them with white LEDs.” (<a href="http://www.joshuakirsch.com/acp.html" title="By the artist, Joshua Kirsch">Gallery</a>; <a href="http://vimeo.com/6888238" title="ACP Donor Wheel">Vimeo video</a>.) Cf. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/05/16/110516ta_talk_paumgarten?printable=true" title="‘New Yorker’: The names">arranging the names on the 9/11 memorial</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.105384 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 10:11:19 -0800 fonts jigsawfont JoshuaKirsch type typography Typotheque joeclark