iQ Agility Font
From todayandtomorrow
The Belgian advertising agency Happiness Brussels asked Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta of pleaseletmedesign to create a typeface with a Toyota iQ.
They collaborated with Stef van Campenhoudt, a pro race pilot, who had to drive all the characters with the iQ.
Zach Lieberman wrote a custom software to track the movements of the car and translate them into single characters.
Font can be downloaded here.
[I love this process, basing something so usually regimented on the imperfect actions of a human, creating wonderful letterforms.]
And it’s the same Zach Lieberman who has now joined this project…
Rhonda
Amit Pitaru developed this amazing piece of software around 2003. Around that time he was collaborating with James Paterson, their project was called InsertSilince.
In this video you can see James drawing using Rhonda with his unique style.
[It reminds me of the Alexander Calder exhibition we saw in the Pompidou Centre, wire sculptures of extraordinary depth.]
So it’s very nice to hear that the development of Rhonda will continue with the help of Zach Lieberman (openFrameworks) and Zach Gage (synthpond).
And openFrameworks is Zach Lieberman.
Open Frameworks
“Can artists make tools at the same time as they make their own artwork”
OpenFrameworks is a creative commons library, heading for online access, but the work that it has already helped with is amazing!
Including a UVA project!
