Typography
Typorganism
A Flash site exploring some interesting typography projects. It's more
of an "experience" site than an "information" site.
It encourages you to participate and interact with the projects (hint:
if nothing is happening, try typing in some letters).
Counterspace
An excellent, clean, and well designed site that offers articles on anatomy,
the history of type, a glossary, and more. Unobtrusive and well integrated
Flash movies and rollover GIFs illustrate many of the points. The "timeline"
item, which shows a history of mark-making, is particularly interesting.
A
brief history of type
A fairly detailed history of the development of type, from Gutenberg to
Grunge, by Thomas W. Phinney.
Alphabet
Soup
A project which "attempts to determine a number of things about the
shapes of letters in several different writing systems." Particularly
interesting is the fact that the letters are generated by a computer program,
which even kerns the letters.
The Elephant's
Memory
A pictorial language that attempts to communicate ideas in a more universal
fashion. A simple, graphical "alphabet" of icons combine to
create visual sentences that are sometimes bizarre and often striking.
Apple has a much more
detailed article.
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