Font design is about to get a huge upgrade. Traditionally, given the same font, the letter ‘A’ looks identical everywhere.
How about a smart & magical font that draws ‘A’ differently based on the semantic meaning of the word? Smells like Stable Diffusion?
Deep dive with me: 🧵
the danny breakdown - I find it helpful to stick loosely to a process so I don't spend a lot of time dilly dallyin'! hopefully this can be useful to someone 🤠
Thinking about Charlie the goat, who played Black Phillip in The Witch, and how handsome he is and how he was such a devoted method actor (read: an asshole) on set that now he is not allowed to work in show business and lives on a farm in North Carolina. We love you, king.
I've been teaching at
@NEW3DGE
for just over a week now, on a 2 week course. Here are some of my demos from week 1, on process, local colour and material, and mood. The students have been amazing!
the year is 2034: you just watched another famous dead actor deepfaked performance with a synthetic voice to match, concepts by AI, scripted by AI *inserted 20% more Marvel snark* all to match the market research data. your eyes glaze over as you detach from humanity
my buddy
@devinkorwin
gave me some advice about grouping my midtones so there is less variance in value, applying his fb helped give this one a better read ✍️