Check out this beautiful typography created by Norwegian and Swiss designers Stian Ward Bugten and Simon Egil. It was made by breaking Shakespeare readings down based on loudness and frequency, and assigning certain pattern elements to different sound qualities. You can check out some more pictures and read more about the process here. Happy Monday!
October 5th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
wow, hot stuff. by the way, do you guys freelance now that flywheel has closed?
October 5th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Hmm. Not sure how I feel about this. It’s pretty… but “taking all the information out of the sound” of Shakespeare’s poetry seems like the ultimate literary crime. I mean, then it could just be, like, the phone book or Reader’s Digest or something. Or Nicholas Sparks.
October 9th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Wow. Cool idea and that detail is amazing.