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28 MARCH 2012
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Type that behaves: the prospect of autonomous type creatures

"From sketch to final creation for his Biotypography project, Oded [Ezer] wanted to create live, almost cinematic situations where these typo creatures 'act' and 'behave.' He says the most difficult part of the project was the issue of balance - where to draw the line between the insect and the letters.

Biotypography - typo art project depicting manipulated Hebrew and Latin 'Typo creatures.'

'When I saw an ant on the floor of my studio, I started to imagine what would happen if this was a creature half ant and half letter. Wouldn't it be wonderful if nature had invented letters? And then maybe different letter-ants could gather, create words and communicate with us!?'

'I could manufacture a medium wherein typography could develop and evolve into something completely different.'"

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alphabet synthesis • ant • autonomous • autonomous type • biotypography • Biotypography project • cinematic situations • create words • creature • cross-cultural • design speculation • evolution • evolve • experimental type • experimental typography • experimentation • graphic design • half ant • half letter • Hebrew • Hezi Leskly • insect • intercultural • invented letters • Latin • letter-ants • letterform exercises • letters • manufacture a medium • nature • new forms of typography • Oded Ezer • primitive logic • speculative design • synthetic-life • type • type that can act • type that communicates • type that gathers • types that behaves • typo art project • typo creatures • typographer • typography

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Simon Perkins
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