{"id":8,"date":"2004-06-03T16:11:36","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T00:11:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:41","slug":"ni9e-typography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2004\/06\/ni9e-typography","title":{"rendered":"Putting the Face Back in Typeface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/bobdylan.gif\" width=\"125\" height=\"133\" alt=\"\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>So the other day, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeldman.com\/daily\/0604a.shtml#saddest\" target=\"_blank\">Zeldman opined<\/a> that he&#8217;s not seeing the sort of creative explosion he once expected from the web.  I can&#8217;t say I disagree too much with that, but if you look in the right places, new jewels pop up every week.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"http:\/\/fi5e.com\/typo_illus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ni9e.com&#8217;s latest typographic illustration project<\/a>.  After watching it 20 or so times, I think it might really be the coolest thing I&#8217;ve ever seen in Flash.  It&#8217;s creative, artistic, simple, and brilliant.  The Bob Dylan (Garamond) one is my favorite, although all others are fantastic as well.  Sometimes when I see stuff this good, it makes me want to get out of design altogether.  I mean, when the bar is set this high, what&#8217;s the point of even jumping!<\/p>\n<p>I can only guess how this was done:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use a pressure-sensitive tablet to draw a musician.<\/li>\n<li>Record every stylus movement using a custom-built Flash routine.<\/li>\n<li>Compile a text file containing the lyrics of a song from that musician.<\/li>\n<li>Write some Actionscript which recreates the original movement of the stylus, but using letters from the lyrics instead of a plain black line.<\/li>\n<li>Use the pressure-sensitivity to create bigger letters for when the stylus was pressed down hard, and smaller letters for when the stroke was light.<\/li>\n<li>Import the song and play it while the figure is being drawn.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>It is great work like this which keeps me inspired about the web industry.  Kudos Ni9e.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the other day, Zeldman opined that he&#8217;s not seeing the sort of creative explosion he once expected from the web. I can&#8217;t say I disagree too much with that, but if you look in the right places, new jewels pop up every week. Take Ni9e.com&#8217;s latest typographic illustration project. After watching it 20 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-original"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}