Mary Huang is from California, USA. She studied at UCLA design/media arts and Interaction Design at CIID. One of the resent project she has been working on for a while is the Typeface. Typeface is an application that produces a unique typeface based on the user’s face characteristics. Typeface translates the facial dimensions of the user and at the same time it creates a natural handwriting typeface. Not only does this contrast with the geometric qualities generative type experiments tend to take, but also challenges the conventions of typing versus writing. During the whole process you can write in a text field and view the changing of the type. The project is currently under development so there is no downloadable version. We hope for one in the near future.
TYPEFACE from Mary Huang on Vimeo.
Tuesday, 27. April 2010
This is a very intriguing idea. I am wondering whether it is really possible to make high quality typefaces based on those premises… I look forward to seeing this released - if only out of extreme curiosity. Thanks for sharing!