Incremental Leasing using CSS

Mark Boulton has a nice article over on his blog on incremental leading.

Also, don´t miss ‘Compose to a Vertical Rhythm’ from Richard Rutter, and the article on Baseline Grids, from a List Apart.

Source: Mark Boulton

FONTSELF

This is pretty interesting... Computer generated text, using a digitized manuscript font. The results are great and very beliveable:

FONTSELF is a type project about handwriting and drawn writing.

It provides the ability to create fonts that preserves the gestures of a given handwriting and the original look of the drawing appliance (ball-point pen, pencil, ink, paper, etc.).

FONTSELF proposes intuitive tools to create and edit bitmap font (scanned letters) as well as solutions to use them and exchange them.


You can even render a live news feed.

Nejib

What an amazing work by Nejib. See for yourself: Alphabets and Videos.
How does he do it?

Snoil - A Physical Display Based on Ferrofluid

Snoil, a sensitive skin of oil, is a great interactive piece by Martin Frey.

Ferrofluid is a liquid that reacts to magnetism. It is attracted by magnets, pretty similar to iron. This can lead to areas where the liquid partly resists to gravitation when a magnet approaches. Thereby a small bump is formed close to the loadstone. This behavior is enabled by magnetic nano-particles that are suspended in a carrier fluid. Normally the particles are coated with a surfactant to prevent their agglomeration. This results in stable ferrofluid dispersions.

Snake + Oil = SnOil

There are different reasons, why an interesting application for the ferrofluid-display is based on the game Snake: the food pieces are shaped out of the surrounding fluid and are instantly converted to the snakes body after consumption. So the growth in length of the snakes tail comes along with a real swelling volume of the collected fluid. The snake on the screen is steered by a joystick or a keyboard whereas the input interface of SnOil relies on a straighter action: The player holds the whole ferrofluid-basin in his hands and controls the flow direction of the snake by slightly tilting in the according direction. The controller measures this by tilt-sensors.

See the video here.

Source: Core77

Text, space and time

Chronotext is a growing collection of software experiments exploring the relation between text, space and time. By Ariel Marka, a designer and programmer based in Tel-Aviv.

BaseLAB

BaseLAB specializes in designing new and custom fonts, customizing existing fonts, producing fonts and logotype design and optimization. They also create small tools and programs for specific client needs and also for designer's recreation.
From the alrealy wonderfull Base.

Spell with flickr

Has you may have noticed, I´ve instaled a little javascript on top of the page, that gives me the letters of Type for you in different pictures everytime I refresh or load the site. :) And if you click on any letter, you are redirected to flickr and the user who took the picture.
Very inspiring tool and great program from Erik Kastner.