Sat.Jul 02, 2011 - Fri.Jul 08, 2011

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A THING FOR SHOULDERS

Illustration Art

Illustrator Henry Raleigh had a thing for shoulders. Other artists loved to draw hands. Al Dorne , Steve Ditko and Mort Drucker all emphasized hands in their pictures, building compositions around them and infusing them with significance. Amedeo Modigliani's tastes were a little different; he seemed to have a thing for necks , extruding them to achieve the effects he wanted.

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Typefacial Recognition at H&Co Labs

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

We’re generally content to control font outlines by pushing points around on a screen, but an intuitive interface for managing the entire gestalt of a type family remains elusive. Andy Clymer at H&Co tends to develop fonts and tools together (one always seems to be the excuse to create the other), and this is his latest exploration: using facial recognition to control the basic parameters of a font’s design.

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Typefacial Recognition at H&Co Labs

Fonts by Hoefler&Co.

We’re generally content to control font outlines by pushing points around on a screen, but an intuitive interface for managing the entire gestalt of a type family remains elusive. Andy Clymer at H&Co tends to develop fonts and tools together (one always seems to be the excuse to create the other), and this is his latest exploration: using facial recognition to control the basic parameters of a font’s design.

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