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Lahti 1999

Most students participating never faced making a typeface (with one exception...).
On friday a cd-rom was produced with all the projects being presented. It worked! Unfortunately I can not show you here the actual cd-rom. I'm working to have an old computer that can run it and tape it. I lost the original unprotected version too.

Start Facing Type

The workshop was called "Facing Type" with the mug shots of the students turning their back on me and then facing me. With one exception...
The Interface
Using a digital camera and processing the images so they were only black and white made a fast animation possible.
Sami Kortemäki: Essence
He did not want to make an experimental typeface. We had quite a dicussion about this. Finally he proposed an idea he tought was impossible. When it turned out to be possible this project became one of the best ever. Btw: he was the exception...The essence of it all…
And more if you want to!
Kustaa Saksi: Rubik
I can’t do that, said Hal.
And more if you want to
Creating four letter words…
Anja Reponen: families
Every character keeps it's family members
It does get crowded.
At night they watch tv on the sofa.
Jaakko Kahala: Sonata
Music notation used as a typeface
A poem, a book, mystery and music.
Laura Lyytinen: Topography
Pretending she misunderstood.
Experimental tOpography? You get it.
Find your way. Storm is coming.
Juri Patrikainen:
Post Script Terror
When the computer boycots your work.
Can't beat it? Join it.
And then you shoot it.
Mirella Mäkilä: Russian
From Russia with love.
Looks russian.
Reads western.