Experimental Typographic Design with Processing
The Sonotype case
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About the video: The Sonotype case
Overview
“Finally, I tell you a little about the Sonotype project that I developed at the beginning of 2016; an experimental typographic font that is altered by sound.”
In this video lesson BlueTypo addresses the topic: The Sonotype case, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Typographic Design with Processing. Create your own alphabet with simple programming tricks.
Partial transcription of the video
“[Music] The Sonotype is an experimental type created in processing. It was created by Alfonso Alba who is a friend and I in this year. Sonotipo is a type that reacts in real time to the sound. It has basically two functions that one is to analyze the sound volume and another to analyze the sound spectrum and with these two initial values, the typography that we have already predefined suffers alterations in real time. To see this I'm going to show you how Sonotype works. Sonotype has this interface where one can write anything and what I am writing automatically is transformed from the inpu...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Typographic Design with Processing
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Areas
Programming, Typography, Typography Design

BlueTypo
A course by BlueTypo
BlueTypo is a design and creative consulting studio, specialized in the development of typography, poster, editorial design and interaction. This study is in charge of Eréndida Mancilla and Manolo Guerrero, based in Mexico since 2000.
Her work has been published by Women designers, Graphic Art News, International Amnesty, Inspiration Design, Typographic Posters, Women Designers, Women Designing, LATAM, RGB magazine and Typodarium, FontFeed by FontShop, I love typography, Typography Served, Hard types, The Annual Typography 30, 365 Typo 2, Typodarium 2010, 2011 and 2012 and the magazines Digital Arts, Page Magazine, Tiypo and Communication Arts.
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