Jul 28 2009I'd Type With It: Font Created By Driving A Car
Personally, I've always wanted a font created out of my handwriting because I have the cutest damn handwriting in the world (I even dot my i's with hearts!), but hey, a driving font, that's cool too.
Graphic designers Pierre Smeets and Damien Aresta, known collectively as pleaseletmedesign, teamed up with professional race car driver Stef van Campenhoudt to...create a font.
As you can see Campenhoudt did the "writing". The 4 dots on the roof of the car was tracked in real time using a camera and a custom software designed by fellow artist Zachary Lieberman of openFrameworks.
If you ask me, I'd say it turned out pretty well. So go ahead -- ask me. I think it turned out pretty well. Told you! I AM A MAN OF MY WORD.
Hit the jump for a video of the font creation in action, complete with soundtrack that gave me an aural seizure.
carwriting: designers track car's movements to make iq font [technabob]
Thanks to naas and Ramin, who created their own fonts using trained dogs and cats.
Reader Comments
1. naas - July 28, 2009 11:29 AM
Where in the hell did I just see thi.... oh wait I was one of 12 to submit it
2. chris - July 28, 2009 11:31 AM
awesome
3. Ryan Ward - July 28, 2009 11:39 AM
SO AWESOME!
Wait... Nobody else said it......
.....
FIRST!!
4. Angel Mass - July 28, 2009 11:43 AM
I wish it was free to download. Still not as cool as "Planet X" font
5. naas - July 28, 2009 11:47 AM
@3 http://sturmdesjahrhunderts.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/facepalm.jpg
6. STOMPY (is still banging Pikachu) - July 28, 2009 11:56 AM
http://pikachusex.ytmnd.com/
if I can't have sex with it, i don't care... and trust me, i've tried having sex with GothicE but it didn't really work out the best.
7. maomao - July 28, 2009 11:56 AM
wow this is so stupid
8. Booger - July 28, 2009 12:02 PM
@7 - Agreed. Colossal waste of time.
9. delsolracing - July 28, 2009 12:07 PM
@4 It is free to download. http://nl.toyota.be/iqfont
10. Boost - July 28, 2009 12:24 PM
Who listens to the crap that is the soundtrack of this?
Can you seriously imagine anyone have a CD full of it driving around listening to it.
"man, this is the sound of the FUTURE, get used to it"
SCREW that. Just cause something is new doesn't mean it is good.
11. naas - July 28, 2009 12:24 PM
Where's Shumway today? It's a little quiet in here
12. Dixie Normous - July 28, 2009 12:25 PM
would be cool if they didnt make it with a shitmobile
13. YourJoyIsMyLow - July 28, 2009 12:26 PM
...zzzzzZZZZZzzzzz........
14. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 28, 2009 12:39 PM
@naas
I'm here. I'm also very busy not giving a shit about these stories today. Sorry pal.
@post
Stupid shit that people do with their spare tires.
15. naas - July 28, 2009 12:49 PM
Ahh good...
16. Daisy - July 28, 2009 1:22 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max is teaching the noobs at work how to fill out an expense report. He shares the fake receipt font and teaches them all about falsifying credit card receipts. They go out to Sams club, buy some register tape and also some restaurant order books. One lucky bastard finds a cash register at a garage sale, and the first receipt he falsifies is to get paid for buying the register.
17. Pat - July 28, 2009 3:17 PM
That is cool as hell. (Music not so much.)
18. Dick - July 28, 2009 4:11 PM
That font is not that special looking, kinda normal at that. Agreed Epic Waste of Time & Money for those "Font Designers". Sounds like a cool job, but they are running short on ideas it looks like.
19. Heather - July 28, 2009 4:36 PM
However, when he writes the word "Geekologie," the i is dotted with a smiley face. True story.
20. Apeman505 - July 28, 2009 8:10 PM
It's cool and all, but it's a lot of effort to make a car-font when they clearly ALREADY DREW OUT WHAT THEY WANTED IT TO LOOK LIKE BEFORE THEY STARTED!!!
I also like how the credits were in Arial.
21. nick - July 29, 2009 12:08 AM
Did anyone else read the last sentence in the post as saying "anal seizure"?
Because I was kind of excited to hear what would cause that.
22. geekofan - July 29, 2009 3:47 AM
check this out >>
http://75684.onodot.com/
23. Mugen - July 29, 2009 7:43 AM
Cheese.
24. Jaded Icon - July 29, 2009 7:46 AM
Meh....
25. zeus - July 29, 2009 8:08 PM
Z4 add ripoff
26. Yooarel.com - August 1, 2009 6:43 AM
First of all, the font at the end of the video is not Arial, noobs.
Second, of course they drew out what they wanted first. The purpose was to have the resulting finished product be made by something other than a font DRAWN with one's own hand or mouse. The output of the final product reflects the exact travels of the vehicle, rather than a pen & paper, or a mouse (be it freehand or by point-to-point vector design). That, in concept, is a valid and novel idea.
I like how you all hate on it, though. Tell me, what sort of ground-breaking things have you done lately? What's your greatest accomplishment thus far? Have you ever been the first to do anything? Anything at all? No. So quit your ridiculously jealous and immature bitching. At least these guys thought of something creative and followed through on it. That's more than I can say for a bunch of kids bitching about how "lame" something is on a website.