![]() ![]() His project ‘3-D Chess Board was created to “add an extra dimension of physicality to the game’s battle field.” Lee combines learning with play. With the Latin alphabet as the starting point Lee revolves the existing letters around themselves in a 360 degree using a 3D modeling program until they become symmetrical ‘objects’ which the user can arrange to form words and sentences readable from left-to-right, right-to-left, top-to-bottom and bottom-to-top, as well as using them to build sculptures, buildings or furniture. ![]() It was created by Korean artist Ji Lee as an attempt to challenge and question conventional reading methods. UNIVERS REVOLVED is a three-dimensional alphabet consisting of 26 letters. Looking up, there is a whole new language They start to get bigger and bigger, as we don’t look only at human sized space and elements, notion of close and far disappear: buildings, trees, highways, clouds, … ![]() After looking around for some time, the viewer get quite used, and letters pop up naturally to the eyes. Doing so gives almost infinite possibilities, typography appears everywhere, as long as we make a visual effort and look through different points of view around a portion of a space.Ī skyline of colorful contrast talks in different shapes and by every millimeter i move my head a new letter appears by light incidenceĪ 2D surface already offers a lot of possibilities, considering that 3D got this 360° properties, we can imagine how far it can go. The idea isn’t really to get a space visually flat, to then guess typography on it, but to perceive letters as 3D objects. The thing is to get into the same processes as Licko, Williams and Jensen did : looking at the qualities given by the dimension we work on, to see how they can relate to another dimension. Observing our daily environment, well known from us as a 3D space where everything get a shape, a form, a touch. On the basis of those 2D to 3D experiments, and the desire to give a physical touch to a letter, comes naturally a curiosity for the other way around. The 3D printer was obviously the most clever solution, to get quickly if we can say, a first physical result. The next step for her was to think about the materials and a technical realization : how to choose a material which gives the physical feeling expected through the previous examples, and how to realize it with a practical and efficient technique. Jensen challenged to finally give this « f » a physical form. Guy Williams obviously got inspired by those multiple peaks, and came naturally to this virtual 3D representation, which doesn’t surprise next to the original one. Simple, efficient, and very particular, Licko’s « f » gives a lot of inspiration for who’s interested in 3D environment. Surprising how the shadow come first, before the object. Considering this, we even could imagine this one as the shadow of Suzanne Jensen’s object, realized years after. As if Licko already had in her mind the physical sensation of this letter in her hands. Flat but already shaped round, but with a sharp feeling. The original version of Zuzana Licko already shows an interest around a 3D perspective. Then Guy Williams, made an 3D virtual interpretation of it with the program Alias, called Polymorphous : ( see Dimensional Typography, J.Abbott Miller, 1996)Īn former student of basic year, Suzanne Jensen, realized a 3D printed version of this letter as part of this research program back in 2016 Modula Ribbed, a variation from the original Modula font : In 1995, the graphic designer Zuzana Licko created the typeface ![]()
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