a toy of typography |
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29.04.2007
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| Toypography, by Dainippon Type Organization (first seen at DesignTide 2006) is a toy of typography. Fragments of letters, that can be put together to either English or Japanese letters and characters. The thing about Toypography is, that Japanese expressions can be transformed into English expressions of the same meaning. |
Yeah I remember this, I was actually at the DesignTide exhibition in Tokyo. I remember writing the word 'cunt' with them. Good times.
Posted by Christopher A. Lawson
13:48 / 03/05/2007
13:48 / 03/05/2007
That's very very cool.
By the way, these characters are actually Chinese, or kanji.
By the way, these characters are actually Chinese, or kanji.
Posted by Yun Zan
17:29 / 14/05/2007
17:29 / 14/05/2007
oh my god - how is this possible! this is beyond amazing!
Posted by wowah
18:04 / 14/05/2007
18:04 / 14/05/2007
clever stuff, I love the wee animals under the type, my favorite is the dog/horse.
Posted by goodhand
11:32 / 16/05/2007
11:32 / 16/05/2007
Wonderful!
Would be cool to embed magnets to each piece!
Would be cool to embed magnets to each piece!
Posted by Sasha
03:17 / 20/05/2007
03:17 / 20/05/2007
Br!ll!ant. Imagine the possibilities. Wonder how many other words they explored.
This could be a wonderful tool for teaching children (or adults) language both
visually and through action of building the letters and characters.
This could be a wonderful tool for teaching children (or adults) language both
visually and through action of building the letters and characters.
Posted by Van Cooley
16:41 / 25/06/2007
16:41 / 25/06/2007
This thing is going to bore the pants off of the kids of thousands of geeked-out designers. Blech.
Posted by Janek Hildemeyer
11:08 / 26/06/2007
11:08 / 26/06/2007
Yea, I'd post this link to all kind of teachers if it weren't for Christopher A. Lawson's comment. Way to go, jerk.
Posted by Some Random Dude
03:04 / 09/07/2007
03:04 / 09/07/2007
Hey, these guys designed a t-shirt for us, Tokyo Art Beat. We are a non-profit organization. Check'em out. http://www.tokyoartbeat.com/shop/
Posted by Paul Baron
09:27 / 09/07/2007
09:27 / 09/07/2007
"This thing is going to bore the pants off of the kids of thousands of geeked-out designers. Blech."
- Posted by Janek Hildemeyer
Haha. I agree. Really cool, but I gotta agree with Janek;I'm sure many people have turned letters into pictures into kanji etc. Making building blocks of this idea is clever, but nowhere near "beyond amazing!" w
- Posted by Janek Hildemeyer
Haha. I agree. Really cool, but I gotta agree with Janek;I'm sure many people have turned letters into pictures into kanji etc. Making building blocks of this idea is clever, but nowhere near "beyond amazing!" w
Posted by Terry McCall
16:57 / 09/07/2007
16:57 / 09/07/2007
Alas, that last one doesn't show the respect I have for the waterfall of inspiration that flows from TAB's various artists & designers. 日本に帰りたいニャ!
Posted by Terry McCall
17:06 / 09/07/2007
17:06 / 09/07/2007
>>By the way, these characters are actually Chinese, or kanji.
They were originally borrowed from Chinese, but they're Japanese characters now. Besides which, the current official Chinese versions of "horse" and "bird" for example are quite different.
They were originally borrowed from Chinese, but they're Japanese characters now. Besides which, the current official Chinese versions of "horse" and "bird" for example are quite different.
Posted by Coal
20:26 / 09/07/2007
20:26 / 09/07/2007
Very cute/ cool but if you check out the site, you'll see how expensive they are. They range in price from 9500￥ for a short word like BEAR to 12500￥ for a longer word like MONKEY. That's about 100 bucks a word! To get all 7 words, it'll cost you around 700$. I dread to think what the shipping charge would be like (cheaper for me, I live in Japan.)
Posted by Michael-Sensei
00:47 / 10/07/2007
00:47 / 10/07/2007
Coal, the Chinese versions of "horse" and "bird" are the same as pictured. But I think you are referring to simplified Chinese which does look slightly different and I don't believe is officially integrated as the national form of writing yet. (Long live traditional!!)
Posted by Kelly
23:45 / 11/07/2007
23:45 / 11/07/2007
anyone figure out where you can buy 'em yet? Somewhere closer to home than Japan?
Posted by jeremy
09:11 / 15/10/2007
09:11 / 15/10/2007
hey where can i get these blocks, they rocks.
mitchell.ratchik@gmail.com
mitchell.ratchik@gmail.com
Posted by mitchell Ratchik
08:37 / 29/11/2007
08:37 / 29/11/2007
very interesting
Posted by dodo
20:40 / 09/12/2007
20:40 / 09/12/2007
Looks very funny and ineresting. How about copyright? Can i post this images on my site.
Posted by Edwin
10:32 / 25/04/2008
10:32 / 25/04/2008
This was amazing advace. Worked Great. If i ever meet you I'll buy ya a beer. Thanks man.
Posted by Jane
10:37 / 25/04/2008
10:37 / 25/04/2008
Nice pictures. I use to search pictures about travel but it is very interesting too.
Posted by Brand
12:29 / 30/04/2008
12:29 / 30/04/2008
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