Peter Cho
Focused on creating fonts which were designed for
computational manipulation.
personal website
Development
and temporal manipulation of expressive, malleable typography. Masters thesis,
Massachusetts Institute for Technology, 1997
Paul Haeberli
Haeberli created a utility for doing real-time, 3D
transformations of letterforms. Unfortunately I can't find a reference anywhere
on the web. You might as well check out Dynadraw
an early drawing program that uses gesture to interpret stroke, etc.
Suguru Ishizaki
Early work on Kinetic
Typography. Ph.D. thesis a good starting point, along with Wong and Small,
for a discussion of the usability issues involved in the reading and experience
of dynamic typography.
Golan Levin
Relentless experimenter, Levin has produced a number
of smaller pieces which play with typography in various expressive ways.
Alphabet
Synthesis Machine
Nibble
Jason
Lewis
Dynamic Poetry project sought to create a new genre
of poems driven by interactive/dynamic type; ActiveText project build a number
of tools to create such texts.
Dynamic
Poetry
It's Alive!
TextOrgan
John Maeda
Has made innovation with computational type one of
the cornerstones of his work, and of the work done by his students in the Aesthetic
and Computation Group at the Media Lab
Flying Letters. Reactive Book Series, Number Two. Digitalogue, Tokyo, 1996.
MEADASTUDIO
Dynamic Typography
Tara Rosenberger-Shankar.
Prosodic Font: The space between the spoken and the
written. Masters thesis, Massachusetts Institute for Technology, 1998.
Bill Seaman
The World Generator / The Engine of Desire
Recombinant
Poetics: Emergent Meaning as Examined and Explored Within a Specific Generative
Virtual Environment
David Small
Conducted a series of experiments at the Media Lab's
Visual Language Workshop in dynamic and three-dimensional typography.
Rethinking the
Book
Stream of Consciousness
Typographic
Space
Perception
of Temporal Typography
BrainOpera
Douglas Soo
Implementation of a temporal typography system. Masters
thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997.
Josh Nimoy
Textension
Camille Utterback
TextRain
Yin Yin Wong
Characterization of time-varying typographic forms.Masters
thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1995
Temporal
Typography, A Proposal to Enrich Written Expression
Sha Xin Wei
Conducts Hubbub,
a project dedicated to different means of visualizing speech in public places.
The project uses TextOrgan as the it's text visualization engine.
Type In Motion: Innovations in Digital Graphics