Tuesday, September 2, 2008

Text/Composition

I started thinking about text and how people use text to give life, tell a story, or simply describe. Then I was thinking about manipulation (thus the composition) of the text - literally the shape of the letters, font, kerning, leading, etc....

Here are a couple of videos I was thinking about:
[Kinetic Typography]




2 comments:

jonstone said...

This is cool. Hey, and thanks for the flowgram comment.. it actually worked better than I thought it might. I *detest* powerpoint (thus my very minimalistic slides in the flowgram)--but, yeah, it made integrating other media fairly easy.

Cool beans.

jonstone said...

Just watched this again--we are so using it in class.

Thanks!

Jon