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THE MOTION

The living type

The swell, the marker and the writing · a headline that breathes, gets swept and writes itself, and stays live editable type throughout.

The living type
The living type

3 steps

  1. STEP 1 · A HEADLINE THAT STAYS TYPESet a headline with Type (T). Everything in this walk moves the letters without ever cutting them loose · the piece stays one live line, so the font, the ink and the words themselves go on editing while it moves.
  2. STEP 2 · THE SWELL, AND THE MARKERPress The line swells and the words ride a travelling swell · water under the baseline, with a second number saying where the crest stands, so the reel can raise the sea and then walk it along the line. Press The marker passes and a felt pen draws itself behind the words, line after line in reading order, in its own ink well · change the felt without touching a letter.
  3. STEP 3 · AND IT WRITES ITSELFIt writes itself lays the words on a glyph at a time, in reading order · a wide letter costs the hand longer than a narrow one, so the line keeps a writing rhythm instead of a slider’s. Still one live piece. When you want the letters to become separate things, that is The word becomes letters, one door along.

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