{"id":11037,"date":"2006-01-22T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-22T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/01\/words-at-play.html"},"modified":"2006-01-22T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-22T22:00:13","slug":"words_at_play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/22\/words_at_play\/","title":{"rendered":"Words at Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

Typography + animation come together beautifully in Words At Play<\/a>, the companion site to Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich & Matteo Bologna’s<\/a> book of the same name. The project, a “many-splendored, multi-layered typographic tour d’amour<\/i>,” showcases de Vicq’s typographic portraits of 21 renowned writers (plus Al Capone and Napoleon Bonaparte). After snagging a pair of Webby awards<\/a>, the site is up for the People’s Choice<\/a> award at next month’s Flashforward. It’s got my vote.
\nWords at Play was built<\/a> by animating type in After Effects, then exporting keyframes to Adobe LiveMotion as XML (.amx). As it happens, I’ve seen speculation recently about Adobe resurrecting LiveMotion<\/a>. That strikes me as quite unlikely, but there were some cool concepts (e.g. data exchange via XML, animation applied via styles) that I’d love to see revisited.
\nIf you like Words At Play, check out Roberto’s earlier Bembo Zoo<\/a>, an abecedary<\/a> featuring animals drawn in letters [Via<\/a>]. These guys also did a terrific portrait<\/a> of Adobe co-founder John Warnock, using the Warnock Pro<\/a> font created in his honor. (Random aside: I also found a portrait of Dr. Warnock rendered in PostScript<\/a>, the language he invented<\/a>.)
\nTangentially related:<\/p>\n