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Beth Fileti (she/her), a multidisciplinary designer exploring art and technology. I specialize in systems thinking, communication strategies, and design solutions.

Light Motion Font

OpenFrameworks

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2019

Inspired by a line made by waving a flashlight back and forth, I wanted to use Open Frameworks to see if I could make a font that relies on motion.


I came up with the design for "Light Array" motion font, which uses traveling circles to create lines and letterforms. To facilitate the “drawing” process, I developed a 5x7 grid system and used a two-digit coordinate-mapping system for each circle’s movement. So “12”, referred to row 1, column 2 and “17” refers to row 1, column 7. This allowed me to have the relatively simple notation for each line of “colMovement(12, 17).”

'HOPE', RISO Animation from workshop with Kelli Anderson

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