Machine for Making Type - Modular Object Development

• More experimentation with line weight, seeing effect of positioning and spacing withing the letter form. 

Shapes become more involved with each other, they're less like 3 separate entities but work as a whole. 

 - Does think effect the way they're read?

 - Does it improve the typeface?

I think it is just as legible in the varying weights, but the larger the line the more bold and overwhelming the letters look. These could be used more for headings/titles/banners. Smaller weight used for less impact.

• Removing lines and reconstructing letters.

 - Seeing what shapes repeat

 - Are the shapes left legible as an alphabet?

 - How to use these shapes to develop a machine for making type?

 - Have items that rotate which are these shapes, turn into 3D objects, create a game/puzzle out of shapes.

 - Make 3D and have to organise into letter forms, have instruction in co-ordinates or words?

Ideas for Machine

Having shapes made from the singular lines of typeface and placing on pegboard, you would have to pick up the pieces, place them on the board to try and create the letters. 

Using a rubix cube, have letter forms on each face and you have to rearrange to make the letters. 

 - Could get too jumbled up it you couldn't get it back to the start again, to prevent this create a set of rules e.g. only use 3 moves to get the letters back in correct space.

Spinning circles with shapes on them, each piece moves independently and would join up to make the letters. 

 - Could have multiple letters on one circle, or have 26 individual ones each with their own letter.