By day, Marcus Byrne works as a motion graphics designer for clients like Honda. But one night the Melbourne-based designer and self-proclaimed Apple geek decided to create a new font using the colorful icons on his iPhone and came up with a lively collection of letterforms and a typeface called Phone Streak.
Byrne created each character by waving his iPhone like a magic wand in front of a Canon 5D DSLR and conjured the magical results in three- and four-second exposures. The resulting typeface is dynamic, what you’d expect from a font made by flailing an iPhone around in the dark, but also displays a strong sense of craft. Through a process of trial and error he was able to manipulate the phone the way a calligrapher controls a brush. “Holding the iPhone in the same position for a little longer before making the strokes gave the camera enough time to capture the detail in the App icons.” says Byrne. The frozen images of app icons act like serifs, grounding the letters while also revealing their unusual origin.
via Wired
