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Friday, February 23, 2007

Pull shapes!



The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics, was written and illustrated by Norton Juster, with typography done by Don Foster. Two years after its publication in 1963, MGM turned the book into a 10-minute animation, which ended up winning the 1965 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Both the book and the narrated animation are gorgeous and clever and typographical (even though they only feature a few numbers, and no letters or puncutation), and have the added bonus of featuring geometry (which generally floats my boat). Watch it!

2 Comments:

Blogger Voska Dour said...

That was brilliant!!

Single Tear.

5:41 p.m.  
Blogger Sharon said...

I know who Van Kay's dot is!

6:27 p.m.  

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