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by funk_king


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well another escher inspired set. however with this one i was also influenced by the soma cube - which is very escheresk itself. actually i don't know if i'm more happy about this set which is much more simple and clean than my previous efforts or that i finally googled upon the soma cube which i had as a kid and wasted many hours playing with...much like now with fs :) thanks to frodo7 with Homage a Escher and shasta with Escheresk for providing great examples of clarity and inventiveness of design in this genre.
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66 characters, 89 downloads
Created:
Thu, 6th August, 1:07 AM 2009
Last Edit:
Mon, 28th September, 1:24 AM 2009
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Discussion

Magic Sam
Magic Sam Thu, 6th August, 2009

Very nice concept. Like it!

Frodo7
Frodo7 Fri, 7th August, 2009

Yet another fine example that the idea is all around us. It looks beautiful. Flawless. Actually, I expected to see something like this from you after the release of tesselation and molecular complex series. One can not not see the third dimension in them. Now I've learned about the Soma cube (and its connection to lectures on quantum mechanics), this font looks even more attractive. I couldn't help, but took the mathematical description of soma pieces a bit further. We can describe your letters as polycubes of orders 8-27 (e.g. I = dodeca cube; J = duodeca cube; G = pentadeca cube; E = hexadeca cube, etc.). Add to that the description of left/right screw, branching, bending, chirality, and presto you defined your letters the way even a blind computer can visualize them.

Any "colour" version in your font workshop?

Frodo7
Frodo7 Fri, 7th August, 2009

Correction: I = octa cube

intaglio
intaglio Fri, 7th August, 2009

You've outdone yourself, f.k. What I particularly like -- no shading! No that I'm agin it, far from it. But I love the way the dimensional effect is achieved just by messing with the conventions, and the fact the glyph shapes themselves are an extension of what you've been playing with for a long time now. Perfect.

geneus1
geneus1 Fri, 7th August, 2009

Okay, I'm going to start calling you Funk King Midas because everything you touch turns to fonts! Really nice execution on this one. Greatness, cubed.

oyrus
oyrus Fri, 7th August, 2009

It's like a set of recomposed rubik cubes.

funk_king
funk_king Fri, 7th August, 2009

thanks crew for your comments and support.

@frodo7 - whew man, that's some deep stuff there. you bring another um, dimension to commentary. you are a true renaissance man. sorry no color version.

@ tag - yes, i'm an evolutionist for sure. it seems i start something and like a pit bull, can't quite release it until, well until, oh forget it :)

@genenus1 - haha fkm. now i need to go reserve some new email addresses and domain names :)

@ oyrus - well i'm not certain, but i think soma was invented first. but of course rubik is what everyone knows. and when i was searching for the soma cube before i found it, i mainly got results showing rubik. but you're right :)

gferreira
gferreira Fri, 7th August, 2009

Congratulations! FontStruct Staff have deemed your FontStruction worthy of special mention. “soma” is now a Top Pick.

gferreira
gferreira Fri, 7th August, 2009

A wonderful synthesis of all the work you have put into the Molecular series.

djnippa
djnippa Fri, 7th August, 2009

The Puzzle style fonts seem to be ruling the roost at the moment. Well done.

SquarePeg
SquarePeg Sat, 8th August, 2009

Beautiful work, funk king. And, now I know what a soma cube is. :-)

funk_king
funk_king Mon, 10th August, 2009

thanks fs staff and djnippa and squarepeg :)

@squarepeg - as i remember the soma cube can be lots of fun and much less frustrating than rubik :)

afrojet
afrojet Wed, 12th August, 2009

Digging this FK. Like Oyrus, I'm loving the rubik's cube vibe.

Digging this FK. Like Oyrus, I'm loving the rubik's cube vibe.
funk_king
funk_king Sat, 15th August, 2009

thanks afrojet for the sample. sweet :)

Frodo7
Frodo7 Sat, 15th August, 2009

Great sample!

p2pnut
p2pnut Sat, 15th August, 2009

Nice one.

darkseeid
darkseeid Mon, 28th September, 2009

Nice font tribute to the best "MC" of geometry....,)

funk_king
funk_king Tue, 29th September, 2009

thanks darkseeid :)

peace818
peace818 Sat, 6th February, 8:17 AM

Awesome !!

Awesome !!