Unit Editions, an independent publishing collaboration between Tony Brook (Spin) and Adrian Shaughnessy, have released two new videos showcasing spreads from Type Plus and Type Only. Featuring a range of contemporary typographic work by a host of international designers. If you don’t get a chance to flick through them yourself this is a nice little sneak peak into their contents.

Both are available from Unit Editions here:
uniteditions.com

And you can watch all of their videos on Vimeo here:
vimeo.com/uniteditions

Nice promo for Font Font’s new Open Type features by Stark Films. Based on the pangram ‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog the film playfully highlights each of the new features introduced by Font Font through various contrasting mediums.

For more information on the new features introduced you can take a look here –

fontfont.com/ot-feature-sample/

Directors: Rob Blake and Zu Kalinowska
Producer: Brian Papish

Nice social media campaign for Swedish homecare brand Åhléns by agency Forsman & Bodenfors

Agency: Forsman & Bodenfors
Copywriter: Pontus Levahn
Art director: Silla Levin
Designer: Ellinor Bjarnolf
Production company: Snask

Ever wondered if your interpretation of a book was accurate? Wonder no more. With e-books taking over printed book sales it was only a matter of time before we made them more ‘interactive’. Effectively less book-like… And that’s exactly what Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have created with their project ‘Sensory Fiction’. A wearable, augmented book that attempts to make the reader ‘feel’ the story page by page. With clever use of vibration, lighting, heat and air bags it induces physical sensations from the reader that align with what’s happening on each page of the book. Clever stuff eh.

For a slightly more technical explanation of the project, take a look on the MIT site here

I won’t even try to explain how this works, but its pretty amazing. The creators at Tangible Media Group sum it up as –

“inFORM is a Dynamic Shape Display that can render 3D content physically, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it, for example moving objects on the table’s surface. Remote participants in a video conference can be displayed physically, allowing for a strong sense of presence and the ability to interact physically at a distance. inFORM is a step toward our vision of Radical Atoms: tangible.media.mit.edu/vision/ ”

If you’d like to read more about this project you can visit their site here