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Toyota IQ Designs a New Font for Itself

Toyota IQ Designs a New Font for Itself

By Dave Pinter on July 17, 2009

Happiness Brussles, an agency based in Belgium recently completed a project to design a new font for the Toyota IQ to demonstrate the small car’s agility. Instead of going the usual route on sitting down at the computer and tweaking vectors, they decided to let the car design the font itself. Assisting the process were two typographers, a motion capture programmer, and a racing driver. The car was filmed in a warehouse and the movements were translated digitally into each corresponding letter.

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iQ font – When driving becomes writing / Full making of from wireless on Vimeo.

Toyota is giving the font away for free and you can get it here.

[via creative review]

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Dave Pinter is a senior editor at PSFK and focuses on automotive, design and retail news. Dave is a New York based concept designer. He's written and contributed photography for PSFK targeting retail design and branding, automotive marketing and design, and the NYC creative culture scene.

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