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2022 TDC Awards - Communication Design

Machine-Learning-Generated-Audio-Reactive-Type

Agency Dev Valladares / Baltimore

Category

Motion/TV / Unscreened/Experimental - Single

Annual ID

TDC68_137C

With a new interest in Machine-Learning and the eternal love for typography, I combined the two: I trained a database of 4,000 fonts installed on my machine using a Stylegan 2 model, then exported using Michael Arafiz's open-sourced Lucid Sonic Dreams notebook. As opposed to our experienced world of 3 — or 4 — dimensions, the AI model operates in a space of 512 of them, well outside the constraints of our imagination. The results were absolutely astonishing — type could suddenly morph in ways I had not previously believed possible — from upper to lowercase, serif to sans, bold to italic, expanded to condensed, hairline to ultrablack — all transitioning smoothly without any awkward in-between states.

All the while expressing the depth, harmony and emotion of beautiful music — covers taken with permission from some close friends.

2022 Awards

Total Points: 20

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