I've recently got invovled with a typographic distraction and have been working on a project which aims to cover the atrium at Millennium Point, Birmingham, in a Field of Light - and it’s going to look magical! This is all part of the Hello Digitla festival that is running in Birmingham 23-26 October 2008.
However, you don’t have to be in Birmingham to view the Field because we’re using a web-cam and you’ll be able to watch it 24 hours a day at www.fieldoflight.com.
The best bit though, is the Field is fully interactive with music for added atmosphere, and it is you who can control it and it is you who can make it move in any way you want! It doesn’t matter who you are or where you live, anyone from anywhere in the world can be a part of our project and play the Field in Birmingham.
So how does it work? First of all you need to register yourself with www.fieldoflight.com and then go to our sequencer page where you can create your own light sequence. Submit your designs and if enough members like what you have done your sequence will be played by the Field live in Birmingham and watched by people all over the world.
It’s simple! So come on and play the field.
About caroline Archer
Caroline has worked in the typographic industry since 1988. She has a holistic approach to the subject being not only a practicing typographer but also a teacher of its theory, a researcher of its history, and a writer and journalist championing the typographic cause.