marcus byrne turns iPhone painted light into font + 3D letter

marcus byrne turns iPhone painted light into font + 3D letter
all images courtesy of marcus byrne

generated by painting with icons on an iPhone, the irish born, australian-based designer marcus byrne, captures the moving light trails in the air to form letters. shot in the dark with a 3.5 second exposure the unique characters reflect their flowing, movement-produced method, with the icons still visible in the typography. developing the font a step further, the upper-case letter ‘z’ was 3D printed in a green acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), which is similar to lego material. the full set of characters are available in true type and open type format and can be downloaded from the designer for free here.

light painting iPhone movement

full light streak alphabet uppercase

full light streak alphabet lowercase

full light streak punctuation

letter ‘M’ light streak close up

‘hash’ light streak close up

letter ‘e’ light streak close up

‘percentage’ light streak close up

‘ampersand’ light streak close up

designboom in ‘phonestreak’ font

from light streak to 3D object

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