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entry[1] = {title: 'Pixilluminations',status: 'live',designer: 'Marian Bantjes',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'marian.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Not Again (N)ever</b> by <a href=\"http://www.3st.com\">Rick Valicenti</a><br/><b>Given</b> by <a href=\"http://www.onetwentyeight.com\">Adam Schwarcz</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'I am a designer, artist and illustrator living in the wilds of Canada, surrounded by trees, ferns and a zillion spiders. I grew up on the prairies and my early influences include clouds, lightning, frost and snow. Somewhere along the way I became obsessed with patterns and then I developed a further interest in illuminations, engraving and grafitti, all of which have been insinuating their way into my work like the tendrils of sweet peas ever since.<br /><br />When Rick asked me to be a part of his Playground project, his explanation of developing 26 characters that would begin thoughts rather than sentences gave me pause. I had to think about that for a while. I decided I wanted to use full words; words that might begin thoughts. Not words like "Duck,""Mortuary" or "Embryo," but words like "Perhaps," "Lamentably," or "Despite." Words that I myself might use in one of my own opinionated diatribes.<br /><br />However the concept of creating not only the illuminated initial but some kind of font for the rest of the word was more than I could handle. I thought of using Times Roman, which I thought would be kind of funny, but one day while having a bath in the middle of the afternoon, just as I was sinking under the water to rinse my hair, I had the answer. Pixel font.<br /><br />It seemed like the perfect idea. Not only did it make my life easier (or so I thought before I embarked on drawing curves, pixel by pixel), but I could make it work with Thirstype\'s Pizzelle, which would be useful and familial. Also, there are lots of ornamental things out there, but none in pixel form (that I knew of), so I would be creating something quite unique all \'round.\'<br /><br />And so the process began. My pen-mouse started acting up part-way through the project and I had to develop a new, stange stroking action to get my 1-pixel marks. Vast amounts of Cheerios saw me through the days and nights, and after extended play I began to notice strange patterns in iTunes "random play." It became apparent that iTunes has its own taste in music which it would attempt to foist upon me, including, inexplicably, a daily dose of Jethro Tull\'s "Aqualung." iTunes steeered me towards Peter, Paul and Mary, I steered it back to Pearl Jam; it wandered into Steve Earle, I force restarted it with Baby Mammoth. I battled iTunes and pixels simultaneously, until the project was done. Can you see the battle scars in the letterforms? I can. Here Tim Buckley, there Daniel Lanois; and there, a Cheerio.<br /><br />Visit Marian\'s site, <a href="http://www.quatrifolio.com/">Quatrifolio</a><br /><br />'
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entry[2] = {title: 'Incest',status: 'live',designer: 'Geoff Kaplan',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'geoff.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Other/self</b> by <a href=\"http://www.3st.com\">Robb Irrgang</a><br/><b>Untitled</b> by <a href=\"http://www.harshpatel.com\">Harsh Patel</a>',
bio: 'Geoff Kaplan of General Working Group has produced projects for range of academic and cultural institutions including MOCA, Walker Art Center, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cal Arts, and California College of the Arts. <br /><br />In addition, General Working Group is currently working on advanced interface issues for Nokia. His work is included in San Francisco\'s Museum of Modern Art\'s permanent collection and most recently included in Echirolles Poster Festival/California Dream exhibition in France and has been recognized by the American Center for Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, International Design, Graphis, and the film industry. <br /><br />Articles about his work have appeared in the international journals Eye, IdN, and I.D, to name a few. He received his MFA from Cranbrook and teaches in the Graduate Program of Design at CCA and travels nationally and abroad conducting workshops and lecturing about his work.<br /><br /><a href="http://generalworkinggroup.com/">Visit General Working Group</a><br /><br />'
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entry[3] = {title: 'Spaghetti Western',status: 'live',designer: 'Harsh Patel',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'harsh.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Untitled 1</b> by <a href="http://www.wearedebris.com">Shail Shah</a><br /><b>Untitled 2</b> by <a href="http://www.littledagger.org">Mikey Guidetti</a><br /><b>Untitled 3</b> by <a href="http://www.glitterlips.com">Ryan Waller</a><br /><b>Untitled 4</b> by <a href="http://www.wyethhansen.com">Wyeth Hansen</a><br /><b>Untitled 5</b> by <a href="http://www.harshpatel.com">Harsh Patel</a><br /><b>Untitled 6</b> by <a href="http://www.harshpatel.com">Harsh Patel</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Harsh Patel, 22, Texas.<br/><br/>Spaghetti Western was conceived as a modular alphabet with a series of alternate characters and a big set of \'drips\'. The idea of modularity in anything is interesting to  me, especially the appeal of being able to add and subtract from something as much or as little as you want to make something unique.  As OpenType and like-minded technologies continue to perfect and flourish, I\'m sure concepts similar to the controllable drippiness, messiness, and general squishiness of Spaghetti Western will translate into fantastic new developments for dynamic typefaces.<br/><br/>Thanks to Robb, Rick, and the Thirst family for inviting me into this project.<br/><br/><a href="http://harshpatel.com/">Visit HarshPatel.com</a><br /><br />'}

entry[4] = {title: 'Hillbilly',status: 'live',designer: 'Ewa Sarnacka-Powell',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'ewa.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Kora</b> by <a href="#" onclick="return false;">Mr. &amp; Mrs Powell</a><br /><b>Mr. &amp; Ms. Underestimated</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Robb Irrgang</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'From the land of grits, biscuits and Jesus<br /> I bring you "Hillbilly". <br /><br />Two years ago I moved from the glam, culture and entertainment of the big city to the silence of a big ol\' farm, where my husband and I live in a 1974 Airstream trailer and are occasionally awakened by a neighbors tractor. <br /><br />When I set out to do this project, I wasn\'t really sure I was going to find anything<br />original. Unlike the city, in my neck of the woods there are no ethnic and artsy neighborhoods. In fact, there aren\'t any neighborhoods at all - just farms, strip malls and chain stores. But to my surprise I found plenty of inspiration once I started looking for it. <br /><br />All the J\'s I found came from Jesus. That should tell you a little about where I live. And, by the way, a miracle has touched me here like the sun hits a sweet potato at harvest time. I\'ve managed to find a respectable and creative design studio in Lenoir, N.C. Who\'d a thunk it? <br /><br />Adopting the spirit of the south, I am saving for my first Camouflage hunting outfit and hoping our firstborn won\'t grow up to be a redneck.<br /><br /><br />'}

entry[5] = {title: 'Touchy-feely',status: 'live',designer: 'Rick Valicenti',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'rick.jpg',
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play_a: '<a href="#" onclick="showPlaypiece(\'/05/play/buttonpusher.jpg\'); this.blur(); return false"><img src="/05/play/t_buttonpusher.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" width="125" height="125" /></a>',
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play_text: '<b>Rick vs Jemma</b> by <a href="http://www.jemmagura.com/">Jemma Gura</a><br/><b>Thirst</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Rick Valicenti</a><br /><b>Button Pusher</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Rick Valicenti</a><br /><b>RVD Binder</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Rick Valicenti</a>',
bio: 'if you touch something<br />(it is likely)<br />someone will feel it.<br /><br />if you feel something<br />(it is likely)<br />someone will be touched.<br /><br />rick valicenti<br />2004<br /><br />&mdash;&middot;&mdash;<br /><br />I am reminded that no matter how smart and logical a design process sets out to be, design always seems shaped at some level by the subjective &mdash; the touchy-feely or human presence?<br /><br />With that spoken, it was time for me to respond to my own Play.04 brief through a set of illuminated characters designed to begin thoughts rather than (simply) sentences.<br /><br /> There are many ways to capture \'real human presence\' in design, some more obvious than others. The Touchy-Feely collection is my fingers painting the alphabet one letter at a time. Each swash was smeered on glass in front of a Sinar 4x5 outfitted with a high resolution Creo digital back. To capture the painted letter, the camera made three different scan R.G.B and as a result the unpredictable evidence of time and gravity create an iridescent  sheen In many situations.<br /><br />Sometimes as many as 5 different variations of each character were made. For this offering, I have prepared two for you to select from, however by shifting the hue , contrast or invert  adjustments the variations seem almost limitless.<br /><br />&mdash;&middot;&mdash;<br /><br />Rick is founder of Thirst, a firm devoted to art with function. His passion for design and embrace of new technologies made for a dynamic marriage of imagery and inspiration. Thirst\'s creative versatility continues to pursuit the elusive ideals of intelligence and beauty within today\'s world of commerce.<br /><br />Thirst\'s clients include Gilbert Paper, Fireorb, Holly Hunt, The Monocle Press, The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Herman Miller,  and Illinois Institute of Technology\'s College of Architecture.<br /><br />'
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entry[6] = {title: 'Politikal',status: 'live',designer: 'Nikola Djurek',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'nikola.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Flashcards</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Rick Valicenti &amp; Robb Irrgang</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Nikola Djurek, 27.<br /><br />About two years ago I started to take pictures of TV news from various TV channels with my digital camera. My collections now is thousands and thousands tv news pictures. Then I started to use this pictures in some political illustrations. I send some to Rick and he ask me If I won\'t to make 26 illustrated political character in which every letter have different theme, and that\'s how process started. Letters of not so civilized world that we are living.<br /><br />I was always in-love with type & graphic design. Graduated from University of Zagreb, Croatia, and Italian Academy of art and design, Italy. Currently at postgraduate MA course Type]Media in Hague, Netherlands.<br /><br />Thanks to Rick for invated me to project and give me very useful critique during process.<br /><br />'}

entry[7] = {title: 'Watch',status: 'live',designer: 'Anthony Angelos',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'angelo.jpg',
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play_l: '<a href="#" onclick="showPlaypiece(\'/07/play/rejects.jpg\'); this.blur(); return false"><img src="/07/play/t_rejects.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" width="125" height="125" /></a>',
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play_text: '<b>Rejects</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">John Pobojewski</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Imy name is Anthony Angelos<br />I\'m 27, and I used to collect banana spiders in Lake villa Illinois where I spent the greater part of my child hood. In my off time i drew all over everything and road a skateboard.<br /><br />I received both my degrees from Illinois state university. My undergraduate is in "general art" .. Essentially I was an unmotivated painter. My Masters is in Arts and Technology.<br />I am currently working for a great company called Teleologic in Atlanta Illinois. I am a learning architect and I try to learn something new everyday. Im a web-designer / illustrator for them.<br />Likes for me.. .. mild weather 65 - 75 is perfect / fog. new records.... veggie corn dogs.. a nice record on a Sunday. Learning new things.. Having fun.. and making the art!<br />dislikes.. hmm.. (I try to avoid things i don\'t like) so id guess working at places that dictate what you have to wear and how you should act and think.. and getting sick.<br />I am currently living with my girlfriend in Bloomington Illinois. We have 2 cats. Dr. Claw.. a.k.a. Mr. Damn it and little simone... a.k.a. the stinker.<br /><br /> I also make t-shirts and as much art as I can.<br /><br />... heres the names for the letters. I got the phobia names from the phobialist website.<br />a - ambivalence<br />b - Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets<br />c- Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns<br />d - depressed<br />e - Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror<br />f - frustrated<br />g - going on a safari<br />h- had a bit too much to drink<br />I - improper<br />j- jittery<br />k-kickin\' back<br />l-lack of interest<br />m- malevolent<br />n- neat-o<br />o- older than I am<br />p- possessed<br />q- questionable<br />r- rad<br />s- seiren<br />t- Taurophobia- Fear of bulls<br />u- upbeat, uplifted and uncontrolled<br />v- vengeance<br />w- Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft<br />x- Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow<br />y: yawn<br />z- Zoophobia- Fear of animals<br /><br />'}

entry[8] = {title: 'IHADADREAM',status: 'live',designer: 'Satoru Nihei',launch: 'n/a',pic: 'satoru.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Freedom/Fear</b> by <a href="http://www.beautifool.jp">Satoru Nihei</a><br /><b>IHAVEADREAM</b> by <a href="http://www.beautifool.jp">Satoru Nihei</a><br /><b>Fingerpointin\'</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">John Pobojewski/3ST</a><br /><b>Flyer ("found")</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Robb Irrgang</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Satoru had opportunity to meet Rick Valicenti from 3st in Chicago while Rick visited in Portland, Maine. Satoru admired Rick as a designer and wanted to take some time to talk to him. Rick, however, appeared to be pretty busy. Yet Satoru did not give up and kept talking to him. After trying to dodge Satoru for awhile, Rick gave up and started listening to him. Shortly after that, Satoru and Rick ended up working on a small design project together. Rick later thanked Satoru for reminding him to take the time to listen to people.<br /><br />Later Satoru e-mailed Rick a doodle of fingers making the word "PLAY"  Rick liked it and asked Satoru for the rest of the alphabet. IHADADREAMBLACK, and IHADADREAMWHITE are the results.<br /><br />Satoru was once hired by Gento Matsumoto, a designer, the art director and the founder of Saru Brunei Co., Ltd., in Tokyo. At that time, Satoru had not earned a degree in graphic design and didn\'t really know much about a graphic design business. After about 10 months of intense work at Saru Brunei, Satoru decided to come to America to expand his life experience.<br /><br />Satoru\'s work and any articles have never appeared in any national or international magazine or publication and he has never received any graphic design awards. He received an associate degree in painting from Musashino Art University in Tokyo and a BFA in graphic design with honors from Maine College of Art.<br /><br />Currently, Satoru resides and works in Portland, Maine as a designer.  He often sleeps in the studio.<br /><br />Visit Satoru\'s site, <a href="http://www.beautifool.jp">www.beautifool.jp</a><br /><br />'}

entry[9] = {title: 'Bodyface',status: 'live',designer: 'Kiyoka Katahira',launch: '10.27.04',pic: 'kiyoka.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>The Big Three</b> by <a href="http://www.thisredbox.com/">Kiyoka Katahira</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Kiyoka Katahira is a graphic designer, currently working at 2x4. She is living in Baltimore and New York.<br /><br />She has won many major design awards, such as the Art Directors Club, Silver and Distinctive Merit. the Type Directors Club, the Tokyo Type Directors Club, and more. Her article was recently featured in How magazine\'s "Five Fresh Designers to Watch".<br /><br />Visit Kiki\'s site, <a href="http://www.thisredbox.com/">THISREDBOX</a>.<br /><br />'}

entry[10] = {title: 'Impaired',status: 'live',designer: 'Gina Vieceli',launch: '11.09.04',pic: 'gina.jpg',
alpha2 : 'true',
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play_l: '<a href="#" onclick="showPlaypiece(\'/10/play/milwaukee.jpg\'); this.blur(); return false"><img src="/10/play/t_milwaukee.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" width="125" height="125" /></a>',
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play_text: '<b>AIGA Milwaukee</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Rick V &amp; Gina Vieceli</a>',
download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Gina Vieceli received her first real taste of the design world when she interned at RareAir Media in 1997. Entering the profession of design as a business intern, Gina could always  be found in the design studio. The following year she changed her major to Visual Communications at Northern Illinois University and began her pursuit as a graphic designer.<br /><br />At Northern Illinois University, she again interned at RareAir Media as well as NIU and Trittenhaus Design. After graduation she freelanced briefly and soon joined Thirst, the collaborative studio of Rick Valicenti. At Thirst her design work has published in Print, GDUSA, HOW and Faesthetic. Gina\'s contributions to the Thirst canon are included in their monograph, "Emotion as Promotion" to be published in early 2005.<br /><br /> Gina\'s work for Thirst clients, Holly Hunt, AIGA and DHLA has received recognition from the Type Directors Club of NY and awards of distinction from Fox River Paper. Recently promoted to Senior Designer, Gina personally services over 12 clients including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Gilbert Paper, DHLA, Holly Hunt, and Dragon Motor Sports.<br /><br />'}

entry[11] = {title: 'Graphonetic',status: 'live',designer: 'Alex Al-Hamdan',launch: '',pic: 'alex.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Happy Daze</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Robb Irrgang</a><br/><b>A tribute</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Robb Irrgang</a><br/>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'As told by Rick Valicenti:<br /> "In late September of 2004 I had the pleasure of addressing an architecture studio class at the University of Illinois, Chicago. My presentation of the collection of Playground experiments dovetailed with UIC\'s first architectural assignment of the fall semester - design an alphabet. <br /><br />On that day four studio classes had come together in a large forum space with their work already in progress mounted and ready for my comments. If they only knew I know nothing. Only one student continued the threads that day\'s conversation related to typography. His name is Alex Al-Hamdan, an architectural sophomore who\'s formative creative activities included designing and implementing street graffiti in both Kansas City and Chicago.<br /><br />Alex proposed a Playground \'04 alphabet made up the auditory expression of each letter. This vernacular voice from the street and intentional lack of immediate legibility is all part of Alex\'s purposeful context.<br /><br />While his formal constructions are quite architectural in their third dimension, Alex suggests that when designing his letter forms he relates his thought process more to playing chess; "I\'m always playing two moves at once-- the complex form itself and the relationships between the individual strokes." Hidden in Alex\'s methodology is a little secret he enjoyed sharing with me. "When I think about graffiti, I imagine letterforms having intercourse with one another." Regardless of what went into this work, Alex\'s magically playful alphabet will at least make for perfect coloring book pages for those of us in the suburbs.<br /><br />'}

entry[12] = {title: 'Mojave',status: 'live',designer: 'Rudy Vanderlans',launch: '',pic: 'rudy.jpg',
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play_text: 'Mojave moves&mdash;click on the letters below to play the the movie for that letter.<br/><a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/">Quicktime 7</a> is required.<br/><br/><a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'a\'); return false">A</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'b\'); return false">B</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'c\'); return false">C</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'d\'); return false">D</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'e\'); return false">E</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'f\'); return false">F</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'g\'); return false">G</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'h\'); return false">H</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'i\'); return false">I</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'j\'); return false">J</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'k\'); return false">K</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'l\'); return false">L</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'m\'); return false">M</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'n\'); return false">N</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'o\'); return false">O</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'p\'); return false">P</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'q\'); return false">Q</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'r\'); return false">R</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'s\'); return false">S</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'t\'); return false">T</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'u\'); return false">U</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'v\'); return false">V</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'w\'); return false">W</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'x\'); return false">X</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'y\'); return false">Y</a>, <a href="#" onclick="openVideo(\'z\'); return false">Z</a>',
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download: 'At the request of the designer, there are no downloadable files for this entry. However, all movies are viewable in the \'Play\' section.',bio: 'There\'s an old maxim in our profession stating that a design is well thought out if you can write down simple instructions to describe it. My very first typeface, Suburban, lived by this rule. Since I didn\'t know how to use a font creation program myself, I had to instruct my wife, Zuzana licko, to actually render the font. It was through the language of the instructions that the idea was manifested, which significantly influenced the look of the typeface.<br/><br/>With my second typeface, Mojave, I take the old maxim one step further. Here the instructions ARE the typeface.<br/><br/>Rudy VanderLans has been publishing Emigre magazine for the past 21 years. Parallel to this activity he has been busy photographing the Southern California landscape. He\'s always looking for opportunities to combine these two interests.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.emigre.com">emigre</a><br/><br/>'
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entry[13] = {title: 'ComeTogether',status: 'live',designer: 'Satoru Nihei',launch: '',pic: 'satoru2.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Bed sheet</b> by <a href="http://www.3st.com/">Rick Valicenti</a><br/><b>Fuck War</b> by <a href="http://www.beautifool.jp/">Satoru Nihei</a><br/><b>Rap or Die</b> by <a href="http://www.beautifool.jp/">Satoru Nihei</a>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Poor condoms, always in between us. Give them a voice. Raise awareness.  We all come together to help ourselves.<br/><br/>Hello!<br/><br/>Satoru is a graphic designer who is also known as Mr. Beautifool.<br/><br/>Here is a beautifool photograph of Satoru, but he\'s too shy to show you everything.<br/><br/>So far Satoru has owned 4 pairs of glasses, which have become part of his identity as well as the long hair he has had for over 15 years.<br/><br/>Satoru has been a big fan of new balance classic sneakers since he was a teenager.<br/><br/>Every time he wears them out, Satoru is just too sad to throw them away.<br/><br/>His sneakers are part of his life.<br/><br/>Satoru\'s dream job as a designer is to design an album cover for Dr. Dre because he can dig his music.<br/><br/>By the way, Satoru speaks almost perfect English and broken Japanese, and he was made in Japan.<br/><br/>Well, let\'s talk about design sometime.<br/><br/>Thanks.<br/>Satoru<br/><br/><a href="http://www.beautifool.jp">www.beautifool.jp</a><br/><br/>'
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entry[14] = {title: 'TypeJockey',status: 'live',designer: 'Andrea Tinnes',launch: '',pic: 'andrea.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Record Sleeve</b> by <a href="http://www.typecuts.com/">Andrea Tinnes</a><br/><b>Soundtracks</b> by <a href="http://www.typecuts.com/">Andrea Tinnes</a><br/>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'TJ alias Type Jockey is a litteral approach to the notion of playing. Instead of fixed letterforms a set of alphabetic structures allows the sampling and construction of a variety of typographic remixes. In this sense TJ is an instrumental device, a digital &raquo;TJing&laquo; tool everybody can play with to mix and compose lettershapes. With color as an additional design element there are plenty of different variations possible [the 26 characters shown at playground are just a selection out of many possible letter compositions].<br/><br/>TJ is an attempt to redefine letterforms in accoustic terms, reconsidering rhythm and sound, modulation and transformation, alluding to the aesthetics of electronic music.<br/><br/>TJ comes in 2 different font sets: background and alphabetical structures (14 fonts alltogether) which can be combined as well as superimposed.The overall design is based on a rigid grid with the size of a 1000 by 1000 em units divided by 40. All structures are  &raquo;synchronized&laquo; which makes it possible to play many  &raquo;tracks&laquo; simultaneously. The background structures fit together perfectly and form patterns when the pointsize equals the lineheight. Because of the systematic grid the the letterforms themselves are based on basic geometric shapes.<br/><br/>My focus hasn\'t been so much on the outer shape but more on the inner life of the letters and how background and foreground structeres interact.<br/><br/>Andrea Tinnes is a type and graphic designer based in Berlin. Her design practice is focused on client-based as well as self-initiated projects. Through her own label, typecuts, she publishes as well as promotes all her type designs.<br/><br/>In addition to her design practice Andrea teaches courses in type and typography at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts / Norway where she has a Professor II position.<br/><br/>Andrea\'s work has been featured in several publications, such as Graphic Design for the 21st century, &eacute;tapes: and EYE magazine and several exhibitions including the 22annual 100Show and Earthquakes and Aftershocks. She holds awards from the American Center for Design as well as red dot.<br/><br/>She has a degree in visual communication from the FH Rheinland-Pfalz Mainz and a MFA in graphic design from the California Institute of the Arts.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.typecuts.com">typecuts</a><br/><br/>'
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entry[15] = {title: 'Blue',status: 'live',designer: 'Michelle Bowers', launch: '', pic: 'michelle.jpg',
play_text: '<b>GVSU</b> by Michelle Bowers<br/><b>Dunk Me Under</b> by Michelle Bowers<br/>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Michelle is an Associate Professor in the Art and Design Department at Grand Valley State University, where she teaches graphic design. Recently she spent an academic sabbatical at the prestigious Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she studied with Elliott Earls.<br/><br/>Her work has been published and exhibited in this country and in Mexico, Germany, England and Denmark. She has received awards from The Type Directors Club, AIGA, HOW magazine, Step Inside Design, and Adobe magazine. Her design studio, Linchpin, specializes in work for arts, academic and nonprofit organizations. She has also taught in the design programs at The University of Arizona, and Plymouth State University/The University of New Hampshire.<br/><br/>&nbsp;<br/>'
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entry[16] = {title: 'GrabMe',status: 'live',designer: 'Andrew Byrom', launch: '', pic: 'andrew.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Grab Me</b> by Andrew Byrom',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Born: Liverpool, England (1971)<br/><br/>After graduating from the University of East London in 1996, Byrom worked briefly in the design department of Routledge, a leading academic book publisher. In 1997 he opened his own design studio in London and worked for various clients including Penguin Books, The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters, The Industrial Design Centre, Time Out Online and The Guardian Newspaper. Around this time he also began teaching graphic design at Croydon College. The next year he took teaching positions at The University of Luton and Central Saint. Martins.<br/><br/>Byrom moved to the states in 2000 to teach at Northern Illinois University. He now divides his time between teaching, designing for various clients and playing with his sons Auden and Louis. He has recently been commissioned to design tubs for Simply Organic yogurt, a tire wall design for Vogue Tyres and book cover designs for McGraw-Hill and The Electronic Literature Organization, at UCLA.<br/><br/>His design work has featured in Creative Review magazine, Print magazine, G1: New Dimensions in Graphic Design, edited by Neville Brody and Lewis Blackwell and 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 24.<br/><br/>His work has been exhibited in design shows across the US including The National Design Centre in New York and has been recognized with a Certificate of Excellence from the AIGA and Awards of Excellence from the Illinois Association of Museums.<br/><br/>As well as ongoing professional consulting, Byrom is currently working on several new typeface designs and a series of experimental type based children\'s stories.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.andrewbyrom.com">andrewbyrom.com</a><br/><br/>&nbsp;<br/>'
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entry[17] = {title: 'Commercial Alphabet',status: 'live',designer: 'Ed Fella', launch: '', pic: 'edfella.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Today is the end</b> by Satoru Nihei<br/><b>Give it up now</b> by Satoru Nihei',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Ed Fella is an artist, educator and graphic designer whose work has had an important influence on contemporary typography. He practiced professionally as a commercial artist in Detroit for 30 years before receiving an MFA in Design from the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1987. He has since devoted his time to teaching at the California Institute for the Arts and his own unique self-published work which has appeared in many design publications and anthologies. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award and in 1999 an Honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit. His work is in the National Design Museum and MOMA in New York. A recent monograph of his work, Letters on America, documents some of his extensive practice.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.edfella.com">edfella.com</a><br/><br/>&nbsp;<br/>'
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entry[18] = {title: 'Letter To Ed (Fella)',status: 'live',designer: 'Geoff Kaplan', launch: '', pic: 'geoff.jpg',
play_text: '<b>I wonder</b> by Satoru Nihei',
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play_l: '<a href="#" onclick="showPlaypiece(\'/18/play/iwonder.jpg\'); this.blur(); return false"><img src="/18/play/iwonder_t.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" width="125" height="125" /></a>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'A few years back when I moved to San Francisco Ed Fella gave me a going-away present. I neglected to write Ed a thank you note and the guilt has been festering. So here it is, my thank you: an entire alphabet, all 26, for all possible combinations of gratitude.<br/><br/>&mdash;<br/><br/>Geoff Kaplan of General Working Group has produced projects for range of academic and cultural institutions including MOCA, Walker Art Center, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cal Arts, and California College of the Arts. <br /><br />In addition, General Working Group is currently working on advanced interface issues for Nokia. His work is included in San Francisco\'s Museum of Modern Art\'s permanent collection and most recently included in Echirolles Poster Festival/California Dream exhibition in France and has been recognized by the American Center for Design, American Institute of Graphic Arts, International Design, Graphis, and the film industry. <br /><br />Articles about his work have appeared in the international journals Eye, IdN, and I.D, to name a few. He received his MFA from Cranbrook and teaches in the Graduate Program of Design at CCA and travels nationally and abroad conducting workshops and lecturing about his work.<br /><br /><a href="http://generalworkinggroup.com/">Visit General Working Group</a><br /><br />'
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entry[19] = {title: 'Jonana',status: 'live',designer: 'Jennifer Stucker', launch: '', pic: 'jenniferstucker.jpg',
play_text: '<b>"It" Girl</b> by Jennifer Stucker<br/><b>Seek Self</b> by Jennifer Stucker<br/><b>Sex A Peel</b> by Jennifer Stucker<br/>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Jonana was created after my trans-gender father who now lives life as Joanne. When my father was 60 (about 6 years ago) he announced to his family the lie he had been feeling his entire life.  In general, family members are embarrassed, uncomfortable and ashamed to talk about it, let alone tell the outside world. Even this submission has been a source of contention. Personally, however, Joanne\'s reveal has answered those painful questions about why my father divorced my mother when I was 7 and left me. Or why my father seemed to always be moving to so many cities to start all over again, each time a little further away.  So, in essence, the freeing of herself has set me free too.  I see the happiness in shedding your skin&hellip;whether physical, emotional, or psychological&hellip;and living your true self, hopefully it won\'t take all of us 60 years to do so.<br/><br/>So why bananas? Bananas are often perceived a male phallic symbol, however after the banana is removed the peel has very fluid, graceful and feminine curvatures but yet retains its male overtones. I also thought it was funny because the banana has been removed of its parts! The simplicity of the physical process in creating these forms is a bit ironic to the subject matter. No psychological counseling or hormonal therapy treatment was involved to make "the change." Take off peel, create form and scan, yep it was that easy.  Each form was created from a single banana\'s peel, however three bananas were utilized due to the quick browning process of the peels.<br/><br/>&mdash;<br/><br/>Currently I am pursuing my MFA in graphic design at Eastern Michigan University.<br/><br/>'
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entry[20] = {title: 'Motility',status: 'live',designer: 'David Powell', launch: '', pic: 'david.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Intelligent Design</b> by David Powell<br/><b>Out of Control</b> by David Powell',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'David Powell is from Sowega, USA. Raised in a suburban neighborhood carved from a pecan grove sandwiched between a B-52 base and a Nike Hercules missile installation his memories of his homeland are fraught with cold war memories of duck and cover. Escape and relief from this military/industrial milieu were provided by his studies at UGA where he obtained a BFA in painting.<br/><br/>Following this, the idealistic young painter crossed the ocean to the land of his forebearers, and spent a year making art for shows in London. Introduced to other expatriate artists from Austrailia, he did illustration work for the underground magazine OZ and liked the idea of seeing his work in print. Returning home to the states after this adventure, he formed Wonder Graphics with his old college pal Flournoy Holmes and they specialized in album cover art for several years.<br/><br/>Moving to Vermont in 1970, W. David founded Porcupine Graphix and worked mostly with regional clients like Ben & Jerry\'s and Vermont Castings. After working as Creative Director for a Computer Games Magazine for five years, In the new millennium, he made the decision to go to graduate school and enter teaching. He is now an Assistant Professor of Design at State University of New York at Plattsburgh. <br/><br/>He continues to exhibit his fine art and to do design work, primarily pro-bono work for Literary Journals.  He is currently working on a project that investigates pseudo-sciences like phrenology and archaic electrical medical devices. To some degree, this is an extension of his previous body of work, The Progress Report, a series of digital prints that encourages a second look at the theory of progress through science and engineering.<br/><br/><br/>'
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entry[21] = {title: 'Turrell',status: 'live',designer: 'Bob Aufuldish', launch: '', pic: 'bob.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Baby Suri</b> by Jennifer Mahanay<br/><b>I dig Bushwick</b> by Satoru Nihei',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Turrell is based on the letters I made for a book of my photos called 4 Projects in Progress. Since I was making a photography book, I wanted a way to make type so it functioned as typography and as image; the results are scanner photos. I cut each letter out of a sheet of paper with an x-axto, looking through extra strong reading glasses and trying to make each cut-out letter as small as possible. I scanned the result with black paper behind and redrew them. For the book, I cut each word separately, so all the letters are different. For Turrell, I chose my favorites from the book project and cut the remainder I needed.<br/><br/>I was going to call the type Oculus, but there are a number of fonts named that already. Visiting the new de Young in San Francisco, I saw a new James Turrell installation there and was reminded of his use of openings to the sky.<br/><br/>Bob is a partner in Aufuldish & Warinner, an Associate Professor at the California College of the Arts, and runs a type foundry, fontboy.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.aufwar.com/">aufwar.com</a><br/><a href="http://www.fontboy.com/">fontboy.com</a><br/><br/>'
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entry[22] = {title: 'Reminders',status: 'live',designer: 'Harsh Patel', launch: '', pic: 'harsh2.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Vodiak</b> by Harsh Patel',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',bio: 'Reminders - A Modular Alphabet experiment<br/><br/>The alphabet is called "Reminders", referring to stray hairs you find and who they might belong to. Starting with loose, vector-drawn hairs, the user can arrange them to form any feasible letter-form. As singular elements, they can be used simply as ornamentation;  each hair is detailed down to its follicle.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.harshpatel.com/">harshpatel.com</a><br/><br/><br/>'
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entry[23] = {title: 'Limited Adornment',status: 'live',designer: 'Guang Yu', launch: '', pic: 'guang.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Newspaper Ad</b> by Guang Yu',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Recently, my  sketch books have been filled with automatic .05 pt pen drawings harkening back to the Peterson Writing Method which dominated elementary school lessons of penmanship in the early 50\'s. Now some 48 years later, i have returned to my own age of innocence with a pen and a pixel through turbulence.<br/><br/>John Pobojewski, brilliant Thirst collaborator was asked to create a custom scriptographer tool which allows me and anyone else to scribble away once connecting any two points plotted on a page.<br/><br/>it should be noted that the layering of these files letter upon letter make for a beautiful, yet barely legible, impression. try it!<br /><br />&mdash;&middot;&mdash;<br /><br /><b>Rick Valicenti</b> is the founder and design director of Thirst. In October, Rick will be awarded the prestigious aiga medal, the highest honor in the field of graphic design, for his sustained contribution to design excellence and development of the profession. Rick is also a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internationale) and became an aiga/Chicago Chapter Fellow in 2004. His work has been published in practically every major graphic design publication. Cover stores include Eye.06 (London), Emigr&eacute; (twice), Step and Idea (Tokyo).  Recent book publications include Phaidon\'s Area 10x10 (published late 2003), Graphic Radicals by Katherine McCoy and Typography One by Rick Poyner. A 356-page monograph on the Thirst work has been published by the Monacelli Press and released in 2005 titled, Emotion as Promotion.<br/><br/>Rick has lectured on four continents and for the past decade. He has contributed his time and energies to college and high school students in the form of workshops, personal critiques and conversation about design and professional practice.<br/><br/><b>John Pobojewski</b> is focused on connecting humanity back into the world through design. His work emphasizes and explores relevant beauty in print, interactive, identity, and online experiences. He is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with degrees in music performance and visual communications. In 2000, he co-founded the premier percussion quartet Base4, a chamber group featuring Western and non-Western percussion accompanied by visual multimedia.<br/><br/>During his time at Thirst with Rick Valicenti, John has worked with the College of Creative Studies, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of Technology, among others. Recent awards include step design 100, featuring the best designs of 2004 and 2005, and the Graphis Poster Annual 2006.<br /><br />'
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entry[25] = {title: 'Untitled',status: 'live',designer: 'Nikola Djurek', launch: '', pic: 'nikola2.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Letters Are Sexy 1/2</b> by Satoru Nihei',
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bio: '26 letters on old green monitor.<br/><br/>These 26 letters were made with Python<br/>using <a href="http://drawbot.com/" target="_new">DrawBot</a>.<br/><br/>Nikola is the principal of typonine, a typo&graphic design studio based in Croatia<br/>and The Netherlands.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.typonine.com" target="_new">typonine</a>'
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entry[26] = {title: 'Catenary',status: 'live',designer: 'Matt Daly', launch: '', pic: 'mdaly.jpg',
play_text: 'Play coming soon.',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Matt Daly defines his work as a spectrum of ideas and design, abstracted from the confines of a particular medium or technology. After completing his degree in fine art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Matt went to work in the high-end commercial broadcast industry serving in roles ranging from animation to supervising technical direction, as well as performing miscellaneous creative software and electronic engineering tasks. Matt is in the unique position of being an artist fluent in the varied languages of technology.'};

entry[27] = {title: '3Pix',status: 'live',designer: 'Melle Hammer', launch: '', pic: 'melle.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Untitled</b> by Melle Hammer<br/><b>Re-visited</b> by Satoru Nihei<br/><b>09.11.06</b> by Satoru Nihei',
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bio: '"It is not wise to carelessly throw a handful of twigs, stones, shells into the air. You might end up with the shape of a serpent or with several characters&hellip;a sentence in the grass."'
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entry[28] = {title: 'Roe V Wire',status: 'live',designer: 'Jennifer Stucker', launch: '', pic: 'jenniferstucker.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Back-street abortion</b> and <br/><b>Walmart sucks</b> by Jennifer Stucker',
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play_a: '<a href="#" onclick="showPlaypiece(\'/28/play/walmart.jpg\'); this.blur(); return false"><img src="/28/play/t_walmart.jpg" alt="" title="" border="0" width="125" height="125" /></a>',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Roe V Wire was inspired by my concern over George W. Bush\'s recent opportunities to nominate new supreme court justices and the potential judicial infliction these nominations could have on the 1973 ruling of Roe V. Wade.  Throughout time,  women of higher status (for their own reasons) have been just as likely to have an abortion as with other classes of women, but their economic means have afforded them a secretive and professional resolve, even though prior to 73\' they were breaking the law as well.  The Roe V. Wade decision protects women and maintains our isonomy &ndash; the equal distribution of rights and privileges.<br/><br/>Roe V Wire is a reminder of the brutal style of abortions women outside of wealth and power experience. "Back-street" and self-induced abortions worldwide cause 30-50% of all maternal deaths from pregnancy and childbirth. Other complications include: punctured intestines,  perforations leading to internal hemorrhaging, infection of fallopian tubes or ovaries,  fetal malformation, and laceration of the cervix or vagina.<br/><br/>All of the mangled letter forms were bent by hand using one hanger for each character. The forms are awkward and uncomfortable which is a common feeling to many when discussing the subject. Appropriately fitting, the letters were physically painful to form which left my hands red and raw.<br/><br/>The piece titled "Wal-Mart Sucks" changes the context of the wire hangers to that of cheap clothes. I  chose this statement due to Wal-Mart\'s large economic support of the Republican Party, who as we all know, does not support the Roe V. Wade decision. (Plus, Wal-Mart sucks for many other reasons too!)<br/><br/>Currently I am pursuing my MFA in graphic design at Eastern Michigan University.<br/><br/>'
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entry[29] = {title: 'Worm Lovers',status: 'live',designer: 'Mizutani Salucoro', launch: '', pic: 'tiger_salucoro.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Love</b>, <b>Happy</b> and <b>Cheer</b><br/>by Mizutani Salucoro',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Mizutani Salucoro is an Illustrator, caricaturist, and graphic designer living in Tokyo.<br/><br/>She makes graphic, illustration or  design with "KAWAII" as a theme, which is the Japanese sense of "cute."<br/><br/>This is the worm font.  They are cute and somewhat silly lovers dancing and making love in the garden.  They may look dirty, but it depends on how you look at it.  It\'s OK, because they are madly in love.<br/><br/>Salu Pro<br/><a href="http://www.salu-pro.com">http://www.salu-pro.com</a>'
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entry[30] = {title: 'Masticor',status: 'live',designer: 'Jackson John Showalter-Cavanaugh', launch: '', pic: 'jackson.jpg',
play_text: '',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. It turns out that Jackson is not a very good writer.<br/><br/>Jackson works at VSA Partners in Chicago. He learned about design at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit and spends most of his free time talking about fonts, baseball uniforms, and Scandinavian pop bands to uninterested people on myspace.'
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entry[31] = {title: 'Counterhand',status: 'live',designer: 'FWIS', launch: '', pic: 'fwis.jpg',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Fwis is a graphic design collective with three partners: Ben, Eric, and Chris. It was founded in Portland, Oregon in 2003 but now has an office in Denver. They specialize in brand development, book covers, and million-dollar ideas. Are you up to your nostrils in venture capital? Fwis are the guys for you. I need a new piggy bank. Money is fun! Check out <a href="http://covers.fwis.com">covers.fwis.com</a> for book cover reviews, or build a paper robot at <http://www.readymech.com">readymech.com</a>. BEWARE the <a href="http://www.iwasateenage.com">SQUAREWOLF!</a><br/><br/>Ben Pieratt is from Brazil and lives in Denver, CO. He lives with his photopsychologist wife, and his  dog. One time Ben tried to kern the letters on his keyboard.<br/><br/>Eric Jacobsen is from Bagdad, and currently lives in Portland. For a writer, he\'s a really good programmer. He suffers from occasional delusions of mediocrity.<br/><br/>Chris Papasadero was kicked out of a certain Pacific Northwest art college for an unfortunate incident involving an electroencephalogram and a mentally incapacitated staff member. Chris came up with this typeface when he mistook his own brilliance for someone else\'s.<br/><br/>Do YOU need graphic brilliance, or a list of punitive insults? "Fwis: We\'ll Put Our Best Brains On It!&trade;"<br/><br/><a href="http://www.fwis.com/">fwis.com</a><br/><br/>'
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entry[32] = {title: 'Helvetica Memory',status: 'live',designer: 'Mike Essl', launch: '', pic: 'essl.jpg',
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play_text: '<b>Apologies to Lars M&uuml;ller</b>, <b>Helvetica Googlisms</b> by Mike Essl',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'As we roll up to the 50th anniversary of Helvetica I wondered if I could draw it from memory. Giving myself only a set cap-height and baseline I drew Helvetica with a red pencil. No corrections, no starting over, no "do overs," what you see is what you get. Some of the proportions are off and some are shockingly accurate. For better or worse Helvetica is etched into my memory.<br/><br/>Mike Essl was a partner at the award-winning design firm The Chopping Block, Inc., which he cofounded in 1996. After receiving his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Mike went out on his own and is now an assistant professor at the Cooper Union. Essl maintains two websites, <a href="http://mike.essl.com">mike.essl.com</a>, a blog and portfolio of his work; and <a href="http://www.mrtandme.com">mrtandme.com</a>, a site dedicated to the man with the gold.<br/><br/>'
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entry[33] = {title: 'EXP 26',status: 'live',designer: 'Mark Jamra', launch: '', pic: 'jamra.jpg',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Mark Jamra is a type designer, typographic designer and Associate Professor at Maine College of Art in Portland, ME. He has designed and produced typefaces for over 20 years. He has run his own design practice for 15 years and is also a partner in Alice Design Communication, a collective of communication designers and specialists in Portland. His typeface designs include: Alphatier, Brynmorgen Greek, Expo Sans, Quelle Bold (a proprietary font for Europe\'s largest mail-order company), Latienne, ITC Jamille, Tacitus and Kinesis, an Adobe Original. His lettering and typefaces have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including "About Faces: Contemporary Issues in Type Design" at Harvard\'s Houghton Library and in the Graphic Design Biennale in Brno, Czech Republic. In 2001, Alphatier and Kinesis were chosen as winners in the Association Typographique Internationale\'s first international typeface design competition. In 2002, Alphatier was selected as one of 17 typefaces to represent the best in type design of the year 2001 by the Type Directors Club of New York in their annual competition. The same honor was bestowed upon Expo Sans in 2003.<br/><br/>Mark received his BFA in graphic design at Kent State University and completed his graduate studies in 1983 at the School of Design in Basel, Switzerland. He has lectured and published essays on type and typography, and taught letterform design and history at the Hamburg University of Applied Arts and Sciences and at the Polytechnic in Kiel. He has been a typographic consultant to the Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories in Bristol, England and for URW Software & Type GmbH in Hamburg, Germany where he lived and worked as a designer from 1984 to 1995. His work and writing have been published in various international periodicals and books including "Graphis Typography 1", "Visual and Technical Aspects of Type" from the Cambridge University Press and "Language Culture Type" from Graphis / Association Typographique Internationale.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.typeculture.com">typeculture</a><br/><br/>'
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entry[34] = {title: 'Recroom',status: 'live',designer: 'Damien Correll', launch: '', pic: 'damien.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Plaything</b> by Damien Correll',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Damien Correll is a 24 year old freelance designer living/working in Brooklyn, NY. He has had his work featured in Complex Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Faesthetic, Swindle Quarterly and most recently has been profiled in STEP Magazine\'s Field Guide to Emerging Design Talent 2007.<br/><br/>Recroom was created with assembled old found objects and toys which. The idea of creating an alphabet out of these random bits comes directly from my childhood process of "play". The only toys I really liked as a child were the ones that helped me make other toys.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.damiencorrell.com">damiencorrell.com</a></br><br/> '
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entry[35] = {title: 'UNO',status: 'live',designer: 'Paul Sych', launch: '', pic: 'sych.jpg',
play_text: '<b>Uno</b> by Paul Sych',
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download: 'Playground contributions are available for download for a month. This typeface is therefore no longer available for download, but will be available in the upcoming Playground Book. Keep checking the website for updates on the book.',
bio: 'Over the past two decades Paul Sych has had a curiosity for the relationship between art and music. This interplay began while studying at the Ontario College of Art and Design and York University\'s prestigious jazz program in Toronto, Canada. After completing his studies in the early 80\'s, Paul pursued his passion for jazz and performed professionally as a jazz guitarist exploring the art of improvisation. During this decade of creative exploration by means of practicing design, performing music, and early typographic discoveries, Paul decided to launch his own design firm Faith in the fall of 1990 as a platform for experimentation.<br/><br/>Paul has challenged both clients and peers alike to enter his world of unique and sometimes flamboyant use of type and imagery. In addition to being commissioned by legendary designers, art directors, educators and forums on typography internationally, his work has been widely published in North America, Europe and Asia over the last two decades. Paul continues to explore visual and typographic works in print, branding, public art, motion graphics and broadcast design. Bringing his experience to the design industry Paul\'s playfulness and meaningfulness with design has come full circle as he currently teaches typography and design at the Ontario College Of Art & Design and York University.<br/><br/>Quoting the late design historian Philip B. Meggs; "Sych\'s pulled and twisted letterforms, densely layered and imploding into complex masses teeming with perpetual energy, lose their identity as alphabetic glyphs. His work raises the question: Where does typography cease to be typography and become, perhaps, art?"<br/><br/><a href="http://www.faith.ca/">Faith</a><br/><br/> '
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entry[36] = {title: 'Phonic',status: 'live',designer: 'John Pobojewski', launch: '', pic: 'johnp.jpg',
play_text: 'Play to follow.',
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bio: '<b>Phonic</b> is a sonic alphabet & virtual language: 26 short vocalizations using rendered sounds of English speech are cued by the keyboard to create a unique sonic landscape. A visual presentation plots grid-based glyphs shaped from the waveform produced by each sonic letter. As one types words and phrases, a new virtual language is spoken back; translated into songs and shapes that feel sometimes ambient, sometimes inspired, sometimes foolish. Phonic was built with <a href="http://www.processing.org">Processing</a> and <a href="http://sonia.pitaru.com">Sonia</a>.<br/><br/>Explore the shapes and sounds in the <a href="#" onclick="showLetters(36); return false">\'Letters\'</a> section; clicking on a letter will zoom in and play the audio.<br/><br/>&mdash;<br/><br/>John Pobojewski is a graphic designer / artist / programmer / musician who seeks to express humanity in design through creating connections. John is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication and a Bachelor of Music in Performance. At Thirst, in collaboration with Rick Valicenti, he has served clients including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, Herman Miller, Wright Auctions, and many others.<br/><br/>As a designer, John has received recognition from STEP 100, The Type Directors Club of New York, and Graphis, and his work has appeared in Print and I.D. Magazine. In 2006, He received recognition as one of Print Magazine\'s New Visual Artists: 20 under 30. He has lectured at Northern Illinois University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and has judged  design competitions including the Type Directors Club TDC 53.<br/><br/>As a musician, John is a founding member of the <a href="http://www.base4percussion.com" target="_new">Base4 Percussion Quartet</a>, a chamber group that performs modern percussion literature in cutting-edge performances featuring interactive visuals. The group’s debut CD, [one], was released in 2003.<br/><br/>'
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bio: 'Paula Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and began her graphic design career as a record cover art director at both Atlantic and CBS Records in the 1970s. In 1984 she co-founded Koppel & Scher, and in 1991 she joined Pentagram as a partner.<br/><br/>Paula has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a wide range of clients. Drawing from what Tom Wolfe has called the “big closet” of art and design history, classic and pop iconography, literature, music and film, Paula creates images that speak to contemporary audiences with emotional impact and appeal. Three decades into her career, these images have come to be visually identified with the cultural life of New York City.<br/><br/>Paula is a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and a past recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. She has served on the national board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and in 2001 she was awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in recognition of her distinguished achievements and contributions to the field. She holds an honorary doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and she currently serves on the board of directors of The Public Theater. She is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI).<br/><br/>Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Denver Art Museum, the Museum für Gestaltung Z&uuml;rich, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Her teaching career includes over two decades at the School of Visual Arts, along with positions at the Cooper Union, Yale University and the Tyler School of Art. In 2002 Princeton Architectural Press published her career monograph Make It Bigger.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.pentagram.com/">Pentagram</a><br/><br/>'
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bio: 'Hundreds of dollars in various sassy under things - from practical to plaything, Panty Raid is composed of bras, panties, pasties, teddies, and neglig&eacute;s. The final character set even includes the nipple-less bra and crotch-less panty.<br/><br/>The extravagant, almost ridiculous, nature of these under things was a siren\'s folly calling out for us to play, and in doing so see these forms as letters which in the end make up this font.<br/><br/>We tossed these under things into the air so they would fall under the camera\'s lens with the desire that they would naturally form letters and punctuation with their straps, seams and panels of coverage. The process, albeit for font-making purposes, was physically no different than the thoughtless creation of that haphazard pile of underwear in the corner of the a dorm bedroom, or the impassioned shedding of the final undergarment in the heat of it all! And as if by magic, virtually all of the letters seemed to form themselves. As one might expect, the occasionally illegible \'toss\' did need to be molded touched and fondled–but just barely.<br/><br/>&mdash;<br/><br/>Gina Vieceli joined Thirst in 2002. At Thirst her design work has published in Print, GDUSA, How, Faesthtic and Rick Valicenti\'s Playground. Gina\'s contributions to the Thirst canon are included in Emotion as Promotion, to be published in early 2005. Recently promoted to Senior Designer, Gina personally services over 12 clients including Lyric Opera of Chicago, Gilbert Paper, DHLA, Holly Hunt, and Dragon Motor Sports.<br/><br/>&mdash;<br/><br/>Jennifer Mahanay graduated in 2007 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with degrees in both photography and graphic design. For two summers before graduating, Jennifer had the privilege of interning with Thirst. Fresh out of college, Jennifer is working for Wright, an auction house in Chicago specializing in 20th century art and design. <br/><br/>Jennifer has been featured in Print Magazine\'s Regional Design Annual, STEP Inside Design\'s 100 Best Designs, and Type Directors Club.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.3st.com">3st.com</a><br/><a href="http://www.jennifermahanay.com">jennifermahanay.com</a><br/><br/>'
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bio: 'Dawn\'s always believed the most effective communication comes from culturally-relevant design. So she started Firebelly to prove honesty and authenticity could answer mainstream businesses needs. With a passion for straight lines, social justice and old copy machines, she\'s been producing powerful, thought provoking work ever since.<br/><br/>Reflecting her natural obsession for arranging unique pieces to create a more beautiful whole, Dawn\'s studio is an assemblage of amazingly talented people who understand the importance of collaboration. Humanity finds its way into all the work; everyone at Firebelly talks with their hands, thinks with their heart and goes with their gut.<br/><br/>Naturally, Dawn\'s leadership and creative direction distills all of Firebelly\'s diverse styles into a potent shot of design goodness. Serving an ever-broadening list of industries, the studio has grown in both size and reputation and its portfolio and client list prove feel-good, do-good work can yield beautiful, bountiful results.<br/><br/>Furthering her commitment to socially conscious causes, in 2003 Dawn decided to create the annual Firebelly Design & Marketing Grant which provides an entire year of strategy, design and development to one nonprofit—completely free of charge.<br/><br/>Outside of Firebelly, Dawn is a savior of stray pups, mentor to young designers and vegetarian chef to her lucky dinner guests (none of whom will ever see her secret recipes).<br/><br/><a href="http://www.firebellydesign.com">firebelly design</a><br/><br/>'
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