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hi! i’m Tom, founder and creative director of POKE.  i live in CT, work in NYC, munch on tasty digital cookies, collect lunchboxes, take lots of photos and buy lots of t-shirts.  mmm…cookies. i’m passionate about creating a safe internet for kids, cookies, really great Italian cooking, all kinds of dogs, digital photography and the power of technology and how it affects our daily lives. i’d love to tell you i read a lot - but i just don’t. so there. Psychotic.

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this is just awesome


So I found this site today. There is something about this app that celebrates Typography in every way my brain is inclined to see it. Play with it…and don’t forget to enter your own letters. Really amazing stuff - for such a simple toy.

Typography is a special thing for me. I wouldn’t say I’m the best Typographer - far from it. But I am always fascinated by typefaces and their relationship to how expressive a designer can be in any medium. I’ve found over the years (and it has always amazed me) how certain designers can really have communion with Typography while other so called “Designers” don’t even scratch the surface. To me, Typography is something that appeals to all senses. It’s a design adventure. (Just ask my buddy Erok (and his Typography Friday experiments.

Reader Comments (3)

Great find Tom - I took a screencapture and stuck it here http://bit.ly/fontpark

jeremy
September 17, 2008 | Unregistered Commenterjeremyet
Great site. Great find. I too love typography in an almost fetishistic way. Looking forward to spending time with this app tonight.

Thx again Tom.

Brad
September 17, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterBradley Kay
Tom,

You just saved my life! I'm taking a graphic design class and my first assignment (due in 3 hours), is a typograhpy poster. The image I just made on here is far better than what I was monkeying around with all day yesterday!

Gracias!
Kory
September 18, 2008 | Unregistered CommenterKory Bilowus

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