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Kiwi Media Presents...
Another in the series of musical fonts.
Ultraworld is a font based on the logo of the more recent projects by The Orb,
the british ambient techno band. It's big, it's round, and it looks pretty
cool italicised or outlined (or both).
I've been asked why I do so many album cover fonts. Well, aside from the fact
that I listen to a lot of CDs, I find that some of the best graphic design (and
subsequently type design) ends up on the covers of various albums.
And now the pitiful shareware plea: please send me money. $5 would be nice.
Whatever you can muster. As I usually say, the adoration of countless women
and interantional fame and fortune would be nice if you can send that, but I'll
settle for email if it's all you can afford. To contact me about my snailmail
address (which changes occasionally) send me email at:
wonko@dax.cs.wisc.edu
So what's with this Kiwi thing? Kiwi Media is a little computer arts group I
formed in the mid eighties so I had something to put in the credits for the
Apple // animations that I had been working on. Since that time, it has grown
to encompass almost two people and hold assets in the dozens of dollars.
I'm also going to plug the UPL shamelessly right here: The UPL is the
University of Wisconsin's CS Undergraduate Projects Lab. It is a completely
student administrated and coordinated computer lab, a place for students
interested in learning programming and system administration can work
independently in an environment conducive to such activities. We currently
have three workstations (two DEC 5000s and an HP 9000) and two old HP's that we
use for XTerms. If you know of any group interested in donating equipment or
money to this lab, which is one of only a handful of such labs in the world,
please contact me. All our equipment is donated, and we are completely
non-profit (all time and effort is donated too).
Ok, enough of that. Here's a list of fonts currently in existence that are
made by Kiwi media:
Devotion: A font based on the brushstroke handwriting on the cover of dM's
"Songs of Faith and Devotion."
Erasure: based on the curvy sans outline font on the cover of recent erasure
albums.
SinGothic: A cool fractured font extrapolated from the cover of the NIN "Sin"
single.
Ambient: A small-caps based on the writing on Moby's "Ambient" album.
Ultraworld: A bold, rounded font based on the logo of the ambient techno
band, The Orb.
Technobats: a collection of 26 dingbats, logoes of
techno/industrial/synthpop bands and some of their record labels.
Non-album cover fonts:
Bajoran: The title font from Deep Space Nine.
Trekbats: A truly staggering array of trek logoes and emblems, including small
pictures of various starships.
Kroebern: A script font taken from the 18th century script found on german
manuscripts and official records.
Non-Fonts:
Starships volume 1: A collection of Infini-D 2.0 starship models that look
neat but render quickly and have enough space left over for customization.
Warbird: A short quicktime movie of a Romulan Warbird decloaking. Rendered.
Predator: A klingon bird of prey flies over and fires. A short rendered
QT movie.
The Substandard Model, A Ridiculously Short History of Time, and Chaos in
Everyday Life: The definitive physics humour trilogy. PS files.
Thanks for your support, and watch for more interesting and unusual fonts and
such from Kiwi Media. Suggestions and comments are appreciated.