New Hairy Leg Font

Upper Case hair font.

Artists - much like some blog writers - are always looking for the next big thing to copy. Others... they like to break new ground.

When challenged by her Department of Design professors at Tama Art University located in Hachioji, Tokyo to crteate a new typography font without the use of computers, Japanese design student Kanazawa Mayuko (surname first), 20, must have thought about ripping her hair out of her head.

Lower Case hair font.

Possibly saying screw 'Helvetica', 'Trebuchet' and 'Georgia', she created a font out of hair.

First off, she did not use her own hair, eschewing ego and using the leg hair from a male friend. According to Kanazawa, she was inspired after a male friend  complained to her about a pain in his leg. Her inspiration was yo use his pain for her gain and create a font by forming leg hair into the English alphabet in both the upper and lowers case.

No one is saying how she formed the letters, but one would assume a large magnifying glass and some tweezers might be involved. Possibly hair spray to make sure it stayed in place. Oh, and a camera to prove she could rise up to the school work challenge.

As part of the challenge, she used the hair font to create an ad for Adidas - not a real ad, just a mock up (see below).

While it is a cool mock-up, I think she needs to trim some of the font. There's no need for all of that gray above the letters... and perhaps she could have blended the background colors to make it appear more natural. Ah... but I nit pick... perhaps that's something I should not do with her hair font.

Will she create a katakana (72 letters), hiragana (72 letters) or if she has enough time left in her life to create a kanji (1945 to be literate, though there may be over 6,000 in total) alphabet out of the boringly named Leg Hair font?  


Japan - It's A Wonderful Rife isn't sure if she plucked a hair from her friend and then manipulated it into the desired shape and then placed or stuck it back on the friend or if she merely did so while the hair was still alive on the leg. One thing this blog will say is that despite a deft talent, Kanazawa has created a hair-raising font even I'm sure I don't want to ever see used.

Maybe.    

I wonder if she should have called it the Hairy Bella-font-A?


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By Andrew Joseph