The great thing about sites like Amazon.com is that I can pre-order something, and have it be a little surprize waiting for me when I get home some day. That is the case with the book ABC3D that I received a few days ago.
This is a really fun book. There are really interesting ways that Marion Bataille, the author, chose to represent the alphabet in pop-up form. I got really excited by some of these letterforms, and you can see why here:
On a side note, there was another video dealing with giving letterforms a three-dimensional shape:
There is just something beautiful about typography, don’t you think?
As a side note, here is one of my first motion assignments, where I had to find a way to transition between a number and a letter.