Digital Type Live (ca 1998)

I invited 70 guests to enscribe Japanese letterforms on separate sheets of grid paper where a specific character was given as the drawing target. This took roughly 1 hour. Then, I scanned them all onto a flatbed scanner, and then converted all the handwritten letterforms into a custom JAVA-based typesetting system for Japanese. It was a workshop hosted at Ginza Graphic Gallery and it ran roughly from 4PM to 10PM. Folks were super tired (including me), but it was fun to see the experiment come together as an attempt to show the power of *people*.