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Pilowlava

Unique handmaid machine product

pilowlava regular 1

Designed by

Anton Moglia, Jérémy Landes, with the contribution of Maksym Kobuzan

Styles

  • pilowlava regular 1

Writing systems

Date

Initialy published on April 26, 2019 and updated on May 24, 2023

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Pilowlava (sic) was born as an intuitive, fast-paced creative feedback loop in which its creators tried to surprise one another. The result is a typeface that recalls cooled lava flows drawn with a compass. Striving to please both of its parents, Pilowlava seeks a balance between viscous energy and controlled geometry. This geometric approach lies on the shoulders of researches conducted by Swiss designer Armin Hofmann in his Graphic Design Manual edited in 1965. The structures of its glyphs are mostly derived from hand-written dynamics, that feed from both calligraphic and graffiti references. All these sweet inconsistencies produce a vacillating, fluctuating typographic colour, embodied by the almost-mathematical tension of its curves. Under a hardened crust, Pilowlava awaits the smallest temperature rise to recover its viscosity. The alternate shapes of certain letters play out these thermic accidents and raise the temperature of the text.

It takes its name from lava pillows, a natural phenomenon that is produced when lava is expelled by an underwater volcano, or when the lava flows of an emerged volcano encounter a body of water. In contact with the water, the lava flow is so hot that it's coated in a glass film. As it isn't totally cooled down, it transforms into smooth pillows that continue to slowly grow. This way, lava creates tubes and viscous balls that pile up and shape one another, and then they aggregate in puffy clusters that can measure several meters.

Pilowlava is available at Velvetyne from today on. It's cost-free and it can be freely used, modified and distributed for all of your burning needs.

On December 2020, we released a fork of Pilowlava by Vincent Wagner where most glyphs have been modelled in 3D to be used in 3D environments. Get more details and download these mesh files here.

Maksym Kobuzan drew the beautiful and sensible Cyrillic version which was added in March 2022.

Pilowlava got featured in Typographica's favourite typefaces of 2019. Read the article.

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Кульова лава (подушкова лава, ґлобулярна лава, піллоу-лава) — лава, що застигла у вигляді подушковидних тіл (має кульову або подушкоподібну окремість).
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. As a second meaning, the fact that nearby phase front distortions of an optical wave are more severe than remote distortions of the same amplitude is called shower-curtain effect.
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Утворюється при підводних та підлідних виверженнях (особливо при невеликій швидкості виливу). Ймовірно, найпоширеніший тип застиглої лави на Земл. Розмір, форма та будова «подушок» дуже різноманітні. Вони можуть нагадувати амеб, буханки, короваї, балони, матраци, кулі, плоско-опуклі лінзи і зазвичай сполучені перемичками, утворюючи ланцюжки та нагромадження. Розмір «подушок» найчастіше лежить у межах від десятків сантиметрів до кількох метрів. Характерні ознаки подушкової лави — темна склувата кірка, вкрита борозенками, розколювання за радіальними тріщинами та схильність до утворення нагромаджень з крутими схилами.
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. As a second meaning, the fact that nearby phase front distortions of an optical wave are more severe than remote distortions of the same amplitude is called shower-curtain effect.
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower.
In physics, the shower-curtain effect is the phenomenon in which a shower curtain gets blown inward with a running shower. The problem of the cause of this effect has been featured in Scientific American magazine, with several theories given to explain the phenomenon but no definite conclusion. As a second meaning, the fact that nearby phase front distortions of an optical wave are more severe than remote distortions of the same amplitude is called shower-curtain effect.
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