A photo showing a plastic dinosaur eating a plastic toy soldier and some blue and white ribbons.
An image of plastic soldiers spread across what looks like a ribbon seashore with the colored text: Hots Not Coo.
An opened book with a banner that show plastic soldiers on a seashore.

Into the Third Dimension

May 06 2010

Steve Haslip and Steven Smith (both MFAD ’09) created this dimensional typographic phrase for William Safire’s New York Times Magazine column “On Language,” an exhibition of which is on view at the New York Times Building, now through May.

“When Steve and I get together, we tend to revert to our eight-year old selves,” says Smith. “If there’s a design problem that can be solved with the judicious use of robots, we’ve tried it.” The letter forms here are constructed out of Lego bricks, Play-Doh, rubber snakes, a basketball and construction paper. “Add to that some army men, a T-Rex and a tinsel ocean and you’ve got yourself a typographic Normandy Beach fit for the Old Gray Lady,” he adds.

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