Urbanized Typeface consists of the font named city name and Audio Visual installation which is archiving the process of making. The method of making the font is quite physical.

There are many fonts named as the city name inside machintosh manily and also PCs. This is the reason for many cases that why it named as the city name is just quite image of characters shape or the place where the person lives who made the font. So there is no reality or necessity.
Then I made the font which has a great reality. Which each alphabets shape are made according to the figure of the city. First, I was running around the city with a GPS reciever by bicycle. The running course is the shape of each fonts characters. The GPS reciever recorded global positions once per a second as a data of number. By doing so, I made all of characters (A to Z).
The alphabets are no existence but quite huge. And there was left only enormous deal of data as physical act. Then I was converted to GPS’s digital data into vector data(.pdf) by using a program. Each figure of characters are imported to software of font and finally these are became a useful font completely and also it has a reality.

”Urbanized Typeface: Incheon2010” is the second version of this project. I made this typeface and　 installation for the big media art festival "INDAF2010" with big support from them