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A little while ago, Pierre sent me an image of a project he thought about for quite sometimes. The idea complements the republishing process of R-Echos and is based on sharing quotes from the books we read.
http://dogeared-books.electronest.com/
the rule is quite simple:
for each quote we like, we make a corner in the book; after a few pages, at the end of the capter, when we finish the book, or stop reading it - we scan the pages and retype the quote (ideally we would use OCR)
After a while we will end up with a very nice collections of cornered pages, and also a database of our favourites bits and pieces from the books we read and which have no search functionality - it is a kind of personal Google Books as well.
* You will notice there are Amazon ads - for a reason: ideally, i would like this experiment to be self sustainable, and the sharing of books could pay for buying the next ones. So if you enjoy the project and find a few books you would like to buy - please use our links, we asked Amazon to pay us in books :)
October 26, 2008
Categories: book, bookmark, newly released, website
Tags: archive, books, ocr, republishing, scan
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* in fact it is out ‘already’: R-Echos issue 1
July 22, 2008
Categories: book, bookmark, collection, designing, electronest, memory, next things, offline, open source, thinking loud, typography
Tags: objects, r-echos, republish
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EDIT: R-Echos Issue 1 is out (somehow)
R-Echos issue 1 is coming soon…
July 09, 2008
Categories: art, book, designing, electronest, next things
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July 08, 2008
Categories: book, typography
Tags: jawut, music, poetry, recognition, sound, speech to text, text, text to speech
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Jawut went trough a few visual optimisation in order to make it readable at a very small size. Jawut has been specificall designed to printed in 4.5pt on HP5000 for the project Analog Information (post 1 and post 2)
The book ECAL Graphic Design showcased the Jawut typeface and printed it at 2pt - we had some feedback stating that it was (amazingly) still readable; grab a copy, be the judge and let me know.
* readability is defining the ease of reading a text trough its writing style; while legibility is the ease of reading the glyphs that compose a text.
July 06, 2008
Categories: book, typography
Tags: fontnest, jawut
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July 02, 2008
Categories: book, collection
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Today Makin offered me the book Bless / Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness in which I saw and liked the visual index at the end - this visual index reminded me a lot of a project Amandine is doing: Thingmapping; an ongoing collection of representation system presented with a single topic: a picture of a rack of clothes at home from which she decided to extract as much information as possible.
Below are some pictures I wanted to post in the comments for a map whose visual feeling is very close from this visual index: What is Whose.
* Bless is a fashion / art magazine; website
** looking at the credits, I saw Stephanie Moisdon wrote in this book - she was one of my professor at ECAL for my MA - nice!
*** Blees, the book: Bless / Celebrating 10 Years of Themelessness
July 01, 2008
Categories: art, book
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The since cancelled The nOulipian Analects is a book based on the conference nOulipo held at REDCAT in Los Angeles.
Christian Bök proposes six ‘axioms’ that form a loose definition of the Oulipian concept of constraint. These axioms are used as the rationale behind the design of the book.
1. It must be simple.
2. It must be difficult to execute.
3. It should reference its own existence.
4. It should exhaust all possibilities.
5. It should be as distanced as possible from any chance operations.
6. It must allow for one ‘anti-constraint’, a deviation that breaks the rules.
June 24, 2008
Categories: book, designing
Tags: book, constraint, photocopy, rules
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June 24, 2008
Categories: art, book
Tags: abstraction, rythm, structure, typography
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Fifty Designers Current Favourite Typefaces
100% of the cover price goes to UNICEF’s Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children’s Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008.
June 23, 2008
Categories: book, designing, typography
Tags: book, charity, designer, typography
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June 17, 2008
Categories: book
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A while ago at Electronest, Pierre and I discussed about an application which could use the clipboard to create a book. Since this, the idea received a bit of attention from my graphic designers friends and this evening it came to my mind that this bit of code was in fact quite close from what Internet was supposed to be if for some reason it didn’t take the path of the World Wild Web, but the path from Xanadu.
Here is a schema of how it could work:
- 1/ I copy the bit of text (in this example)
- 2/ I paste it
- 3/ the pasted text is accompanied by information about the source
December 19, 2007
Categories: book, designing, electronest, experiments, project, thinking loud
Tags: coding, info hub
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I know it somehow old news, but I finally got my hands on the copies of Altitude in which i’m featured for two of my projects on a double spread:
One is the limited edition of Sun Tzu «The Art of War» - 13 generative readings of the original text written by the chinese tactician.
- Limited edition of a set of 13 books; each of them is a re-interpretation of «The Art of War» written by Sun Tzu around 3,000 BC Designed using home-made software specifically developed to take in account the structure of the text (text analysis + statistics).
The second featured work is the Corporate Annual Report for an edition company .TXT - made in collaboration with Pierre Terrier (who recently founded Koilinen, with Franz Hoffman)
- Patterns, text & display. Designed using home-made software specifically developed for the branding of a publishing company
I quite like the description of the content (it somehow really makes you feel proud of your work):
Altitude
Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design
A new wave of intellectually rigorous and iconoclastic Swiss designers are carving their niche in a new graphic language. By combining traditional high quality “Swiss Style” with advanced media, they are giving rise to a progressive style of visual expression. Seven years after publishing “Swiss Graphic Design”, we present “Altitude” - a new generation of flourishing contemporary designers, giving insight into the impact, essence and diversity of the work and evaluating the significant evolution of illustration and typography in recent years.
An increasing number of designers are working internationally with interdisciplinary design practices in typography, vector graphics, photography, interiors and web design. They bring about an experimental, playful and humorous element while maintaining the minimalist approach and precision that gives Swiss Design its universally recognized trademark.
Altitude is an expansive volume that showcases and examines current trends as well as providing an analysis of contemporary Swiss Design through visuals, texts, interviews and commentary from the designers and editors themselves.
and BTW, I really like the way the book is bind, and the continuity of the red shadow on the spine:
Altitude, Gestalten Verlag, Berlin
March 09, 2007
Categories: book, designing, generative, internal, memory, newly released
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Some pictures of the books which were produced in 4 days (tuesday to friday early afternoon), from early sketches to production of limited edition of each student’s book - this represents a really hard work and great involvement from the 11 last year student who i would like to thanks not only for their hard work but also for their engagement and positiveness.
Most of the La Cambre students during the week workshop were from the Typography department, but not only: some of them were coming from other departments Painting, Sculpture, Book Binding, etc. - and this is precisely what, in my opinion, brought such various approaches, seeing the students not going straight to the computer to experiment with their ideas was one of the nicest surprise of this workshop.
November 20, 2006
Categories: book, designing, offline, teaching, typography, workshop
Tags: 1 week, book, bruxelle, design, La Cambre, teaching, workshop
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Some pictures of the books which were produced in 4 days (tuesday to friday early afternoon), from early sketches to production of limited edition of each student’s book - this represents a really hard work and great involvement from the 11 last year student who i would like to thanks not only for their hard work but also for their engagement and positiveness.
Most of the La Cambre students during the week workshop were from the Typography department, but not only: some of them were coming from other departments Painting, Sculpture, Book Binding, etc. - and this is precisely what, in my opinion, brought such various approaches, seeing the students not going straight to the computer to experiment with their ideas was one of the nicest surprise of this workshop.
November 20, 2006
Categories: book, designing, offline, teaching, typography, workshop
Tags: 1 week, book, bruxelle, design, La Cambre, teaching, workshop
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just came back from brussels where stephane perroud and i were giving a workshop last week at La Cambre. this has been a very good week, and the students have been working quite hard in a friendly atmosphere - much much enjoyable. As soon as the picture are ready and uploaded and that a small website is up and running i will post an update regarding student’s production.
(the picture above is the display window used by the typographic department to advertise the workshop with a selection of books from the head of department; in the meantime there was also an exhibition ‹les plus beaux livres suisses 2005› organised with the extensive support of Jean Marc Klinkert)
November 13, 2006
Categories: book, designing, offline, teaching, typography, workshop
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Those 2 volumes are each dedicated to a specific part of the project; the first volume is all about the original text to speech and speech to text process. The second volume adresses the moment when we turned the role of the speaker into a singer - using the iTunes library we found on the hard drive of the computers: one computer was singing the tunes while the other attempted to interpret what it was listening to into text.
Both books use the Jawut typeface which has been developped specifically for it.
May 29, 2006
Categories: book, data beautification, designing, generative, poetry, typography
Tags: book, discussion, hardware, text to speech, typography
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* This small edition is using a japanese binding - on one side of the paper sheet you have the content one can access normally through the pages, on the other side there’s a sort of diagram map of the project I did spatialised by keywords, where each keyword has its own coordinates and the project are placed in the middle of those points.
** The original website is gone
September 21, 2004
Categories: book, coding, designing, ideas, memory, open source, teaching, workshop
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This is our (Pierre Terrier’s and I) BA project.
TXT is a (fake) company selling electronic books in train station in Switzerland; the spreads below are extracts from the annual report of the company. Photography, images, patterns, display, text and content are describing the universe of the brand, designed using home made software, specifically developped for the branding of the publishing company
* update: this work has been featured in Altitude, Contemporary Swiss Graphic Design by Gestalten Verlag in the Editorial Design section
October 21, 2002
Categories: book, coding, designing, generative, typography
Tags: book, design, editorial design, electronic book, photography, txt, typography
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