* just started to learn a bit more Blender – that seems to be an amazing software. very flexible, the interface appears at first a bit over-complex; i think i start liking it.
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Exploding things
February 13, 2009
Categories: drawing, generative, project, typography
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Vera Molnar
July 08, 2008
Categories: art, drawing, generative
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Designing NODE.London Spring 2008 Poster
July 07, 2008
Categories: designing, electronest, generative, typography
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The Way Things Go: art, zen & hardware crash
Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings, today I’m looking at cause & consequences…
The magic number: 7.01 and how to get prepared for the worst…Yesterday, I was wondering about Process in my early morning readings – in the flow I came to speak about Fischli & Weiss, 2 swiss artists who did the ‘How To Work Better’ a kind of process manifesto.
They also did a film most of you have certainly heard about: ‘Der Lauf Der Dinge’ (aka The Way Things Go). The video – which I loved so much since I first saw it in the Marc Bretillot’s course back in the days when I was in fine art in ESAD in Reims – is described as follow:
Film stills from Peter Fischli and David Weiss’s The Way Things Go (1987); on Youtube there’s a short extract and a link where to buy your own copy.Inside a warehouse, a precarious structure 70-100 feet long was constructed from various items. If this is set in motion, a chain reaction ensues fire, water, gravity and chemistry determine the life-cycle of objects and things. So begins a story about cause and effect, mechanism and art, improbability and precision.
Well … yesterday, my beloved MacBook suddenly died. I mean it freezed, and then refused to boot, displaying a folder with a question mark. That seems to be a very well known issue with a certain type of Seagate hard drive with a firmware revision 7.01 – if you are the happy owner of a MacBook, I encourage you to check your serial numbers.
3 screenshots on how to retrieve your serial number. In the background a nice trick from lifehacker: Keep A Scratch Pad Of The Day, I am also a moleskine-geek which I think is a good way of envisionning vital data backupMyself, I have been lucky enough to see the early reports about this Seagate harddrive issue and I had luckily time to backup the faulty drive. I nonetheless lost a few files and a few precious hours of rest, I also stressed a bit but I can’t help but think there‘s definitely some sort of zen to practice: learn to (better) let go and let’s things go the way things go… but as I deeply appreciate the precepts from the chinese tactician Sun Tzu (see KD01k The Art Of war), I also like to keep things ready for the worst: all I have to do now is to replace the dead and faulty seagate harddrive (there’s a PDF from Apple documenting the procedure to remove and replace a hard drive from a macbook – nothing too scary once you know how it used to be in the recent past) by a spare new Samsung, taken from a mini Porsche LaCie drive I bought in November (just in case) and re install everything back in its order.
KD01k – ‘The Art Of War’ the original text written in 3000 BC by Sun Tzu and his disciples is designed according to its own structure; a generative design principle is applied with a set of rules based on statistics and ponctuation.
* Marc Bretillot website Cullinaire Design et autres façons.
January 14, 2008
Categories: electronest, generative, memory, offline, thinking loud
Tags: apple, art, hardware, process, work, zen
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Altitude – Gestalten verlag
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 companyI quite like the description of the content (it somehow really makes you feel proud of your work):
Altitude
Contemporary Swiss Graphic DesignA 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:
March 09, 2007
Categories: book, designing, generative, internal, memory, newly released
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October 29, 2006
Categories: data beautification, drawing, generative, offline
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October 29, 2006
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Analog information – books
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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TXT – electronic books in train stations
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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