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An experiment in the economics of production: how can we shift focus from consumption of a finished product to investment in the processes of design, print & production?
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links for 2008-07-26
July 25, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: aggregation, annotation, book, design, economic, electronest, experiment, graphic, magazine, participative, print, production, publisher
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links for 2008-07-15
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work mainly on printed matter (mostly books) and on retail and custom typefaces, as well as on free interdisciplinary projects.
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work processes from content related idea into a conceptual visual language
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* a website under the form of a Google mashup mapping book projects (include a ruler / size issue)
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a nice website showcasing colourful projects – nice use of drag and drop…
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Mosso scales automatically and additional capacity kicks in as you need it. There’s no hardware to buy and you only pay for what you use.
July 14, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: berlin, book, color, design, editorial, graphic, hosting, map, munich, netherland, typography
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links for 2008-06-25
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SoundManager 2 lets web developers load, play and control sounds via Javascript. SM2 is an attempt at providing the sound API which Javascript has been missing. It’s a library which wraps and extends Flash’s sound capabilities, bringing cross-platform
June 24, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: art, book, bookshop, design, javascript, london, shoreditch, sound, texttospeech
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Zak Group
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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Fifty Designers Current Favourite Typefaces
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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links for 2008-05-18
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The Culture is a fictional anarchist, socialistic, and utopian[1][2] society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks and described by him in several of his novels and shorter fictions.
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what has been listened on twitter today… the twitter mixtape
May 18, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, book, future, inspiration, music, politic, science, society, to_read, twitter
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links for 2008-04-10
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from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.
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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.
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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered
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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.
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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large
April 10, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, algorithms, animation, archive, art, ascii, book, books, character, code, culture, data, design, encoding, france, gallery, images, inerface, javascript, language, literature, mathematics, newyork, philosophy, pipe, punctuation, research, resource, shell, size, store, structure, text, theory, thumbnails, typography, uk, unicode, unix, utf8, writing, zoom
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links for 2008-04-09
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he International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a 10/13-digit number that uniquely identifies books and book-like products published internationally.
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ISSN is a kind of ISBN but for magazines, journals, newspaper, etc. – serials
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Google App Engine applications communicate with the web server using the CGI standard.
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Have multi-authoring metadata on a single post: Multiple Authors will keep track of what secondary authors edit a post, and add them on as authors.
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How do I develop new widgets?
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CONSIDERING THE FUTURE OF INK ON PAPER: To continue to associate digital printing with only these qualities however is to miss out on the opportunities it is able to offer and more importantly under play its influence on the future of printed matter. RCA/
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Display a list of authors in your WordPress Sidebar Widgets linking to the authors.php page.
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Head Meta Description provides an automatic meta description tag for your blog, inserting a dynamic description depending on the query-type (i.e. page you’re on)
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listing the most recent and updated posts, globally or by category, by author, and more in your sidebar or elsewhere. The recent posts list can also include an excerpt.
April 09, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: application, author, book, books, code, codex, coding, documentation, download, future, google, library, magazine, metadata, paper, pdf, plugin, post, print, programming, publishing, python, rca, reference, selfpublishing, seo, software, templates, web, widget, wordpress, writing, _assembling, _capacity, _theofs
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links for 2008-03-18
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Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake.
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Problem: Some applications do about 90% of what I want.
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A command line anywhere and everywhere (10.5)
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All things AppleScript(tags: applescript resources)
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encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries were yet to be defined
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art & culture periodical; distributed both as a book and a magazine (depends where the barcode appears)
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the idea of a physical blog/reblog under the form of a Cabinet Of Curiosities
March 18, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, applescript, art, articles, biology, book, collection, culture, design, finder, framework, furniture, hack, interface, lifehacks, magazine, osx, philosophy, plugin, productivity, publish, resources, science, shell, software, tangible, terminal, tool, tools, wikipedia, writing, _curiosities
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links for 2008-02-25
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Tarantino and Avary decided to write a short, on the theory that it would be easier to get made than a feature… the film became a trilogy, with one section by Tarantino, one by Avary, and one by a third director who never materialized. Each eventually e
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Del.icio.us API / help. This document and the APIs herein are subject to change at any time.
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article describing a simple use of the delicious API on a mail server
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tracking software for website statistices – tehy pretty much evolved form the evrsion i use to know a couple of years back… it seems like they developped quite neat services and smart tools
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enables you to have your posts submitted automatically to social bookmarking sites like delicio.us
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a nice summary of a few features and softwares to betterise your experience with delicious bookmarks
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this gallery has both onsite and online exhibition
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an overview of the reputation economy, using delicious – the via: tag to give credits; it’s weird this system could not be automatically generated when you use the “copy this” functions.
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a kind of GTD tricks using GMail as the main tool – it’s nice to see good old emails back on tracks in the middle of RSS. it’s a “now old” media on the internet and pretty much everybody feels comfortable with it. A bit of automation oculd bring emails to
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a unique flexible identity system which help to login multiple online services and centralise information regarding personal electronic presence
February 25, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: advertisement, aggregator, analytics, api, architecture, art, auckland, automation, body, book, business, car, code, coding, color, community, connection, delicious, dev, development, digital, documentation, electronic_presence, email, fashion, filter, gallery, get, gmail, google, gtd, ideas, identity, interface, internet, lifehack, login, management, marketing, microformats, monitoring, movie, network, networking, nz, optimization, organisation, photography, picture, plugin, post, privacy, process, productivity, protocol, reputation, RSS, r_echos, service, shoes, social, software, statistics, submission, tagging, tip, tool, tracking, traffic, twitter, url, vehicle, visualization, webdev, webservice, wikipedia, wireless, wordpress, workflow, __ofs
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links for 2008-02-03
CountPosts v 1.0 – WordPress Plugin – Đukijev blog count visits on wp for each post (not when loged-in as admin) (tags: plugin wordpress statistics)
Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress (tags: wordpress xml google sitemaps)
Street fashion photos from street style blogs. Feedshion collect the best street fashion photos from all the greatest street style blogs for your viewing pleasure. (tags: blog clothes fashion feed)
r-echos » Blog Archive » Would-be skyscraper structure (tags: architecture volume preview)
Latest Post from each Category plugin for WordPress · Dagon Design show the latest post for each category (tags: wordpress plugin category)
r-echos » Beta version A new interface for R-Echos, with featured republished articles, most read articles and a visual zaitgeist (tags: internal interface beta r_echos visualisation project info_hub)
YouTube – The Singing, Ringing Tree Blowing wind is making music (tags: art music sculpture outdoor)
Objets livres [design éditorial] The printed thing considered as object. In french (tags: accessibility book design typography edition editorial_design)
robotlab – art | installation | research Some very nice pictures of a factory’s robot used to draw portrait: the performance enlighten proprerties of both universe: automated production and art of portraiture (tags: robot drawing portrait representation art performance)
Numéro deux – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ‘Am I a landscape or a factory’ Godard, via Amandine, about the industrial robot which draw portraits (tags: godard quote movie relationship)
DesignNotes by Michael Surtees » 3 Sites That Had Me Thinking a nice way of introducting links and thoughts – the selected websites are very interesting too. (tags: site link blog)
February 03, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: accessibility, architecture, art, beta, blog, book, category, clothes, design, drawing, edition, editorial_design, fashion, feed, godard, google, info_hub, interface, internal, link, movie, music, outdoor, performance, plugin, portrait, preview, project, quote, relationship, representation, robot, r_echos, sculpture, site, sitemaps, statistics, typography, visualisation, volume, wordpress, xml
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How to work better – Design and process lookup
<img src=”http://textasplayground.net/assembling/wp-content/uploads/how-to-work-better-picture-collection.png” />
Richard Ziade at basement.org has a very nice article with an interresting quote about the software development teamwork and workflow. I read this article after the memo Pierre send to me via email for the (future) organisation of our company, Electronest. They are echoing each other in my mind: it’s nice to see Electronest is already able to do things quite differently.
And along my morning’s reading – there are more echoes, memories and thoughts:
Maki gave me a little piece of paper once – we were working on the Never Odd or Even website for the Serpentine Gallery with Patrick at that time. It never leaved me: first in my moleskine, and then it finally made its way to my desktop.
This is a piece by Fischli & Weiss, and the title is ‘How to work better’, below is a couple of images from my collection.
How to work better
1. Do one thing at a time
2. Know the problem
3. Learn to listen
4. Learn to ask questions
5. Distinguish sense from nonsense
6. Accept change as inevitable
7. Admit mistakes
8. Say it simple
9. Be calm
10. Smile
Ryan Gander who amongst other thing makes lectures he calls ‘Loose Association’, wrote a wonderful book ‘Appendix’ (where Stuart Baileys is a bit more than involved) and created a word: the Mitim, which I spoke upside down. Ryan Gander wrote an exquisite short article about the ‘How To Work Better’ in ‘Working it out’ – where he speaks also about the artists’ process:
Taped to the wall of my studio is an A4 photocopy of a short ten-point manifesto by Fischli/Weiss entitled “How to work better”. I don’t know who put it there, but it has been in place for at least three years. It’s a tongue-in-cheek work using a motivational statement, which is a piece of found text they subsequently enlarged and had painted on the exterior of a building as part of a public commission. I sometimes show it to students at the beginning of slide lectures, and always point it out to assistants who come to the studio.
(Maybe Maki put it here… )
There are a couple more links to follow the ongoing reflections:
- In computing, lookup usually refers to searching the internal and specially crafted database for an item that satisfies some specified property.
- ‘Appendix’ by Ryan Gander, designed by Stuart Bailey is findable at Amazon – the ISBN is 90-75380-60-7
Stuart Bailey & Ryan Gander: Appendix Appendix (Christoph Keller Editions)- Here’s is the my re-interpretation/citation of ‘How to work better’ as a desktop background – GTD, efficiency, design and process always in mind; you can download and use, the picture size is for a (black) macbook screen (1280×800) but should be easy to crop/expand with the black zone all around.
- On the 14th of January there will be a simultaneous launch of DOT DOT DOT #15 and F.R. DAVID #2 in London and New York. Both publications will be available and accompanied by a live lecture transmitted from the other location. According to the international dateline, Cubitt Gallery in London will launch at 7pm GMT with a live talk by Stuart Bailey, DDD editor, from New York, while Dexter Sinister in New York will also launch at 7pm (12pm GMT-5hrs) with a live talk by Will Holder, FRD editor, from London.London, 7pm CUBITT Gallery and Studios 8 Angel Mews London N1 9HH
New York, 7pm Dexter Sinister 38 Ludlow Street (Basement South) New York, New York 10002
January 12, 2008
Categories: designing, offline, thinking loud
Tags: abake, art, book, coding, design, process, ryan gander
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Experience – artist’s book, workshop at La Cambre
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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Experience – artist’s book, workshop at La Cambre
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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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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Sun Tzu – KD01k (memory)
KD01k est une édition du traité de Sun Tzu «l’art de la guerre» en 13 volumes. Chacun des volumes donne une lecture de ce texte écrit entre le IVe et le Ve siècle avant Jésus Christ. Chacun des volumes est une lecture générative du texte; elle est basée sur une analyse statistique de la ponctuation, cette dernière engendrant la mise en forme du texte par lui-même, jusqu’à l’abstraction.
May 27, 2006
Categories: data beautification, designing, memory
Tags: book, coding, edition, generative, principle, rule
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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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