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Iceberg
February 02, 2009
Categories: drawing
Tags: geometry, triangles
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AMI 6
* AMI 6 was for some times the best sold car in France; it’s a kind of advanced model of the emblematic 2CV.
** Amandine send me this image as a reply to the earlier post: You are driving a Volvo; last sunday we were speaking about archetypal shapes and designs for cars.
September 17, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized, designing
Tags: archetype, car, compression, geometry, reduction, shape
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Your are driving a Volvo
Your are driving a Volvo 1996, by Julian Opie.
* with Amandine, on Sunday breakfast on a terrace we were discussing of the notion of iconic and archetypal cars’ shape.
September 16, 2008
Categories: designing
Tags: archetype, art, car, compression, geometry, reduction, sculpture, shape
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Louis Emile Javal, Legibility & Typography
Yesterday with Patrick we discussed about how to fit as much information as possible in a tiny icon (16×16px). The idea was to put the name of the band (it is for Kitsune) on display on the icon.
We came trough a range of ideas including tiny micro type from the end of the 90’s developped for on-screen reading for and by flash designers; we also thought about the work of Louis Emile Javal (wikipedia notes on Javal work). Javal was an ophthalmologist who worked on character differentiation to increase legibility; he worked on the mainly on the counter-form of the letter, the shape created by its absence. the work on the lower case “o” is quite remarkable: it is a simple middle dot which helps draw the circle of the letter just by opposing contrast to surrounding letter-forms.
Interestingly, my quick searches lead me to a nice blog post Typographie Font Minuscule introducing a typeface designed by Thomas Huot-Marchand (of 256tm); he re-worked the principles developed by Javal according to contemporary technologies.
I read about an article in the Typographisches Monats Blätter covering this font but i couldn’t get my hands on it – this page mention a pdf, i would love to see more of the specimen; i really like the intelligence of the demonstration below:
Bloody smart, isnt’it?Finally, there a few more resources on the subject:
* Typophile has a node about the Javal, and mention the work on the Minuscule typeface as well.** Patrick came back this morning with the idea of using QR code (or something similar) which is brilliant: it lets you embed more information than a simple surface could ever contain. That’s all the Meat Data thing! I love this idea…
*** writing this post reminded me of our own attempts with Pierre Terrier at designing a small size characters which remains legible: the Jawut; a mix between the Javal and the Newut from André Baldinger. This typeface has been designed for the Analog Information Books projects documenting the installation Analog Information: 2 computers talking to each other using speech to text and text to speech technology.
**** Some forms of this Minuscule typeface are analogous to the one we developed for the typographic experiment we developed for our Futura Domus, a contribution to Domus 917 (September 2008) – it’s really nice to see the sphere of influence a non designer production can have on a wide variety of practice…
September 03, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: compression, forms, geometry, javal, legibility, reduction
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links for 2008-06-20
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js to embed flash using the DOM
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An introduction to Europolis (a backwards portrait of the artist as a 12-point system) – published in DOT DOT DOT 9
June 19, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: art, auction, debug, dotdotdot, dotdotdot9, flash, geometry, javascript, market, mathematics, pdf, selling, validation, webdev
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Matrix Font & Arabic
via Fritz [email: 30 April 2008 16:38:59 BDT]
June 18, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: arabic, font, geometry, matrix, pixel
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BMW GINA Light Visionary Model – today and tomorrow
GINA stands for “Geometry and Functions in ‘N’ Adaptations”
June 15, 2008
Categories: designing
Tags: geometry, textile
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Bmw GINA Light Visionary Model: design images
A set of photos from the design and construction process of the Bmw GINA Light Visionary Model and the official document that illustrates the philosophy behind the concept.
June 14, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: geometry, prototype, research, textile, transport
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Kazunari Hattori
June 13, 2008
Categories: designing
Tags: geometry
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Futura Basics
June 13, 2008
Categories: Uncategorized
Tags: elements, geometry, typography, vocabulary
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CAC BRETIGNY – Poster by Vier5
June 13, 2008
Categories: designing
Tags: geometry, poster, print, process, rules, typography
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futura464.jpg (JPEG Image, 464×350 pixels)
June 10, 2008
Categories: typography
Tags: alternate, geometry
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links for 2008-03-17
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saving multiple clipboards for later access via contextual menu.
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A recursive acronym (or occasionally recursive initialism, and sometimes recursive backronym) is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. Due to the nature of the English language, which would infinitely recurse left-re
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i like the simple and effective interface and 3 column layout for blog excerpts, links and lists agregation
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Matching Whole Lines of Text
March 17, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, *****, aggregator, application, banger, business, card, censor, censorship, clipboard, coding, communication, complexity, context, cover, crypto, culture, design, directory, disclosures, ed, education, game, geometry, graphic, illustartion, information, installation, language, links, mac, mathematics, media, news, osx, paper, record, reference, regexp, resource, resources, software, structure, tools, txt, wiki
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links for 2008-03-16
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(tags: explosion photography)
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nice resource of Monospaced fonts for displaying code – I finally selected the Profont for my own use in TextWrangler, seems like an improved version Monaco.
March 16, 2008
Categories: bookmark
Tags: activism, analysis, author, brain, censor, code, coding, color, comparison, consciousness, content, cup, design, drawing, explosion, font, frame, future, geometry, GUI, history, icon, interface, mapping, network, noodle, photography, production, resource, science, talk, ted, time, tools, tradition, typography, web2.0
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