October 26, 2008
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 :)
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July 22, 2008
* in fact it is out ‘already’: R-Echos issue 1
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July 09, 2008
EDIT: R-Echos Issue 1 is out (somehow)
R-Echos issue 1 is coming soon…
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July 08, 2008
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July 06, 2008
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.
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July 01, 2008
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
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June 24, 2008
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.
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June 23, 2008
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.
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