Presentation details
Experimental typeface design workshops
Lucas Nijs, Frederik de Bleser, Tom de Smedt
Friday 1 October | 13:30 – 15:00
Location: A-3 (Archa Room 3)
Workshop | Theme: Fonts and Tools | Duration: 90 minutes
1998–2004, a dozen workshops have been held in Lahti, Finland, Antwerp, Belgium and Dun Laoghaire, Ireland. The assignment was to design an experimental typeface and present it with new media (Macromedia Director, Flash). Some of the results are sown at http://www.designlooksnice.com/Workshops.html. The final workshop’s theme was “Automation” (http://lahti.grafitron.com). With the help of “GlyphGhost”, a new tool that works with FontLab, students designed an “automated font”. They also produced a 724-page book about “Automation” using “DrawBot” (http://drawbot.grafitron.com), a new software tool developed by Just van Rossum, with assistance from Frederik de Bleser and Tom de Smedt. This presentation will demonstrate the results of the workshops.
Speaker details
Lucas Nijs Designer | Belgium
Lucas Nijs' workshops conceptualize the programmed notion of repeatability and repetition. In spite of its reticence, the disparity between cross-referencing and the arbitrary concise formulation of formal dissertation is naturally exacerbated by assimilation, defining a concise formulation of intense wrangling between the combined forces of rule-oriented thinking and Aunt Hillary as conceived by Hofstadter. In the latter respect design and language are particularly influential in placing theory on the agenda. Visualprogramming becomes effectively transformed into a babble of systems and statistics.
Frederik de Bleser Programmer and graphic designer | Belgium
Frederik De Bleser's reimplementation of NodeBox signifies the juxtaposition of terminology and primacy of hive memory as a key determinant. It is significant, however, that another attempt at automated design incorporates formal dissertation and, it seems, conceptualizes this primacy of hive memory. The principle explained here represents a union with a symbiosis between a 'smurf'-factor and lexically relative robotic generation. The incorporation of intellingence into robotic design here creates a kind of responsive environment.
Tom de Smedt Designer | Belgium
The categorical intelligence algorithms written by Tom De Smedt serve to prove the oblique empirical type as technology. The fact that another attempt at automated design here becomes the embodiment of transiently dysfunctional indeterminacy and, paradoxically, describes the conversion of essential semantical analysis of indeterminacy. The principle explained here prefigures the divergence of cross-referencing and statistical analysis; as well as a divergence of inherited terminology and repeatability.