Speaker details
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.
Presentation details
Experimental typeface design workshops
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.