“All is flux, nothing stays still, no man ever steps twice in the same river“, observed Heraclites.
This intelligent (because human) letterform allows a message to change from an instant to another, in an attempt to reflect on the fleeting quality of the moment.
It is flexible enough to keep the message relevant and up to date as its context changes, but also has the visual presence of a giant billboard.
January 23, 2010 by amandine
Category: Heralictes, dayglo, human typography, letterform, lettering, performance, reblogged, time, type, typo, typographic installation, typographic performance, typography, wearable typography
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PUBLICATION AS PRACTICE
A short course on concepts of artists’ publications
Wednesday 20th January, # 1: THE ARCHIVE, Guest speaker James Hoff
Wednesday 3rd February, # 2: PHOTOBOOKS. Guest speaker Stephen Gill
Wednesday 17th February, # 3: ART WRITING. Guest speaker Fiona Banner
Wednesday 3rd March, # 4: Eva Weinmayr
Wednesday 17th March, # 5: TEXT AND LABOUR. Guest speaker Will Holder
Wednesday 31st March, # 6: THE PAGE. Guest speaker David Campany
Wednesday 14th April, # 7: APPROPRIATION. Guest speaker Michalis Pichler
… to be continued
X marks the Bökship , Donlon Books, London
January 19, 2010 by manystuff
Category: Varied images, graphic design, photography, reblogged, typography
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Recently, a bomb-sprayed piece of graffiti on a wall, reading “Time doesn’t exist, clocks exist”, drew my attention to two layers coexisting in the perception of time. One refers to the flowing entity, while the other invokes the intellectual, man-made structure that we use to sequence events and place them in a chronology.
The notion of time also opposes the mathematical abstraction calculating periods of time and the concrete mechanism of clocks counting its passage.
This begs the question: is there something called Time, other than the counting activity? Isn’t the consciousness of time a typically human experience?
The final experiment of this research took place in a busy train station during rush hour, in order to reflect the flow characteristic of the place. It involved eight people mimicking a digital clock in real time with their arms and shoulders. Standing in line side by side in the middle of the station, two of them acted as the hours units, two for the minutes, and another two for the seconds. The two other performers were acting as the colons separating each unit of time. The wearable letterform, with its specific flexibility, allowed the message (in this case Time) to change from one second to the other, following more or less accurately the ticking of the station’s clock.
The numbers each of the performers enacted were enhanced by day-glow long-sleeved boleros, which besides making them visible, also echoed the yellow of the train schedule boards above them.
Used in this specific context and by using people as a medium, this temporary letterform confronts the economic value of time (as in time is money) with the individual perception of it.
As seen at Liverpool Street Station on the 23/10/2009 between 18:00:00 and 19:00:00
The final outcome of this experiment is its recording, in the form of a set of photographs fixing the message in the time, space and audience (commuters in a rush) it was addressed to. The letterform was contextual at the actual moment it was mimicked. What is left is a trace of it, as the message displayed (the time the photograph was taken) will not be accurate anymore when looking at the photograph. What was achieved with this latest experiment of wearable type was a hic et nunc letterform, a letterform for the here and now, finding its raison d’être when used in real time.
December 4, 2009 by amandine
Category: performance, reblogged, typo, typographic installation
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Web fonts let you link any TrueType fonts into your web pages using CSS, freeing you from the old limited set of standard fonts. They are supported in all modern (well, future) browsers: Firefox 3.1+, Opera 10+, Safari 3.1+, and also IE4+.
Page download size is critical as it directly affects the performance experienced by users, and many TTF files are hundreds of kilobytes in size. This web service makes web fonts more efficient, stripping out the thousands of characters that you don’t need and leaving only those you want, while preserving the high-quality rendering features that the fonts may include.
Warning: highly experimental. The generated fonts are definitely probably maybe buggy and you shouldn’t rely on them working reliably. Feedback and bug reports would be appreciated.
The font-subsetting source code is available here.
November 12, 2009 by j
Category: graphic design, html5, interface, internet, standard, typography, webdesign
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The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 9
Softcover, 56 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-69-2
Published by Nieves
Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.
November 11, 2009 by Textfield
Category: Friends, Textfield, Women, archive, art, design, distribution, fashion, japan, magazines, photography, publishing, reblogged, typography
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Confronting the notion of ephemeral stencils to the semantic field of tattoos. Tattoos understood as the contrary of temporary messages in both their form and their message, with words and promises such as Love, Forever, Always.
Using the word Always for its double-meaning of repetition and eternity.
Ephemeral stencil made with birdseeds.
November 8, 2009 by jerome
Category: internal
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An original manual for Die Neue Haas Grotesk, amended with the typeface’s new name – Helvetica
Creative Review – Inside the (new) Herb Lubalin Study Center
October 24, 2009 by Simple stuff to be happy about
Category: design, grotesk, helvetica, modernism, rule, swiss, typography
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Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise
October 6, 2009 by amandine
Category: Jean-Luc Godard, La Chinoise, Nouvelle Vague, enhancing the everyday, quotes, typography
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TextFields is an investigation into the metaphysical worlds between text and space.
We are interested in the possible forces that text can generate within a spatial and formal context.
Exploring the sensual energy of unfocused and charged textual forms, we want to understand where do fonts and space lose their limits, where do they become forces and vectors in a field, and where this field is perceived as a field for the unfamiliar; a field without a perceived centre, a field where the inherent qualities of both are dismantled, where the reader, the voyeur and the visitor are intertwined, and where in this lies the emergence of a field of text.
via TextFields.
May 17, 2009 by j
Category: architecture, design, east london, electronic culture, exhibition, experimental typography, graphic design, hackney road, installation, laboratory, lasercut, london, research, textfields, triangles, type space, typography
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installation at The Corridor (410 Hackney Road),
on view in the space from 07.05.09 to 24.05.09
Sa + Su 12:00 – 18:00 or by appointment
closing auction party 24.05.09
part of TextFields – textfields.net/, an exploration of typefaces and space.
May 9, 2009 by jerome
Category: internal
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