May 2012
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…design, as a discipline based on the idea of planning, is itself a technique for imposing organization, structure, regulation, and control.
Typefaces are the most elementary example of this regulatory aspect of graphic design. By regularizing the shapes of letterforms, typefaces make words easily transmissible, with enormous benefits for society. The grid is another example. By giving the...
It was a poetry far beyond paraphrase, a poetry that often asked to be completed or activated by the reader, a poetry of direct presentation — the word, not words, words, words, or expressionistic squiggles — using the semantic, visual and phonetic elements of language as raw materials in a way seldom used by the poets of the past.
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Emmett Williams, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry, 1967
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The uses of experience in problem solving
As a source of confidence. Though this may be unjustified (if the problem is easy) it can help make subsequent problems easier.
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As a museum for mistakes. This is helpful in identifying erroneous assumptions, directions or solutions.
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As a source of principles. Such principles might be general ways of handling a problem or might be specific solutions.
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As a catalogue of arrangements. Previous...
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TypeCulture
ilovetypography
typeneu
swisslegacy
typography
typoretum
typophile
typemytype
typefoundry
slanted
ministryoftype
typetheory
FontFeed
Phinney
Type 101
typegoodness
Typetoken
Pressing Letters
Graphemica
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Färdknäppen
Färdknäppen is an apartment house, owned by a municipal housing company, located on the island Södermalm in Stockholm. We who live here co-create a community in our daily lives together, which makes life easier and more fun when the “togetherness” of family life and working life diminishes as we grow older. We cook in groups that prepare shared meals on weekdays We take care of our house and...
April 2012
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The blue sky is blue.
That says everything
about the blue sky.
These flying rebuses however –
although the answer changes all the time,
anyone can decipher them.
They are intangible, so high above,
nebulous. And the gentleness
of their dying! So painless
few things here can match it. The clouds
have no fear, as if they knew:
they’ll come into this world again and...
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Free Will And Testament
Given free will but within certain limitations,
I cannot will myself to limitless mutations,
I cannot know what I would be if I were not me,
I can only guess me.
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So when I say that I know me, how can I know that?
What kind of spider understands arachnophobia?
I have my senses and my sense of having senses.
Do I guide them? Or they me?
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The weight of dust exceeds the weight of settled...
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I remain in the room in which I am writing this.
I put one foot in front of the other.
I put one word in front of the other, and for each step I take I add another word, as if for each word to be spoken there were another space to be crossed, a distance to be filled by my body as it moves through this space.
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A curved, rising signifier, a black idea fin of momentum and intent cuts through the distance between us in a spray of memes.
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The Raw Shark Texts
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WatchDesigning Visual Language Part 1: About Pictographic Signs
Pictograms exist at the intersection of image and language. Their operations, functions and consequences are complex and varied.
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Designing Visual Language Part 2: About Glyphs and Symbols
What happens when the design of written and typographic form is detached from its basis in linguistic cultural tradition?
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WatchDesigning Visual Language Part 3: Type Illusions
Perceptions triggered by optical illusions often influence with visual communications. In type design illusions are manipulated at sub optical levels to create a sense of eveness in a body of printed or digital letters.
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Verfremdungseffekts
The fourth wall is the imaginary “wall” at the front of the stage in a traditional three-walled box set in a proscenium theatre, through which the audience sees the action in the world of the play. The idea of the fourth wall was made explicit by philosopher and critic Denis Diderot and spread in nineteenth-century theatre with the advent of theatrical realism, which extended the idea...
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διήγησις≠μίμησις
Diegesis (Greek διήγησις “narration”) is a style of representation in fiction which presents an interior view of a world and concerns telling, recounting, as opposed to showing, enacting.
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Mimesis (Greek μίμησις “imitation”) is a critical and philosophical term that carries a wide range of meanings, which include imitation, representation, mimicry, imitatio,...
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