Monday, November 30, 2020
Copy for Process Book
There's no formatting to speak of right now, but I have the size (4.25x6.875in), copy, and 85% of the images I would like to use in the book. It's literally just a skeleton right now but it exists
notes, week of 1 and 3 December
Nate, Paige and May install their work for senior show.
A 38-Point Design Manifesto
- Style Sucks. Leave your attitude behind.
- Raw is Beautiful. It demands and commands attention to process.
- Seeing from Below. Kill the top down view and start building new grounds, platforms, and supports for others to succeed and for life to grow.
- Flow, not Form. Effects and impacts are what matter most.
- Systems, not style...
and so on... at nodesignonstolen.land
read through to end, where there's a kind of colophon / explanation.
They tweet @lowlowtide
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Nude emblems (re: Adam's missing-image pages) —
German philosopher, theologian and physician Nicolaus Taurellus (1547-1606), his Emblemata Physico Ethica (1595). See description by peacay at BibliOdyssey (published 2005).
The entirety can be seen here (scroll down for the "blank emblem" pages).
aside —
peacay / bibliodyssey appears to be no longer active, but the blog was wonderful in its heyday —
Bibliodyssey;
also
at tumblr and
flickr
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Changing Paradigms: Designing for a Sustainable Future
Peter Stebbing and Ursula Tischner, eds.
Cumulus Think Tank, Publication No 1 pdf
Cumulus Association (about)
Sunday, November 29, 2020
200 books, 200 stickers, final dog
I'm going to attach one sticker to each book with a bit of washi tape. The sticker will be the uncut picture of one of the dogs in the book (some of the books have different dogs on each side. Also I have a bunch of extra misprint stickers if anyone wants any!
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
slideshow video
I made a draft of my slideshow video, which is uploaded to my google drive folder at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mWcZkvuv9w9fyx0gDizpPw1oehykxvKJ
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
dogs dogs dogs
- I'm going to make at least one more dog so I can have at least an even ten of these
- I'll print 20 or so variations of each of these to have 200 books
- I'd also like to make some of these into stickers
- I'll have a rough of my process book on Tuesday
notes, week of 17-19 november
aside —
I continue to post comments to seminarians’ blog posts, sometimes a day or two (or even more) after a post might originally have been made.
on Tuesday 17 November,
Nate’s Amendments posters prompted consideration of the order in which things are encountered/seen.
If in a codex book, the designer/author/maker has some (but not total) control over what is seen first, what next.
If things are deployed out in the world, and if there is sufficient stylistic or other similarity or other identifying marks among them, the encounters might (will) be random. Say, if six items are in the world, the order in which they are seen can not be predicted; nor can we assume that all six will be seen.
This is a feature/opportunity, not a glitch/failure.
We also discussed beauty and its role in (1) attracting attention and, perhaps (2) signaling that something is worth attention.
I (John) maintained that ugliness can achieve the same end, always, of course, depending. All designed objects (and situations) exist in relation to other designed (and undesigned) objects and situations. Everything is relative — to other things, time, the particulars of the encounter, personal histories and biases and needs and expectations...
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writing / markmaking / asemic writing
Rowan read some of their writing under way, for their knee, belly and foot casts. The reading sounded smooth, eloquent; perhaps the delivery was smoother than the writing, if it were stammered across the surface of page or plaster-cloth.
The writing surface/landscape is definitely not an ordinary sheet of 8.5x11 paper, ruled or not. It is not flat, and it has imperfections/texture etc. The writing might want to reflect and even be guided, to some degree, by its surface terrain. Think of writing as perambulation, or walking.
detail of dustjacket design, Peter Handke, Mein Jahr in der Niemandsbucht / Ein Märchen aus den neuen Zeiten (Surhkamp Verlag, 1994); American edition My Year in the No-Man’s-Bay (New York, 1998, minus the subtitle A fairy tale from the new times.
discussion of this cover, and the role of working memory in reading, at this Design Stories blog post from 2010.
Think too of different kinds of marks, including asemic writing (that is, writing without semantic meaning, containing no identifiable words with dictionary senses).
Perhaps also relevant are crossed letters (cross-writing), encountered in the nineteenth century (and presumably before and since, and evidently most used by women writers), as a means of economizing on paper. Here is an example, from wikipedia :
From Caroline Weston to Deborah Weston; Friday, March 3, 1837
During class, I pointed to this photograph (here cropped and rotated -90º) of a Beethoven manuscript, spoiled by ink —
“Beethoven’s manuscripts exhibited in Berlin. They think this one was burnt by a candle & he put it out with ink - the only liquid to hand.”
source (@e_sparrows at twitter)
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Talmudic commentaries; polyglot bibles
Pertinent (?) to Adam’s post of sketched layouts, inspired/suggested by a commentary-encrusted page from the Talmud, are images from the Complutensian Polyglot Bible, at archive.org. One is shown below.
my comment to Adam’s post —
Can the frames contain asemic writing, as well as readable text?
There is something performative about these layout drafts — as if the framing/layout were as, or more important than, anything that might be said in those surrounding "boxes."
This relates to the bower nest / bower box idea: the frame is what matters, the interior, beside the point (or only secondary).
5 Takeaways From EoD’s Ecology + Design Panel Discussions
At the AIGA Design Conference, we covered eco-conscious design practices, visual sustainability, design beyond capitalism + more
Margaret Andersen
AIGA Eye on Design (November 11, 2020)
Monday, November 16, 2020
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