I love this exchange. Half remembered, expletives omitted.
As I write this using a German keyboard layout on a tablet device I do not use half as often as I would like, summer is going out of season.
Here, where I am, that means when it rains, it pours.
I want to reconnect with where we last heard from each other, tell you what I am up to right now, and these last few weeks.
I used a lot of ChatGPT to complete projects which I had on my mind for years, but knew that I would never finish them.
And I am currently working through the gaps in my graphic design education, because Plain Text 1 by Plain Form talked a lot about type design, experimental type design even, and I saw that what I knew, what I was taught, did not cover that at all.*
Shot from Plain Text 1, Type as Labyrinth, by Benjamin Dumond.
Type design? I learned which type to choose to make things look a certain way, read a certain way.
Experiments? There was the one during our first semester where we made our own grids and used that grid to make some letters. Not a whole alphabet, much less than what a typeface covers. And after that?
So reading this zine I understood my need to become a graphic design generalist as much as I can: why should I stop at what I know when there is so much to learn, do, make?
So that is where I am right now: reading pages of that magazine, made by typographic outlaws from France, who talk about asemic writing, about FontLab and Glyphs, about computational type design, and if knowledge is a country, these are the cities I want to visit. I do not want to be a user of software, like an interface worker who pushes assets around a canvas. My apologies if that sounds rough, but I need the distance from my core studies. I need a little punk here.
And what I need is to get that next level of control, so I can reach the next screen, again.
*I had to order the out of print volume 1 from a different store, cahier central, but you are a smart kid, you will find your own source for it
Today is the birthday of my social wall, a project I have started a year ago, and announcing it with this post below from one year ago.
And I have decided to write a post on my website about ASCA, my Automated Social Content Archiver, while going through the first few of my posts I have saved on my social wall, and since this sideblog was one of the first of my social media accounts to have some* of its content stored that way, I wanted to celebrate here as well.
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