Susana and @kai make design for readers: printed matter, screen-based media, typefaces, exhibitions.
Local ecologies: two hopeful first volumes of a new series for our dearest Jochen Lempert. At 17 × 24, it’s smaller and more intimate than Jochen’s normal books, maybe most similar to his Frogs books. It’s lso more intimate in content: more private, almost conspiratorial, and many more humans.
A huge thanks to Società delle Api and Nero editions, as well as Serum Network for lithography and NPN Drukkers for stellar production.
@timahrens about one yay tighter for text sizes, two to three yays tighter for display sizes.
Local Ecology
We just sent two small volumes with new work of our beloved Jochen Lempert to print.
The content of the books is a slight departure from his usual work: more intimate, dreamy, and site-specific, having been entirely made at residencies in Grasse (France) and Kastellorizo (Greece, barely ;-) with Società delle Api.
Just mixed Garamond Premier and ATF Garamond Micro, we’re such daredevils.
(Jochen Lempert: Local Ecology. Two new books, out soon with NERO/Società delle Api)
@Okay is an octothorpe just a special dagggger?
@Okay Fuck Everything. We’re Doing Five Crossbars
@klim @onpaperwings This is the way.
It’s all about the rhythm,
It’s all about the blues.
https://type.today/en/journal/musicandtype
Wherein @glintveinlina invited Fer Cozzi, Philipp Neumeyer and @kai to talk about type and music.
What do people want to see from us here? (Multiple choice)
@nicksherman (it seems not)
@nicksherman
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@nicksherman isn’t it multiple choice?
What do people want to see from us here? (Multiple choice)
Single fonts for the Diatype cost from 620 DM to 1380 DM (plus tax) in 1968. a VW Beetle was around 4000 DM, as much as a small font family.
I really enjoyed taking this survey:
https://www.surveyking.com/survey/ecal-typeresearch
The framing of “deterministic automation” (eg algorithms) vs “non-deterministic automation” (eg. Machine Learning or “AI”) was super helpful. Maybe I’m not looking in the right places but I haven’t seen much nuanced framing like this elsewhere. And it was interesting for me to think through my actual feelings about different forms of automation for specific tasks🤖
https://typo.social/@kai/114236381385076028
We’re looking forward to – no wait: we are absolutely over the moon mega psyched to come to The Hague and @fontstand #FontstandCon2025 in March. Who of y’all we gon’ see?
(We’re bringing the kids – 10yo/3yo).
These are the same picture.
(Yes this has 2015 music data in there. Apple in their wisdom has never updated the python tools needed to unpack the “Electronic Partner Feed” huge data dump since like 2014, and even before they just plain wouldn’t run anymore, updating everything was an incredibly convoluted and time consuming burden.)
@MatthijsSluiter good question! This was all made more than a decade ago, we can’t remember!
@MatthijsSluiter finding, rather than searching! That was our goal for http://Predominant.ly – whose 10th anniversary this month we totally missed.
