by Mark | Jul 2, 2021 | Experimentation, Journal, Promotion, Uncategorized
One of the things that I identified earlier in the project was making tools that are accessible. Not everyone has access to a 3D printer, or to the printing presses required to use the 3D printed blocks. With that in mind I experimented with different physical ways I...
by Mark | Jun 24, 2021 | Experimentation, Journal, Primary Research, Promotion, Research, Secondary Research
Open Collab is a experiment in digital collaboration. Throughout the month they put out an open call for submissions on a theme that are the randomly combined with other submissions to create new works of art. This month it was the Typographic Session and they asked...
by Mark | May 27, 2021 | Journal, Promotion, Reflection, Research, Secondary Research
My project focuses on the development of western letterforms based on latin alphabets. In the 2014 documentary about her by Edward Tufte, Inge Druckrey posits that “the classical Roman letter is the ancestor of all later formal developments of our...
by Mark | May 19, 2021 | 3D Printed Letterpress Type, Experimentation, Journal, Promotion, Uncategorized
While printing a set of blocks for printing I ran into an unexpected problem. The printing of a set of blocks takes around 1.5hours, during which time I was teaching and did not realise the resin in the printing vat had begun to run out. The result was a failed print...
by Mark | May 18, 2021 | Journal, Promotion, Reflection, Research
In her book Teaching Design, author Meridith Davis comments that todays “design fields began as trades, rather than professions” with many of the practical skills being acquired through making (2017). The rules of graphic design are not enshrined or...