Currently working on a group project (avec Jenny, Mark, Holly & Tom) to produce a limited run publication called ‘Manual for Useful Art’ for an organisation called The Autonomy School. The content of the publication is being written and produced by the MA Fine Arts students at uni who are attending a week of workshops and talks on Useful Art. Our job is to design, create and produce a publication which will then be given out the following weekend in conjunction with events in the Liverpool Biennial.

On Friday we began working on ideas for layout and typefaces. The photographs above document our progress with that. We’re yet to reach a solid conclusion on how the layout is going to look but have compiled a basic grid for us to experiment with and discuss tomorrow.

Decisions so far:

+ We’ve decided on an elastic band bind for the moment, cheap & lo-fi fitting in with the DIY aesthetic that’s being desired.
+ Stock is going to be a basic copy paper weight (to withstand the rubber band - tried newsprint but it’s too weak) - hopefully coloured
+ Front cover is going to unfold into an A3 poster possessing something fabulous.
+ In terms of body text we’ve gone for the delightful DIN family which possesses a wide range of weights and styles for us to play with. (Heading type is yet to be concluded - there’s talk of hand drawn stuff to merge the DIY elements with the more academic content). 

The week commencing tomorrow will be when the Useful Art talks & workshops take place and when we put the publication together. Then printing and putting together at the weekend - it’s going to be hectic.  

lottiebrzozowski:

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mm dimensions

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Dimension

Refers to the constituent structure of all space and it’s position in time.

Four dimensional Tesseract - consisting of 3 dimensional volumes.

Time is often referred to as the 4th dimension but it is purely temporal as oppose to spatial.  

Loop Drawings 2012 by Pierre Charpin as part of the Wrong Shop Editions.

Swatek & Starr 1975

Mikey Hu

Flatland →

Predictably, there is a lot of Flatland typographic work. This is quite nice though. Makes me wonder if some kind of folded paper/printed thing could happen - although paper isn’t exactly ‘now’. Perhaps not.

I’ve been reading Flatland - a novel about a square who lives in a two dimensional world called Flatland who meets a sphere from Spaceland.

Whilst it’s not a contemporary novel it’s concept fits well with what I’m doing. 

“You who are blessed with shade as well as light, you, who are gifted with a knowledge of perspective and charmed with the enjoyment of various colours, you who can actually see an angle and contemplate the complete circumference of a circle in the happy region of the three dimensions - how shall I make it clear to you the extreme difficulty which we in Flatland experience in recognising one another’s configuration?”

“We can’t see angles, but infer them.”

“Either this is madness or this is hell.” , “It is neither”, calmly replied the voice of the sphere, “it is knowledge; it is Three Dimensions…”

PEK →

An example of a projection of 3D type.