"the ship metaphor"

== font that reads itself ==

the captain left, but the project lives on!
they started from the concept of a rorsarch test. they played around with the symmetrical concept of the rosarch.
the letter is divided in a right and left side. information side and when the book reads, there is a simplified side. the real information is smooth, the interpreted version is pixelated.

WHY:

a book that reads itself is an interesting idea. it has a punch.

COMMENTS: - should it be pixelated
- they lack the elegance of the rosarch test
- maybe the pixels should be outlined, it looks too boring.
- analyse the contrast
- the fact that you can't actually read it, but the book can, is interesting

== metafont group ==

the captain of the ship left too!
they used the wendy
the metafont carries extra information. it takes it from what the person is writing right there. it generates more of your text.
how do you visually represent that?
making software that generates paragraphs of text based on a basic paragraph. it doesn't say anything more.
naturally, the content detioriates too, and there are different versions of the font.
the typeface is visualising the automation of the content.
it looks like a piece of string that has some text curled inside it. when you stretch the string, it gets longer and longer until you get a straight line.
they want to add more information, but not really more useful information.
this idea, too, was totally changed from what was shown yesterday. they were picked for the idea, not for the visual form. it's a totally different solution to the concept.
technical: the font doesn't change evenly throughout the font. the letter 'e' will detioriate much faster than the rest of the letters.
five versions of the font.<
on the internet, if you create a new page on the subject of chess, you might first lookup what's already there and copy it. and so will, after a while, do people with your page.
there is no extra content outside of the paragraph. you first have to write something to make the computer generate more text.

NAME: loremess / more spacial / less spacial / LORE IS MESS

COMMENTS:
- is adding more words adding more information?
- what starting font will you use? basically, it could be any font at all. any font will change to your font.

CODE ELEMENTS FROM KERNKRU:
://NGMTA/KGP/DRWBT

== ? ==

automation is supposed to answer questions,
this morning we thought about it, and how a typeface could show that we have lots of information and lots of questions. every letter was made to make you wonder something,
"do we really need to write that much?"
been drawing 1000's of question marks, and we build a font out of question marks.
they all look like drawings.
every question could be a little more different and abstract.
you start manipulating the question marks into letters.
just let it flow, they have many questions at well.
trying to make something "do we need everything we read? do we read everything we see?"

CODE ELEMENTS FROM KERNKRU:
://*KGP??

COMMENTS:
- what is the automation part? "automation gives more questions" "people make so many extra words/text with automation"
- don't cooperate with the automation idea, don't make the forms into letters. keep it into question marks, so that you're not producing more content.
- somewhere on the sketches it sais: "what are you doing?". That's an interesting approach to put on a character.
- the concept is there, but do you have a clear visual approach to the problem? A: "the automation might solve it for us"

Quote: Elenna: "maybe we find the answer, and that's the solution"

== bodily functions ==

see the breathing font here

brainstorming session
we went on with the parts of the body that are automated
forms and characters of the letter that are automated
which are important, which are not, group them
what can we show in a letter? certain parts of the letter represent certain characteristics of the human body
we're trying to visualise it

automation of humans <-> automation of letters
six main groups for both:
heartbeat -- lines: x-height, ascender, desc
breathing -- space: space in the word, space in the letter, space in the sentence
growing -- size:
uncontrollable body functions (blinking, swallowing, sweating) -- signs: question mark, exclamation mark
5 senses -- leading
excrements -- restform of a letter

for each group we made a form in the letter
we're trying to make a letter for these parts, and each part forms a group. every letter needs all the parts to exist.
the text, when it's not printed, when it's been on the screen, every letter has a life. at the end it's going to be a graveyard.
more concentrating on the body functions and putting them in letterforms
presentation: (just a sketch!) several moving parts that represent different groups

heartbeat, swallowing, and at the same time that would be what it represents in the letter
it's all kinds of rythms, but there are all different
how those movements create forms that create letters

COMMENTS:
- looks very alive
- it has to have a certain kind of logic: heartbeat and growing all are related to size, the vocabulary should be more defined.
- what happens when making words?
- how does it look in fontlab?
- every word has a vowel <--> every body has a heart. so maybe not all the functions should be in every letter. characters by themselves are just shapes, by putting them together they make a typeface.
- think about a word -- what parts of a word relate to human body functions? then think about a paragraph -- wat parts of a paragraph relate to human body functions?

CODE ELEMENTS FROM KERNKRU:
://PR55NG//!!!();

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