The exploratory

The impossibility of silence by Ian Lynam. Writing for designers, artists, and photographers. Introduces useful concepts to consider without getting prescriptive. Guidelines, not rules. Made a few things click for me. Good stuff.

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Promising results of three short monoprinting sessions over the last week. See header image. First pass in black ink combining two cut-out capital letters and assorted patterns. Second pass consisted of printing a solid square of yellow ink over each page. Another even shorter single printing session together with M. produced even more exhilirating results. But that’s all still in the exploratory phase.

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You all did see No. 10 Family office right?

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MIT Press offers open access to Design Issues. Via brilliantcrank.

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Inks and paints of the Middle East.

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Finally succumbed and purchased license to use Brabo, the eloquent type I mentioned here before.

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Sounds: Misnomer by Four Tet. I Hadn’t Known (I Only Heard) / So Now… by Matthew Herbert. Gnosis by Spectral Lore.