A project on the art, acts and technologies of writing, editing and publishing
I learned desktop publishing on my Mac with a bootlegged copy of Aldus PageMaker 3. I’m now writing in version 5.0. In fact before I started on my Mac, I learned the basic concepts of desktop publishing at school on an Acorn Archimedes machine running Impression Style. I believe very few people outside of the …
These photos are from around 2004 when I was teaching at Emily Carr in Vancouver, Canada. Students chose from a selection of quotes on typography and asked to typographically articulate them using different technologies: handwriting, typewriting, stencils, dry transfer lettering, computer. They first used them separately and later combined them. They were asked to examine …
This whole project came as a spur of the moment thing. I don’t know where it is going and where it will take me. And that’s okay. The ideas I have been percolutating for a long time. The ‘stream of conciousness’ is an accurate description. Each post are only marked by a time stamp without …
(non)material text experiment number 0.2: blog posts 7–12 March 2020 organised chronologically. A completely open, published document for you to edit, comment on, hack, etc. This has not been proofread, and images have not been included.
(non)material text experiment number 0.1 – an edited and designed volume that records all 17 posts in the last two days has been published on lulu.com. You can order this 20-page print-on-demand booklet or download it as a PDF here.