make image, make sense

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.

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#weeknotes 2021-15