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| Malcolm Garrett from AMX studios, one of
the most radical early multimedia designers, stopped doing paper based work entirely,
although apparently he has started to do some again. He had two main messages : that the design of multimedia must start from what the user wants to do and that " invention is a myth". On the first topic he echoed Letterror's great phrase "programming is too important to leave to the programmers". The interface is not just pretty front doors but the whole program. You cannot make interesting multimedia and not have a grasp of programming. On the second he talked about the idea of "retrievalism" - that we dont need to invent anything anymore, the more you know and the less reverence you have the more you can do. Invention has always been an artistic myth but never more so than today. That said, he is still waiting for the "Duchamp of digital art". |
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| Letterror gave an excellent show. They are two designers from the Netherlands, Just van Rossum and Erik van Blokland, well known in typographical and design circles. They are masters of typographical manipulation - fonts that mutate, randomize, change. They have created a typeface that evolves on the screen and responds to the mouse. Their presentation of the Typoman animations - entirely done with typefaces - was hilarious, but best of all was their " typographical Punch & Judy" in which they, one as Typoman and the other as a crocodile, visited the Museum of Type ! All in real time - voices via microphone, manipulating the characters with custom joysticks. | ||
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