Thursday, 25th March 7-9.30pm
(and third Thursday – or thereabouts – of the month thereafter)
Madlab (Manchester Digital Laboratory)
36-40 Edge Street, Manchester M4 1HN
(Between Thomas St and the Craft Centre, opposite A Bar Called Common)
madlab.org.uk

• Telematic presentation by Venice, CA based graphic designer jonobr1 – ‘You’re Just My Type’
• In-the-flesh presentation by Manchester based interaction designer Elliot Woods of Kimchi & Chips
• Informal ‘show-and-tell’ and ‘open-laptop’ sessions (bring some of your own work along)

Join us at the next session to see Processing in action, meet other interested and like-minded people and find out more about the project and how to get involved.

For biogs, photos and links…

Jonobr1
http://portfolio.jonobr1.com/

jonobr1 is a graphic designer born and raised in Berkeley, California. He received his B.A. in Design | Media Arts with a minor in Latin in June of 2008. He focuses on revealing and expounding dialogue through a multiplicity of media between the people around him. As a result he is very involved on both an organizational, theoretical level, and a production, execution level. This focus allows his interest in material to flourish. Whether through vector graphics or gritty moss he enjoys sifting through and exploring the semiotics of these materials. He currently lives in Venice, California.

You can find more on jonobr1 at vimeo, dropular, del.icio.us, Space Collective, UCLA Design | Media Arts, and last but not least his blog.

You’re Just My Type

Telefon Tel Aviv — Stay Away From Being Maybe from jonobr1 on Vimeo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonobr1/sets/72157622613991424/

This is a demonstration of an application I wrote. It’s built with processing.org. I’ve been reading TYPE+CODE (yeoahn.com/typecode/) and thought my first endeavor would be to give Form Conspiracy’s (great designer cargofolio.com/formconspiracy) typeface pyramid some motion. You can find his free typeface at justmytype.org/fonts/pyramid.zip — He made the typeface about a year ago. The video starts by going through the alphabet and then drifts back in forth between recognizable type and abstract patterns. Also, Telefon Tel Aviv is probably most favorite electronic group. They got me into electronic music. Some moments remind me of Viking Eggeling’s Diagonal-Symphonie. If you’d like the app to play around with you can message me and I’ll send it to you.

At the moment It requires Java 5 and JSyn (Snow Leopard has Java 6, so it won’t run). To interface each key is its corresponding letter. You can click and drag where the X axis is how drastic the degradation is on the typeface and the y axis is the scale.

Can you distinguish all the letters of the alphabet? Finally, because of the nature of the typeface coupled with compression I recommend viewing this video in full screen.

Elliot Woods
Kimchi & Chips
http://www.kimchiandchips.com

Elliot Woods received his Masters in Physics from the University of Manchester and applies his technical skills to the world of interactive art and design. He has exhibited works in Milan, Aarhus, London and most recently was featured in SIGGRAPH Yokohama.

He works for studio Kimchi and Chips with business partner Mimi Son. The studio has a permanent space in Seoul and hires workspace in London on a project by project basis. Kimchi and Chips’ work focuses on Human Centered Interaction Design, and developing new technologies to enable novel experiences for the user. Elliot specialises in projection and vision methods using openFrameworks, VVVV and Arduino.

His interest is innovating and simplifying technology to create elegant, sustainable solutions. Through this, Elliot aims to develop a future with less information and materials that are used more thoroughly and thoughtfully.