Asian Record, side B
Monday
Vi Mã ??ng installing OSP's posters at Café 3D.
Its akward, it’s unconfortable, but we want to put ourselves in a position of welcoming a happy accident, a trong ruì có may.
(Tomorrow, not forget :
— printer
— walking
— reformat usb sticks
— osm account)
We make a tour with GPS and cameras to chase stencil letters in priority, and some hand-painted letters.
Redrawn stencil letters, on lots of walls
Some less stencils, even if the reverse leftover of a vinyl cutting operation is barely always throw away, it can be used also, and is composed of islands and sea. Stickers are everywhere.
Maybe at a more high pace than on other places, machine vinyl cutting letters make hand-drawn lettering goes rare
Participants ask what is so interesting in those daily life pictures. Pierre Marchand says that, this is exactly daily life as they say, but if they learn how to look at it and how to change it, then it will change radically this daily life/landscape.
When possible to wrap it, wrap it. Here the ceiling of a taxi.
Tuesday
We work with bare feet
Maybe are we at the meristem (Méristème) where cells are not yet specialised – where we are in danger
The professor illustrator who draws beautiful curves so easily on Coreldraw ask for more step by step operations
(Tape, Ferrer maybe)
Connecting with the city, with the territory
– Bring a flat surface to be able to work less bended
We are making fonts based on previous day pictures. The morning we learn how to use gimp/inkscape/fontforge to autotrace a letter from a picture and how to produce a font.
Wednesday
“Unicode’s normative definition is not as informative as it might be (many of the Greek accents are “unified” with Latin accents that the don’t really look like, the result is that following Unicode slavishly will yield the wrong glyph). So in some cases FontForge will use a slightly different set of glyphs than the normative decomposition.” — Georges Williams (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/accented.html)
http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/vietalphabet.html
how to define the thickness and the curve of a tilde relative to letters thickness in a non-typographic system as the DIN one?
“Too much excited to put the vietnamese diacritics everywhere, Nhan Nguy?n and the 2 Pierres decide to spent the afternoon in the garden of the “3D Café” in Can Tho under the endless loop of vn muzak (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqtCvoBXck seems a must) impossible to avoid if you want to have access to an electrical outlet. Prince prepared a py + qt script to inject automatically the needed
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Nhan propose some ways to draw them and Pierreh lost himself in the osp-foundry to find the source files. Organically, after editing most of our fonts, all more or less experimental in some way, we’ve been attracted by our old chap Din, and ends up by editing most of the diacritics to make them fits best with the Din principles (from what font came the previous ones?). The night falls suddenly -near-equator-style- without finishing, but with all the actors ready for tomorrow’s first activity of the morning : the “up, more down, a bit less at the right, slightly to the left” collective game of positioning ready-to-use component diacritics. Back to the hotel with a discussions about the iterative but programmatic process of producing a font, itself a program, a script in some way, or more mathematically, factorisation… Let’s go for another motor ride in town, now.”
Thursday
Morning: We are practicing LiteralDraw in groups. Participants draw letters.
Afternoon:
We take advantage of the crazy fluidity of riding a motorbike in the city. Some of the participants ride their motorbike and go draw letters in the city, communicating by phone their position and movements to the ones staying at the working space. Those ones report the instructions in LiteralDraw to make letters in order to make a complete font.
Chien Phan Quoc leaving for his first road session
Lilly Nguy?n on her patient, smily and persistant work of multitranslation
First series of letters ended up being quite easy to do — only skeleton of letters, instructions given by phone were not so clear. Second series: we want a real letter with skin and flesh, why not serifs or stencil letters?
We add a LOGO/Turtle mode to LiteralDraw.
Friday
Chien lost a complex LiteralDraw drawing yesterday for he didn’t save it. Discussions around the missing fishing net when you quit without saving. Is LD a software like the others, or a more rough tool, an in-between commandline and GUI tool?
LD was modified yesterday in two interesting ways.
For an even more “direct” or “straightforward” mode : no need for an end anymore.
So
line 40 60
will not wait for a
end
to draw the line (of course the end instruction is still very useful to separate shapes)
For our rides in the city hunting letters shapes, we introduced the turn instruction, with right, straight, left arguments, the distance and a nuance (a deviation from the main direction)
Maybe more important is the introduction of variables, with the var instruction! So we’re now able to write
change turn tourne
var 150 unpeu
var -10 presque
then
tourne R unpeu presque
which is not real natural language programming, but which sounds quite poetical for me.
Pushing it a bit, to go to typed variables to be able to
tourne àdroite unpeu presque
or
tourne à-droite un-peu presque
or even
tourne à droite un peu presque
using non-breaking spaces between “un” et “peu” as a trick. So we introduced number and string as replacements for var. LD is more and more deeply connected to language.
The extention of OSP-DIN is a neverending work.
Sometimes we’ve used previous week’s dictionary
change line dòng
change stroke bút
change end tr?—l?i
change move di—chuy?n
change cubic cong
change close ?ong
change fill ?i?n—vào
change transform bi?n—??i
change text v?n—b?n
change font ki?u—mâu
bi?n—??i 0.6 0 0 0.6 0 -300
bút 180 0 200 1
?i?n—vào 250 100 100
di—chuy?n 135.00 732.00
cong 134.00 691.00 178.00 660.00 241.00 659.00
cong 290.00 661.00 328.00 701.00 328.00 755.00
cong 378.00 665.00 441.00 643.00 521.00 677.00
cong 524.00 681.00 576.00 759.00 497.00 889.00
cong 496.67 891.67 411.67 960.00 330.00 986.67
cong 230.00 926.67 163.33 845.00 133.33 735.00
tr?—l?i
?ong
di—chuy?n 135.00 732.00
ki?u—mâu 30 0 0 Alfphabet
v?n—b?n we
With the golden frog at the back
Lilly Nguy?n Thong Tran
Thanh Tri Loi Kim
Trung Tran Minh Ngân Tr??ng
Dat Huynh Phat Nam Pham
Quoc Nam Chien Phan Quoc
Vansau Duong Kiet Le
Lê Qu?c Tu?n Xuan Phuong
Nhan Nguy?n Minh ???ng Nguy?n
La participation OSP de l’Open Design Week a été rendue possible grâce au soutien de l’OIF
