Van Bloklands Leidenschaften sind unverändert: er ist Spezialist für Systematisches Design und lehrt an der Royal Academy of Visual Arts in Den Haag. Auf der diesjährigen TYPO »Sustain« wird er über das Thema: “RoboHint: the TrueType hinting tool for RoboFont” sprechen.
What’s next in 15 years? Can we know? And more importantly, assuming we don’t know what’s going to happen next, where do we start with anticipating change? ‘Shift’ is the theme of this year’s TYPO Berlin and boy; did Petr van Blokland talk about a shift. In a sixty minute during whirlwind van Blokland introduced the audience to his vision of the future designer. In his presentation Van Blokland explores the old and the new, breaking up principles and believes by introducing things like ‘Automated Design’, calling InDesign an obsolete dinosaur and a confronting truth on numbers.
Jason Edward Lewis is a poet and a programmer, he actually loves programming as much as a poet loves writing. Instead of dropping one passion to focus on the other, Jason combined both by exploring new ways of creating and reading digital texts. He directs research and creation projects at Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media in Montreal.
Vorgestellt als „Gurus des Unicodes“ starteten Siri Poarangan und Johannes Bergerhausen vom Projekt decodeunicode ihren Vortrag und schon nach wenigen Minuten wurde mehr als deutlich: Selten wurde jemand einem fremdgegebenen Titel so gerecht.
Jason Edward Lewis is a digital media artist, poet and software designer. He founded Obx Laboratory for Experimental Media, where he directs research/creation projects devising new means of creating and reading digital texts and using virtual environments to assist Native communities in preserving, interpreting and communicating cultural histories. His creative work has been featured at the Ars Electronica Center, ISEA, SIGGRAPH, Urban Screens, Mobilefest and imagineNATIVE, among other venues.
