Notes during class SI26
Prototyping
21st of January 2025
Pen plotting part 2
- Plotting but with modern software:
- Graphic design metaphors: the brush, eraser. Metaphors within the program. How can contemporary design software export svg to hpgl
- In inkscape: Path ->save as, drawing one hpgl
- 1016x1016 (resolution)
14th of January 2025
PostScript
- Taking on a media archaeology approach: dissecting different languages from different times.
- Every time we print something, we are dealing with this history everyday.
- Business entangled with printing practices.
- 'font fixing magicians'
- 300dpi - the pixels started to be recognised with the naked eye. We started to notice the mistakes in font printing.
- hand tuning bitmap pixels/ bitmapped terminals
During this session, I discovered the power of tilde within the terminal, and I love it!
7th January 2025
Pen plotting!
- https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Pen_plotters
- https://www.isoplotec.co.jp/HPGL/eHPGL.htm
- Archaeological approach to the pen plotter - working hands on - to have a look at all the commands, how they operate.
- In the sense of working from the ‘artefact’ and discover how it worked and how it was.
Methods
22nd January 2025
Discussing Tactical Design (part 2) Group 1 question:
- Critical design: creating an artefact that causes the conversation, the core is to identify the issue and create work for it. Self reflective, reflective of its own doing. An occupied term.
- Tactical design: design for direct action, counter-acting, reacting to already existing design. Hacking into. .In order to create a tactical design, you have to be critical.*Critical perspective to certain work, they intervene within the system (in reference to the examples Fred mentioned in class).
- Knowledge about these terms can be based on context (in class we talked about how Elena, Claudio and myself didn’t have much open discussion about this in class, we only knew mostly of graphic design).