after coming back from quite an exhausting outdoor training (where i did only some of these activities) i left vienna again on sunday heading for brno to take a look at the exhibits of the 19th international biennale of graphic design. with klaus behind the wheel and verena as an graphics expert we were an unbeatable team and enjoyed the mostly very beautiful exhibition. although the czech people teased us a little bit with their friendly but resolute manners (no credit cards, no pictures, no prolongation). besides prints and layouts from all around the world (far too many to look at completely in a few hours) very fine typography by josef týfa was shown. it is still a long way from the actual awkward screen design fumblings towards modern web aesthetics adapting, transferring and extending the expertise and beauty of traditional graphics and typography.
some pointers: kim soojeong's dots, wiener journal, hundred design inc., the smile project, home of the gesture. "work from holland" compilation: bezet, studio dumbar, dept amsterdam, crazy goals, van drimmelen, experimental jetset, lust (portfolio), letterror, robofog, design politie, die twee, nachtwinkel, max kismann.
"i found a colony of pixels in my backyard. instead of exterminating them, i keep them in a box and train them to do tricks like these." – letterror
it's always a little bit scary to look behind the curtain...
"vanity kills – it don't pay bills." – abc
ndx reveal the secret of their custom calendar for manila. i should have known this when claudia asked me for help decorating her partykeller...
for the next two days i am visiting archduke john (or rather his hotel) in the area of bad aussee: "the center of austria" (phew!). whatever will happen there will happen offline. i only can guess, it's about group training and recreation...
"whatever happened will happen again." – moebius strip
heise online: stephan münz wins the grotesque trial about the so-called "explorer" link in first instance.
"quickly wars with tribes living in the interior ensued and the germans countered with the creation of a poliztruppe in november 1891 to combat die natives. 370 dahomeans were purchased by a military explorer, capt. freiherr von gravenreuth, from their king who was planning to have them eaten at an upcoming feast." – the colonial wars of imperial germany
slashdot for macnuts: macslash. btw: did apple betray the web community buying amazon's impotent patent? coup de pomme.
the mind of tim berners-lee explained: [world wide web] design issues – architectural and philosophical points.
huh! so i could use my pizzabox as a webserver, too: the machine serving pizzabox.newgeo.com is an old macintosh lcii! and quid pro quo is the server software. found via schockwellenreiter/blafasel. also from latter is the link to macintosh developer.
today i played around for the first time with the latest rebol/view. it's hard to describe what it is: an interface development kit, a browser, a scripting environment, an image processor... or everything at once? knowing rebol/core quite well i was surprised what view can do more (it's a lot). definitely smart is the way it can arrange interface elements. the basic ones that are needed for input and output are available. they come along quite "boxy" but the big advantage is their capability to return to standards known from offline application development. somehow it's like apple's hypercard, but much faster and easier. with colors and – most important – a gorgeous engine for doing network tasks.
mc "stephen" hawking: "yo! f*ck the creationists!" throw your hands in the air and turn your wheelchair like you just don't care!