week 18 | Ma data visualisation
This week has been about printing* neon pink type, reading new books and collaborating.
This week, I made my sketches for my type experiments. I did this by cutting up my prototype prints and measuring and arranging them on a page. I found this manual process enjoyable as it allowed me to experiment with a lot of arrangements in a short amount of time.
Once I had my designs I was able to set the type on the press. I did this by measuring it on the press and including furniture to fill the empty space on my page. We then inked the press, inked the type, and walked the press to print. When the paper is released it makes a very satisfying click! I also enjoyed the sound of the ink being distributed on the roller!
We did our test prints on newsprint first. This was a good way to test if the alignment is correct, especially for words where I was doing overlaps. For the word ‘whoosh’ I aimed to create a block of overlaying text and experiment with going off the page.
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Printing involved lots of iterations but it was really enjoyable to learn the process, and also exciting to try using a neon pink ink colour.
This week I carried out an interview/zoom call to find out more about mycorrhizae for my final major project.
At the end of the week, we shared our experiences on this project and had the opportunity to hear about and interact with everyone else’s projects too. I found it really inspiring to see the many different approaches and outcomes that formed from our sound walks.
I have been reading about early electronic music and reading Daphne Oram An Individual Note of Music Sound and Electronics. I am finding it really interesting to learn about this way to make music by painting/drawing audio waveforms, and how this creates a humanistic characteristic to electronic music sounds.
I have also been looking for visual inspiration related to networks in Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design by Robert Klanten, F. van Heerden and Computational Drawing by Carl Lostritto.
*thank you to the technicians at LCC, for all their help and generosity with letterpress over the last few weeks.
