Did you ever wonder why existing design tools make you do so much repetitive work? Why is it difficult to get back to sketching once your design tools take over? This lecture will address sketching techniques; how to use the same content, parameters, and algorithms for magazines, posters, websites, specimens, graphs and identity manuals; live usage of variable fonts in designs; and PageBot basic architecture, the process, and live examples. No coding experience is required to appreciate what is possible.
Date
Thursday, September 14th 2017
Code All Your Graphic Designs with PageBot, DrawBot and Variation Fonts
Speaker
Petr van Blokland
Petr van Blokland works with designer Claudia Mens and others, depending on the type of project. He graduated in 1980 cum laude in Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of the Arts in The Hague (KABK) and studied Industrial Design in Delft. His special interest is in typography, type design, designing the design process, programming, and design theory. He received the ATypI Charles Peignot Award in 1988 and was a Board member of ATypI. He has lectured at various academies at bachelor and master’s level. His current focus is on international projects related to typography and type, as co-founder of Type Network.