Ssstephen: Created page with "[https://volumetricregimes.xyz/index.php?title=Volumetric_Regimes Volumetric Regimes wiki] ===The So-called Lookalike=== [https://volumetricregimes.xyz/index.php?title=The_So-called_Lookalike read it here] A letter Manetta Barends wrote as the so-called designer of this book to a designer, such as the designer of the template used for the entire series, and made me think of a conversation we started to have in Methods yesterday about style.
The series edito..."

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Created page with "[https://volumetricregimes.xyz/index.php?title=Volumetric_Regimes Volumetric Regimes wiki] ===The So-called Lookalike=== [https://volumetricregimes.xyz/index.php?title=The_So-called_Lookalike read it here] A letter Manetta Barends wrote as the so-called designer of this book to a designer, such as the designer of the template used for the entire series, and made me think of a conversation we started to have in Methods yesterday about style. <blockquote>The series edito..."

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===The So-called Lookalike===
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A letter Manetta Barends wrote as the so-called designer of this book to a designer, such as the designer of the template used for the entire series, and made me think of a conversation we started to have in Methods yesterday about style.

<blockquote>The series editors insisted that we could take the design of the book into our own hands, as long as we would “follow the template”. They did not specify what this would mean exactly, but made clear that it was important for them that we honored the original design. </blockquote>

<blockquote>I am wondering how to reconnect your template and aesthetics to the way this book is being made?</blockquote>

<blockquote>We found a slab serif font that aligned with the one in your template and we figured out how to replicate the layout’s dynamics and overall structuration. </blockquote>

(emphasis added in all three above)

Aligned in what way, and why? As a fun misunderstanding Manetta then starts to talk about the "face on the cover" by which I thought she meant typeface. When she mentioned this slab-serif face I was already thinking about the implications of honouring the design choices in the template, and this made me think about the implications of using faces based on those from the early ninteenth century (in this book but also generally). If the face is aligned with the template, can it also be aligned with the contributors? Does everything have to be lined up? The spanish for 'line them up' is 'alinearlos' which is a useful term to know if you are trying to work with a designer whose communicates in spanish.

Yesterday (20221005) xpub1 were discussing style briefly while working together as a group. Myself and Bobi had attempted to not put our own formatting onto some texts we were comparing ('designing' and 'editing' respectively). But then when discussing the compared texts as a group, Cara immediately noticed them to be "very xpub". Brought up some thoughts about styles emerging from process and tools, individual and collective styles, and the implied next thought for me would be 'so what?', does it have any effect?

===We Have Always Been GeoHackers===
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Weird coincidence that I read this the day before [https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Ssstephen/ssskills#20221005_3D_printing learning to use the 3D printer]. Although it first seemed like something not directly relevant some ties came up even in naming (gcode and gplates), but more interesting was looking at their process as a case study. 'Disobedient bug reporting and disobedient action research' seem like useful tools to me, and maybe are also interesting in relation to Manetta's letter above. I thought this was a good critique of a software environment and environment software.

<blockquote>body of the earth</blockquote>

This essay also references 'Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None' a few times which seems worth looking into.

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