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	<title>The online portfolio of Ben Mansell &#187; process</title>
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		<title>new side project: eftr</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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Getting busy in the FontLab, starting on a new face; tentatively &#8220;EFTR.&#8221; At this stage, it&#8217;s just a skeleton showcasing proportions before I draw out the legit specimen as a style guide. After a survey of OCR typefaces, I decided to style some of the more condensed characters wider to help with the horizontal metrics. [...]]]></description>
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Getting busy in the FontLab, starting on a new face; tentatively &#8220;EFTR.&#8221; At this stage, it&#8217;s just a skeleton showcasing proportions before I draw out the legit specimen as a style guide. After a survey of OCR typefaces, I decided to style some of the more condensed characters wider to help with the horizontal metrics. Dropping the cap height down helped with evening out these proportions. I&#8217;m dreaming up a face that reads well at moderate to small sizes on screen and has a subtle technical look to it.
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		<title>Generative Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has got to be the most interesting form of design where extraneous factors become the design. A typical designer wants full control of how things look, even down to the pixel or even millionth metric in a font. This is all well and good, but that&#8217;s the moment a design becomes static, no longer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This has got to be the most interesting form of design where extraneous factors become the design. A typical designer wants full control of how things look, even down to the pixel or even millionth metric in a font. This is all well and good, but that&#8217;s the moment a design becomes static, no longer changeable. It is finalized.</p>
<p><img src="/images/boerse.png" alt="boerse" /></p>
<p>An instant champion for this sort of generative process is a font called <a target="_blank" href="http://laikafont.ch/applet/test_eng.html" >LAIKA</a>. Its beauty isn&#8217;t seen in an end result, but a result that is forever free to be altered (though not always published). What is most surprising is that the results are not jarring, they are aesthetically comfortable to the viewer or creator. On the other end of the spectrum there are processes with frightful results, simply a different gestalt.</p>
<p>Check out <a target="_blank" href="http://generatorx.no/" >generatorx.no</a>, a good resource for indexing a lot of these kind of projects. Many of them looking very process oriented (not always pretty).</p>
<p>I can see generative design playing well with identities. The parameters of an identity are very simple and often consistent, so it is easy to swap out one consistency for a variable. For something as rigid as logo design, changing a color can damage the image a brand has worked so hard to build up, that is, unless it is defined dynamic elements. There are plenty of other opportunities to create consistency, even consistency in variables. A lot of brands already do this by specifying a variety of colors to be used in an identity, but again, static.</p>
<p>I look forward to seeing more of these works spring up, but stay small and practical within their own bounds.</p>
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