https://mauricemeilleur.net maurice meilleur \ design Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:14:06 +0000 https://mauricemeilleur.net en https://mauricemeilleur.net/motion_index Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:01:51 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/motion_index https://mauricemeilleur.net/image_index Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:22:16 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/image_index https://mauricemeilleur.net/object_index Fri, 30 Nov 2018 12:57:35 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/object_index https://mauricemeilleur.net/research_index Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:35:34 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/research_index https://mauricemeilleur.net/word_index Sun, 02 Dec 2018 10:50:37 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/word_index Publications Gustella, by Thomas Thiemich (review), on Typographica (December 2020) Ziza, by Mark van Wageningen (review), on Typographica (December 2019) Calcula, by Shiva Nallaperumal (review), on Typographica (October 2018) ‘Orit Halpern, Beautiful data: A history of vision and reason since 1945’ (review essay),&nbsp;Perspectives on politics (December 2017)&nbsp;(pdf) Cut and&nbsp;TwoPlus, by MuirMcNeil, and Kufam Latin, by Artur Schmal (reviews), on Typographica (July 2017)Square circle triangle, by Bruno Munari (font usage feature), on Fonts in Use (August 2016)Ceremony, by Studio Joost Grootens and Optimo (review), on Typographica (May 2016)TwoPoint, ThreePoint, FourPoint, and TenPoint, by MuirMcNeil, and Fakt Slab Stencil, by Thomas Thiemich (reviews), on Typographica (March 2015)Remo/Remo Plus, by Thomas Thiemich (review), on Typographica (March 2014)Max Bill kontra Jan Tschichold: Der Typografiestreit der Moderne,&nbsp;by Hans Rudolf Bosshard (review essay), on Typographica (January 2014)The Elements of Typographic Style version 4.0, by Robert Bringhurst (review essay), on Typographica (February 2013)Presentations‘Thinking what we’re doing: introducing a design ethics course’, Surface (Design Educators Community/AIGA conference), Seattle, WA (October 2022) ‘Maurice Meilleur: On Jurriaan Schrofer’, Letterspace Amsterdam (March 2022)‘Some (collaborative) assembly required: Constructed scripts beyond the Latin alphabet’, Typographics, Type@Cooper and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design, The Cooper Union, New York, NY (June 2021) ‘Beyond expectations: Unconventional and conventional type design’, panel discussion with Marta Bernstein, Paul McNeil, Laura Meseguer, Hamish Muir, and Ellmer Stefan, TypeWknd (September 2020)‘Under construction: Jurriaan Schrofer’s letters’, Letterform Archive, San Francisco, CA (July 2020) ‘Under construction: Jurriaan Schrofer’s letters’, Lubalin Lecture Series, Type@Cooper and the Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design, The Cooper Union, New York, NY (February 2020) ‘The rules of the game’, ATypI, Antwerp, Belgium (September 2018)‘What makes a script modular?’, Robothon, The Hague, NL (March 2018) ‘Three things you probably didn’t know about letters and type’, Pecha Kucha Night Champaign Urbana (September 2012) Interviews/featuresThe Phaistos Project/45 Symbols newsletter interview feature (July 2018)TypeRadio Robothon interview (March 2018) https://mauricemeilleur.net/panton_geometri Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:14:06 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/panton_geometri Verner Panton, Geometri (1960), algorithmic reconstruction (2022) <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0450d43c5be048022872e00a4554508c525d7be5850495e629674027e2a3d29f/panton_geometri_recursive_2.png" data-mid="159848433" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0450d43c5be048022872e00a4554508c525d7be5850495e629674027e2a3d29f/panton_geometri_recursive_2.png" /> My reconstruction, built with Python in DrawBot. Panton’s original followed a constant order of scale and position; the code I wrote recursively randomizes the scale and parity (white over black or black over white). <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b6a3f4c1042d0c90cf6f67db6e30048b477cbc7a102688f3b0cf659061c1ed3f/panton_geometri_recursive_3.png" data-mid="159849322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b6a3f4c1042d0c90cf6f67db6e30048b477cbc7a102688f3b0cf659061c1ed3f/panton_geometri_recursive_3.png" />I can also adjust my code to add further layers of scale. <img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25223812c0befdd10d5621cb8323577fdb0b3b3d25998e88155a3486745f4a4a/panton_geometri_recursive_4.png" data-mid="159849324" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/25223812c0befdd10d5621cb8323577fdb0b3b3d25998e88155a3486745f4a4a/panton_geometri_recursive_4.png" />Panton’s original pattern (image via auctionet.com): <img width="3088" height="2304" width_o="3088" height_o="2304" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c0ed608fe9ad7b0af9687b3797c142c2ada1355be0fd6f251a0276ec5f7e99e5/item_2029962_adff98b537.jpeg" data-mid="159935487" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c0ed608fe9ad7b0af9687b3797c142c2ada1355be0fd6f251a0276ec5f7e99e5/item_2029962_adff98b537.jpeg" /> https://mauricemeilleur.net/riley_shift Sat, 12 Nov 2022 12:38:32 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/riley_shift Bridget Riley, Shift (1963), reconstructed (2022) <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/097a37f5ac6d3990057717c43e7b7972b2116c5bd181a374e1cf9f4362afc0b8/riley_shift_1963.png" data-mid="158792696" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/097a37f5ac6d3990057717c43e7b7972b2116c5bd181a374e1cf9f4362afc0b8/riley_shift_1963.png" /> Riley is the serial-art queen of the exception to the rule. My reconstruction above; below, the original:<img width="1024" height="1022" width_o="1024" height_o="1022" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/765a6f3c5a1ff4dd3d473ab1e0e7dcb35e52a2ce40f1248df56700505b8e45a0/04b009f0-af12-47fd-a094-f7924f5eb05a.png" data-mid="158792798" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/765a6f3c5a1ff4dd3d473ab1e0e7dcb35e52a2ce40f1248df56700505b8e45a0/04b009f0-af12-47fd-a094-f7924f5eb05a.png" /> (image: via mutualart.com) Built with Python in DrawBot. https://mauricemeilleur.net/molnar_desordres Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:28:57 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/molnar_desordres Vera Molnar, (Des)ordres (1974) reconstruction (2021) Demo for a patterns &amp; animations Python/DrawBot workshop at Typographics 2021. <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a596cc7fe6a82c88011770d5891fd53e3ce1c73336dbe793f6be35ebfc26c48/molnar_desordre_tribute.png" data-mid="158666229" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a596cc7fe6a82c88011770d5891fd53e3ce1c73336dbe793f6be35ebfc26c48/molnar_desordre_tribute.png" /> (reconstruction) <img width="2560" height="2536" width_o="2560" height_o="2536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d7b9de4d4f5bcd51dde6e777a679ee41c62e8801119bc85deea0753b14fbd66/molnar_desordre_1974.jpeg" data-mid="158666228" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d7b9de4d4f5bcd51dde6e777a679ee41c62e8801119bc85deea0753b14fbd66/molnar_desordre_1974.jpeg" /> (original, image: Digital Art Musuem) Built with Python in DrawBot. https://mauricemeilleur.net/bill_funfzehn_variationen Sat, 15 Oct 2022 11:47:46 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/bill_funfzehn_variationen Max Bill’s&nbsp;Fünfzehn Variationen über ein Thema (Fifteen Variations on a Theme), reconstructed (2021) <img width="1200" height="1200" width_o="1200" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fe72c6a428d3d2a473e2fc795b5bb72d79f757385ab90c244f149119f998536/bill_15variations_index.jpg" data-mid="158050938" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fe72c6a428d3d2a473e2fc795b5bb72d79f757385ab90c244f149119f998536/bill_15variations_index.jpg" />(mercedes-benz.art)Bill’s series of lithographs, reconstructed with Python in @drawbotapp (with a little help from Illustrator in variation 11, I confess). <img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/476eeb23709b26a59b5125676374c1434e1caa8a116dd14958d289774d92dc4a/bill_15_variations_1.png" data-mid="158050995" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/476eeb23709b26a59b5125676374c1434e1caa8a116dd14958d289774d92dc4a/bill_15_variations_1.png" /><img width="1280" height="1280" width_o="1280" height_o="1280" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1c391e9552c4dc7acffd89fb1783feaa5c930bcd4445df61ca9ab5f806058d9/bill_15_pres.png" data-mid="158050883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1c391e9552c4dc7acffd89fb1783feaa5c930bcd4445df61ca9ab5f806058d9/bill_15_pres.png" /> https://mauricemeilleur.net/random_buildings Sun, 06 Nov 2022 19:59:33 +0000 maurice meilleur \ design https://mauricemeilleur.net/random_buildings Random building generator (2020) <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0aaca574777043c46a531e508b513306c6b31a5a397c2af129cf855e5c03550a/bldgs_test-3-copy.png" data-mid="158104427" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0aaca574777043c46a531e508b513306c6b31a5a397c2af129cf855e5c03550a/bldgs_test-3-copy.png" /> No way to get out of Ames during the peaks of the pandemic, so I brought the cities I wanted to visit to me. The Python code I wrote in&nbsp;@drawbotapp draw outlines of buildings with randomly-chosen dimensions of walls and numbers of floors, profiles of roofs, positions and shapes/sizes of doors and windows. <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/130f382e009f378bba6c26dded8777dfa98254aaa135eaf09f3ccded836b0ad9/bldgs_test-4-copy.png" data-mid="158104425" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/130f382e009f378bba6c26dded8777dfa98254aaa135eaf09f3ccded836b0ad9/bldgs_test-4-copy.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7a7b4964714c354bf5f0c38b3722f2daef677ace81393812d459062f8cc7cd8b/bldgs_test.png" data-mid="158105063" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7a7b4964714c354bf5f0c38b3722f2daef677ace81393812d459062f8cc7cd8b/bldgs_test.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1500" width_o="1500" height_o="1500" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f6619e1a4c16d3d395ad424c1c6399e599e7c0403c6a388d306dbe3d0dcd1a82/bldgs_test-5-copy.png" data-mid="158104150" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f6619e1a4c16d3d395ad424c1c6399e599e7c0403c6a388d306dbe3d0dcd1a82/bldgs_test-5-copy.png" />