Graphic Designer, Educator, &c. ✦︎ Critique https://teapaw.org/t.co/IINM9vamF3 ✦︎ TyPrograms https://teapaw.org/t.co/Dg5pzBdcl5
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✍︎ Symptoms sans Structure
‘Constructive criticism’ functions as an ideological tool—managing affect in the absence of critical infrastructure capable of holding contradiction, interpretation, and cultural labour.
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While theoretically informed, the text was influenced by recent developments in TD, most notably those that attend not just to form but the full stack of typography (e.g. new licensing models like those developed by @abcdinamo and @nan_xyz_ and platforms @fonts_xyz
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⁂ Constellating Typography, my essay that works towards a dialectical approach to typography is now published in Plain Text 2 by @plain_form a publication dedicated to exploratory design.
Order at text.plain-form.com
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The youth mental health crisis speaks to the abnegation of responsibility among adults—liberals and leftists foremost. Expressions of distress in spectacle-oriented activities must be rejected for a mature, radical politics.
@bureaucatliu in Damage today
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Thanks again to everyone who supported the first issue, we hope you'll enjoy this second one as much as we do!
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Featuring :
– Marcus Leis Allion (@_Undt)
– Ksenya Samarskaya (@samarskaya)
– Mardi Forestier
– Tim Brookes (@TBAlphabets)
– Alec Vivier-Reynaud (@AlecVivier)
– Aliona Ciobanu
– HAW Hamburg (@panefarre)
– Simon Renaud (@smnrnd)
– Hervé Aracil (the secret deleuzian type teacher)
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2nd issue is out for pre-orders! 😤
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This second issue is out only 6 months after the first, and we're thrilled to continue on our journey for a weirder and more theoritical field of type design!
The first issue was sold out after just 3 months, thx!
Grok: A Logo a-lóyos
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In this text, I explore how a seemingly simple graphic—the logo for xAI’s Grok—condenses and reveals the ideological logic of contemporary computation.
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Fascinating insights from @hhpapazian
Yes, otherwise they'd work slow on purpose... BTW this is why "logotypes" (sorts of multiple letters) never took off, even though they made great sense: printer's unions opposed the loss of income. Too efficient. :-/
A slide of French "logotypes" from my @ictvc talk of 2004:
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a–
The prefix a– denotes absence, privation, or negation—‘not,’ ‘without,’ or ‘lacking.’ Thus, a–λόγος suggests not mere opposition to reason, but its suspension, suppression, or erasure—a condition in which the relational and reflective capacities of thought are voided.
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Rather than composing a trademark from individual lead sorts, printers cast a single piece bearing the entire word or phrase: a logotype. This method streamlined production, ensured consistency, and marked the industrialisation and commodification of linguistic expression.
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Logos
In typography and printing, the word logo comes from logotype, a compound of logos (word) and typos (mark, impression, or form). The term arose from the practicalities of movable type.
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In ancient philosophy λόγος denotes not only rational discourse but also the underlying order or logic of the cosmos — the structured intelligibility of being.
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λόγος
λόγος (logos) is a richly polysemous Greek term that encompasses a rich array of meanings, from reason, word, speech as well as measure, and account.
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Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming soon
nan.xyz/txt @nan_xyz_
Image: λόγος / logos (letters loosely based on Grok wordmark, designer unknown)
Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming mid-May
nan.xyz/txt @nan_xyz_
Image: Splinter
Not a sign of a synthetic sublime,
but our own over-cohered vision—where accretion irritates, and something slips in.
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Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming mid-May
nan.xyz/txt @nan_xyz_
Image: Computotality
Computotality encloses emergence within recursive capture. What appears as possibility bends back into the system, where resonance is formalised and contingency absorbed.
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Grok: A Logo a-λόγος
New essay coming mid-May
nan.xyz/txt @nan_xyz_
Image: Inversion
David M. Berry’s concept of ‘the Inversion’ describes a major shift in cultural production under the influence of AI and algorithmic systems.
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