Zefir7: Just van Rossum

Daily DrawBot

Thursday 11 February 2016, 20:30 hrs
(door open: 20 hrs)
Location: Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Reservations not needed
Language: English
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Zefir7 is the Monthly Designers Café at Stroom Den Haag i.c.w. BNO Kring Den Haag.

Our special guest this time: Just van Rossum

[From Wikipedia:] Just van Rossum collaborated with fellow Dutch typographer Erik van Blokland* to fuse programming and letterform design in a hack to the PostScript programming language. The result was the FF Beowolf typeface, the first dynamically generated typeface, which modified letterforms on the fly. Using a randomizing algorithm to generate different letter forms each time a letter was printed. FF Beowolf laid the foundation for the FontFont library. [-/-]
*) together they formed Letterror in 1989.

We are proud to have found Just van Rossum prepared to talk in Zefir7 about his Daily DrawBot project, in which he publishes small programmed animations. Mostly abstract, sometimes typographic, these animated gif loops explore algorithms and math as graphic tools.
 
DrawBot is a Python-based tool to help teach programming to visually oriented people.

Just van Rossem teaches type design and coding at KABK, both at the Graphic Design department and at the TypeMedia master program.
 
http://dailydrawbot.tumblr.com

Just van Rossum, 'Curly', 20 January 2016 (one frame from animated gif)
Just van Rossum, 'Voronoi Circles', 29 January 2016 (one frame from animated gif)
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