| | ..'''' | | | .'' | | | ..' | |_______ | ....'' |_______Ludic Interfaces for Scrabble Lovers ------------------------------------ Workshop Linz 2011 ------------------------------------ Text-driven Tools for Graphic Design28.10. + 29.10.2011 11.11. + 12.11.2011 ------------------------------------
The GNU/Linux commandline is a ludic interface, playful, user-generated and user-driven, flexible, low-cost and cooperative*. Nothing but a bunch of plug-ins to be promiscuously plugged into each other. The application can be built, and the solution invented, by users themselves. On the command line, usage seamlessly extends into programming*. It provides functions, not applications; methods, not solutions*. GNU/Linux system utilities are a sort of Lego construction set for word-smiths. Pipes and filters connect one utility to the next, text flows invisibly between. Working with a shell […] is literally a word dance*.
The workshop will provide an introduction to the manipulation of text on the commandline. In combination with text-based document formats this enables unusual workflows for graphic design.
During the workshop participants will invent and built text-driven poster machines. To take part, you just need a certain curiousity about tinkering(DIY). It helps to have some basic knowledge on computers, reading and vector graphic editing. We will provide you with a running GNU/Linux.
Der Workshop bietet einen Einstieg in die Textprozessierung auf der Kommandozeile. In Verbindung mit textbasierten Dateiformaten eröffnen sich so ungewohnte Arbeitssweisen für Grafikdesigner.
Im Laufe des Workshops erfinden und bauen die Teilnehmer textbasierte Plakatmaschinen. Maßgebliche Voraussetzung für die Teilnahme ist eine Affinität zum Selbermachen(DIY). Hilfreich sind außerdem gewisse Grundkenntnisse im Bereich Computer, Lesen und Vektorbearbeitung. Falls nicht vorhanden, wird eine lauffähige GNU/Linux Installation bereitgestellt.
The workshop is made possible and organised by servus.at.
No idea what we’re talking about? See some examples!
By the way
You shouldn’t expect out-of-the-box solutions, for free, like beer and speech, politically more correct than the Creative Suitetm and by the way the next hot shit for human-computer interaction. This workshop will NOT provide you with a newer and better Processing for Typesetting or Desktop Publishing.
This is an introduction, especially for non-programmers, to the world of quick hacks, workarounds and almost-good-enough solutions. Searching, finding and replacing, fundamental principles for computer based text processing and frequently used in forkable tools, becomes here a style of working. Search for a tool, the almost-good-enough solution, hopefully find it and replace what does not fit your needs.
Recommended texts
Elements of Style: UNIX as Literature
In the beginning was the commandline
the UNIX Haters handbook
$(echo echo) echo $(echo): Command Line Poetics