An experiment in the economics of production

R-Echos issue 1 - AMP001

An experiment in the economics of production: how can we shift focus from consumption of a finished product to investment in the processes of design, print & production?

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A poster visualising its own financing process

A few months ago Anna and Mia from Gasworks kindly proposed us to design the poster for the NODE.London spring 2008 season.

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My Current Favourite Typefaces …

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Recently Electronest has been asked to contribute to a nice project; all benefits are going to UNICEF’s Myanmar (Burma) Cyclone Children’s Appeal in the wake of Cyclone Nargis that hit Myanmar on 2nd May 2008.

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Seeing through web works & archived projects

Electronest website has 2 new pages: a selected web works list and an archive. This post is about self representation.

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Sometimes, I would like to speak japanese…

Makin Jan Ma has been kind enough to cite me as one of his friend for an article in the japanese fashion magazine Soen. The magazine’s article is covering his amazing work, and that’s how i ended up part of the creator’s circle in London and depicted à la Tetsuwan Atomu (in english: Astro Boy, in French: Astro le petit robot); I quite like the funny picture.

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Designing Disclosures

Recently Gasworks asked us to design the identity and the printed communication of Disclosures, a seminar and series of events around the notion of openness in art, design, culture…

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A prototype for new typography experiments

The screenshot below shows the ENF-cH-C50a Regular which stands for something like ElectroNest Font - classics Helvetica - Contour 50 angulated. This complex name is pretty much quite good self-explanatory of what happened to the Helvetica font here.

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Electronic presence, a new experiment launched today

Today Pierre and I met; the main aim was to re establish the work process we had before I left the always-connected world. We ended the meeting with considerations on new ways for Electronest to communicate; after a few thoughts we both had since we last considered the topic: how should we talk to people, or in a more marketed way of speaking: how should we (re) brand our communication.

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Being offline for a few days

Being offline for a few days, I will be back very soon - alright and kickin around!
In the meantime, I received this quote of Richard Stallman from Thomas and Pierre…

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Thoughts on a late Tate Friday evening

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It all started by a crack in the floor …
and finally left me wondering about design practice
and collection process with a book about the Vitra Project…

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