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    Come and discuss &1 + R-Echos issue 1

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    We will be (somehow) presents at Publish and Be Damned, tomorrow, Sunday the 3rd of August.

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    An experiment in the economics of production - take 2

    This week we launched publicly a combined set of projects, mainly aimed at producing the R-Echos issue 1. This publication is produced using a new project we are launching as well: &

    We received some interesting feedback and proposals so far. One of them leads me to further the description of the idea behind &

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    Koyaanisqatsi, living technology

    Koyaanisqatsi is a wonderful filmed statement
    on how technology is shaping our world, our lives, our mind…
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    Analog color selection, tangible interface and live performance

    Today Amandine took this picture - it helped me to assemble some thoughts I had, dispersed, lately.

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    A 4 years adventure: Kitsune website, design and development

    It has been 4 years now - that Electronest started with Åbäke to design and redesign the Kitsuné website together on top of the former very first version.

    And this post is a bit of the story behind this ongoing design experiment…

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    ‘Copy, Paste and Meta’ - part 1

    A while ago at Electronest, Pierre and I discussed about an application which could use the clipboard to create a book. Since this, the idea received a bit of attention from my graphic designers friends and this evening it came to my mind that this bit of code was in fact quite close from what Internet was supposed to be if for some reason it didn’t take the path of the World Wild Web, but the path from Xanadu.

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    Time (mis-)conception and discoveries

    Recently I have been asked to create a non obstrusive interface for a kind of GTD - a 5 items list time elapsed representation.

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    I decided to use this a sa pretext to teach myself a bit of Java and to pull the gears on Processing - much more suitable for people like me to learn and develop things.
    This was also the occasion for a brilliant personnal discovery:

    The Time

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    Angula - font’s vectors compression

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    Using already existing tool embed in vector’s software, the objective is to reduce the amount of anchor points and suppress curves to rely solely on as few straight lines as possible to convey the letter’s minimal recognition form.

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