Assembling

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A few months ago, we developed a new website for Build design studio. We worked with Tommi and Marc from Digital Club who art directed and designed the website and with Nicky and Michael from Build who provided feedback and advises all along.

Read more: WeAreBuild: website design, code & 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…

Read more: A 4 years adventure: Kitsune website, design and development

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.

Read more: ‘Copy, Paste and Meta’ - part 1

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

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

Read more: Time (mis-)conception and discoveries

I received this very nice link to a tool which let’s you write upside down via Adam Hayes; it basically allows anyone to switch characters from a text string into either ones which looks like or have been effectively drawn upside down (reversed 180°) in the characters table. In order to see the effect, you have to use a special font (pre-installed), a unicode compatible - no big business it’s pretty much a standard nowadays.

Read more: you are reading upside down - uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıpɐǝɹ ǝɹɐ noʎ

Åbäke and I just released our last collaboration, with the Serpentine Gallery.

Read more: Neveroddoreven - Serpentine Gallery

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KD01k is an edition of the text written by Sun Tzu «The Art of War», this edition is a set of 13 books each of which gives a different approach of this text written in between 4 and 5 BC to the reader. Each volume is a generative re-interpretation based on statistical analysis of the ponctuation. These analyses creates the layout design of the text ‘by itself’ to the abstraction point.

Read more: Sun Tzu - KD01k (memory)

Currently under development, AGS should provide combined with some url rewrite rules (.htaccess) a kind of search box but directly in the url. By using the semantic CMS on the back-end, with a specific element called so far ‘url’ and pre-published (not publicly visible), the administrator has the possibility to influence the guessing system.

Read more: Automatic Guess System - AGS v0.1: cheating search