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			<title>The unit of creative work</title>
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<p>What does it mean to do creative work, when many of the parameters for the work are, by design, as yet undefined?</p>
<p>One useful approach is to timebox the work. Allow for around two and a half hours of dedicated work on The Thing. You&rsquo;ll often need at least an hour just to activate enough of the necessary ingredients before you can start cooking.</p>
<p>When I&rsquo;m making prints that means it takes a good hour for there to be ink on a large enough number of printable elements that allow for interesting combinations to emerge.</p>
<p>Then from that point on there&rsquo;s another hour or so of energy and attention available in which the new thing may happen, the work can be teased to the surface.</p>
<p>Go on longer and mistakes of the kind you don&rsquo;t want will start to happen, possibly ruining that piece that was quite good already.</p>
<p>A session is two and a half hours long, and that takes about three hours. Work through that first hour to activate the materials and ideas, then go with the flow for another hour or so. Then wrap up.</p>
<p>The unit of creative work is a session.</p>
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			<title>VONK 3, studio update 2</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:07:25 +0200</pubDate>
			
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<p>Operational. Maybe not quite finished yet, but operational. Compare this with <a href="/posts/2026/a-place-to-work/">two weeks ago</a>.</p>
<p><a href="/upcoming">Saturday 30 May will be open house at VONK 3</a>. You&rsquo;re invited to drop by and check the state of things in real life!</p>
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			<title>A study for the Little Owl print</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:25:45 +0200</pubDate>
			
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<p>A design study for the Little Owl print. The overall posture and shape are allmost in place here, but as you can see, I was still figuring out the right approach for the eyes and beak. The frontal view made it hard to style the beak and that’s why I <a href="/promos/2026/steenuil/">eventually ended up designing a three-quarter view</a>.</p>
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			<title>A place for work</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:29:47 +0200</pubDate>
			
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    alt="photo of a cozy home office setup with laptop and second monitor and lots of books directly behind."><figcaption>
      <h4>The temporary home office setup.</h4>
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<p>This was the personal studio space since the start of the year. A cozy setup in the attic at home. Always meant to be temporary and indeed, the end of this is in sight as my new space in <a href="https://vonkindewijk.nl/">VONK 3</a> is now ready to be furnished.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2026/vonk3-kaal.webp"
    alt="photo of a very empty small office unit. Some of the carpet floor tiles have been removed."><figcaption>
      <h4>The not quite finished new space.</h4>
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<p>So far I have removed all the carpet tiles, moved in some tables and chairs and put some white paint on the walls.</p>
<p>Very much looking forward to be able to work there.</p>
<p>Update: <a href="/posts/2026/vonk3-studio-update-2/">two weeks later</a>.</p>
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			<title>Bycatch</title>
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<p>Printing to clean the forme gets interesting results at times.</p>
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			<title>Print Play, March, second session</title>
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<p>My <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Print &amp; Play</a> students are very talented.</p>
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			<title>Print &amp; Play, February 2026</title>
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<p>My <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Print &amp; Play</a> students are very talented.</p>
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			<title>Sporadic</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:24:23 +0100</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<p>In the performing arts, the work is described in a form that is different from how it is performed. The score for a piece of music, the script for a play, these function like a recipe for how the performance can executed.</p>
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      <h4>The score for Sporadic.</h4>
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<p>What might the score for a visual work look like? In a way that leaves room for variation in its performance? That question became the starting point for the print series Sporadic. The score consists of a notation of position and rotation for a number of visual modules. By varying the selection of which module is place where, different versions are created. Each time, the score is performed using different instruments.</p>
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      <h4>Sporadic, first flight.</h4>
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<p>Both the score and a couple of different performances of it are on show at the <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/zines">Volume #8 zines exhibition</a> in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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			<title>Koppermaandag 2026</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:31:56 +0100</pubDate>
			
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    alt="Scan of a printed postcard. A big yellow circle with a stylized, partical print of a small bird. The text spot uit, licht aan is printed in dark text bottom left of center.">
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<p>Due to unforseen extra busy-ness last December and January I just about managed to create my <a href="https://www.royscholten.nl/project/koppermaandag/">Koppermaandag print</a> for this year. At least in the week that it should have been shared. First Monday after the Christian feast day of Epiphany is the  date for this printers&rsquo; new year tradition. I finished mine the Friday after so that I could at least hand out a few at the new years drinks in the printmaking studio.</p>
<p>Of course, <a href="https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2026/01/koppermaandag-and-artisanal-knowledge-work/">Ton <em>was</em> on time, on Monday January 12</a>, finding a playful connection between Personal Knowledge Management and his own (Personal) KopperMaandag print.</p>
<p>As for mine, it was an exercise in layering multiple layers of inks of the oil based type, which I do have less experience with compared to the water based ones. It re-uses a small bird motif I designed <a href="https://www.royscholten.nl/work/practicum/regulus-ignicappilla/">for another project</a>. Since it was an experiment printing wise, I of course couldn&rsquo;t help myself and printed all kinds of variations just to see what happens.</p>
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    alt="Seven versions of the print discussed.">
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<p>The Dutch text is an inversion of our version of <em>lights, camera, action</em>. A literal translation would be <em>spot off, lights on</em>.</p>
<p>Yes, the other way around. Because ‘spot’ also means mockery.</p>
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			<title>Donations from print sales in 2025</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/posts/2026/donations-2025/</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:47:16 +0100</pubDate>
			
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<p>Over the course of 2025 I reserved 10% of the proceeds from two specific prints to be donated to a charity. The idea: not only make good work, make the work do good as well.</p>
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<li>The <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/small-things/small-things-1/"><em>Small things, 1</em></a> print resulted in a €105,- donation to the <a href="https://radboudoncologiefonds.nl/">Radboud Oncologie Fund</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/falconidae/common-kestrel-white/"><em>Common Kestrel print</em></a> made possible a €195,- donation to <a href="https://sovon.nl/">Sovon</a>.</li>
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<p>2025 was the year of the Kestrel in The Netherlands. This year there’s extra attention for the Little Owl. Well, I already made that print in 2019. One last print from that edition is still available. If that sells this year then another donation to Sovon will be made. Who grabs it?</p>
<p>The same arrangement stays in place for the <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/small-things/small-things-1/"><em>Small things, 1</em></a> print. As long as supplies last.</p>
<p>Thank you very much!</p>
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			<title>Print &amp; Play December 2025, session 2</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:01:54 +0100</pubDate>
			
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<p>Kickstart your own creative practice with some experimental printmaking: <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">join the Print &amp; Play sessions</a> at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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			<title>Print Play Session 3 November 2025</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:58:47 +0100</pubDate>
			
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    alt="Three A5 sized prints standing against on a dark table, against a white wall. From left to right: a big red E with a partial, structured dark gray circle behind it. Then a print in landscape orientation with two christmas trees in white, the left on against a red, the right one against a blue background. The word christmas in black type along the top. The last one is covered in a organic blue pattern of repeating christmas tree shapes, but it almost looks like a dark ice floor. Over all that a big, simple line drawing in white of a cat.">
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<p>My <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen/print-play/">Print &amp; Play</a> students are very talented.</p>
<p>Want to make some experiments of your own? <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Join the Print &amp; Play sessions</a> at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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			<title>Hilversum Method crowdfunding update</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Around four weeks ago we started the <a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode">crowdfunding campaign for The Hilversum Method</a>, our second book about LEGO® letterpress. It&rsquo;s been truly heartwarming to read the comments by the crowdfunding supporters. Thank you thank you!</p>
<p><a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode"><figure class="right"><img src="/img/dhm-cover-klein-en.jpg">
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<p>I also print with LEGO bricks, here in the USA. I have always loved your work and you continue to inspire me with your beautiful prints!</p>
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<p>Great artists and fabtastic project!</p>
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<p>We printed with Roy &amp; Martijn in 2024: they are creative, talented, and generous printers; you will not go wrong supporting their campaign.</p>
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<p>We&rsquo;re almost 80% of the way there. If you&rsquo;ve been considering to support the project but haven&rsquo;t yet: we&rsquo;ve added two special edition prints to the campaign.</p>
<h2 id="peace-by-piece">Peace by piece</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode"><figure><img src="/img/peace-by-piece.jpg"
    alt="Stylized black and white print of a dove, seen from the side, facing left.">
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<p>This motif was part of the design process for the <a href="https://www.royscholten.nl/work/50-birds/eurasian-collared-dove/">Collared Dove</a>. I felt it deserved to be developed into a standalone print. Voila. It is available as part of <a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode">the crowdfunding campaign for The Hilversum Method</a>.</p>
<h2 id="qunz-elementa-poster-by-martijn">QUNZ Elementa poster by Martijn</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode"><figure><img src="/img/qunz-elementa-poster.jpg">
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<p>En nog een prent, speciaal gemaakt voor de crowdfunding campagne is deze typografische poster gemaakt door kunstbroeder <a href="https://martijnvanderblom.com/">Martijn van der Blom</a>. Hij ontwikkelde de afgelopen jaren de QUNZ letter-familie. Op deze handgedrukte poster de onderkast letters van de QUNZ Elementa.</p>
<h2 id="see-you-this-saturday">See you this Saturday?</h2>
<p>Curious to learn more about The Hilversum Method? <a href="/posts/2025/open-lab-29-november/">Come by this Saturday at our Open Lab</a>.</p>
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			<title>Open Lab: The Hilversum Method, November 29</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:11:57 +0100</pubDate>
			
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<p>Martijn and Roy are working on their second book on printing with LEGO®. This time, in <a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode">The Hilversum Methode</a> they <em>will</em> explain how they do it :-)</p>
<p>During this <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/agenda/open-lab-de-hilversumse-methode/">Open Lab</a> on Saturday November 29 you get a peek behind the scenes of the production process of this special new publication</p>
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<p>Dinosaurs are a recurring theme we use in our research of this technique. They appeal to the imagination with their extreme shapes. Long tails, massive heads, protrusions in weird places&hellip; Lots of design fun to be had there. So that&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;ll be focusing on during this open lab. Come and see!</p>
<p>And if you want, you can print a dino card yourself.</p>
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<h2 id="presentation-on-the-hilversum-method">Presentation on The Hilversum Method</h2>
<p><strong>At 15:00 we will give a presentation</strong> with more background on this unique way of designing and printing.</p>
<p>Meet the artists in their natural habitat! You are allowed to feed them!</p>
<p>Free entry at the Noorderweg 96b, from 11am to 4pm on Saturday November 29.</p>
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			<title>Print International Ty Pawb</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:21:08 +0100</pubDate>
			
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<p>Last Friday I attended the opening of this printmaking exhibition in Wrexham, Wales. On show is a diverse yet consistently high quality selection of works from printmaking studios from all over the United Kingdom, accompanied by <em>Printing in Dutch</em>, a selection of works created in The Netherlands.</p>
<p>Many thanks to <em>Printing in Dutch</em> curator Ed Catley for this opportunity.</p>
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      <h4>Curator Ed Catley, Wrexham mayor Tina Mannering, and yours truly.</h4>
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<p>Printing in Dutch is now on show at:</p>
<p><a href="https://www.typawb.wales/event/print-international-2025/">Print International</a><br>
08.11.2025 - 24.01.2026<br>
Ty Pawb, Wales</p>
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<p>We&rsquo;re making our second book on printmaking with LEGO® pieces.</p>
<p>The first one is <a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/werk/lego-letterpress/lego-letterpress-boek/">Print &amp; Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress</a>, which showcases works that Martijn and I have made over the years.</p>
<p>Since then, we regularly get questions about how we do this. That&rsquo;s where <a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode">The Hilversum Method</a> comes in. We&rsquo;re going to explain the technical how, ponder the philosophical why and share the joy that is embedded in this way of designing, building and printing.</p>
<p>Please, <a href="https://www.voordekunst.nl/projecten/19896-boek-de-hilversumse-methode">have a look, and support this project if you can</a>. Thank you!</p>
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    alt="Photo of four prints on A5 paper, portrait orientation. All abstract compositions. The first one suggests a black mask maybe, with touches of soft pink. The second one could be a path through the woods, with a tree on either side and a soft pink puff inbetween. The third has a bright pink background with a composition of multiple letters m and z in mintblue on top. The same composition in dark gray on the fourth print that has geometric line art in softer grays as the background.">
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<p>Letterpress with wood type is the main ingredient for the second session of my Print &amp; Play workshop. Using the relatively large letters as shapes. <a href="/posts/2025/print-play-2025-11-session-1/">Monoprints from the first session</a> provide interesting starting points for adding more layers.</p>
<p>Want to try as well? <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Join the Print &amp; Play sessions</a> at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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    alt="Proof print of a poster with the text Interconnected Planetary Planetary Interconnected">
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<p>Currently working on this poster. Have to print this in two runs because not enough letters ‘c’ and ,‘t’ to spell these four words all in one go.</p>
<p>That means the technical challenge here is to build a forme that allows for moving the type around within it, exactly so that the words end up in the right place.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/interconnected-planetary-forme.jpg"><figcaption>
      <h4>These two rectangular blocks can be swapped.</h4>
    </figcaption>
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<p>After some measurements before printing and corrections of those measurements after printing tests, I got the text into a nice position on the paper.</p>
<p>There’s bit more kerning to do before starting production. Not much I can do about that LA combination, but IN, NNE and NE need a bit more air between them I think. And  replace that grainy O.</p>
<p>There’s a TA combination in there as well which normally creates more than enough white space inbetween them. I was already using a letter T which had a part sawed off when I thought ‘wait a minute, that’s probably because of&hellip;’ and indeed, there was an A that had a notch sawed off exactly so that the TA combination could be made more compact:</p>
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			<title>Finissage of the ‘elementair’ exhibition on October 19</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>This Sunday is the last day of my exhibition <em>elementair</em> in ontwerpfabriekje in Hilversum. I&rsquo;ll be there from 2pm to 5pm. If you’ve been thinking to go and have a look then this would be the moment. You’re very welcome!</p>
<figure><img src="/img/elementair-finissage.jpg"
    alt="poster in black and white with a black bar over it, with in yellow letters the text laatste dag: zondag 19 oktober, 14 - 17u. Welkom!">
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    alt="Three framed prints mounted on a wooden plank, hanging against a white wall.">
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<p>Can&rsquo;t exhibit in a location called the little design factory and not show some design/process pieces.</p>
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<p>The 2025 International Original Print Exhibition, an open submission exhibition established by the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers which celebrates the best in all types of contemporary printmaking.</p>
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<p><a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/falconidae/common-kestrel-gray/">The Common Kestrel</a> and <a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/project/blauwborst/">Bluethroat</a> prints are part of this <a href="https://www.re-printmakers.com/exhibitions/43/overview/">group exhibition</a> in the <a href="https://www.banksidegallery.com/exhibitions/142-international-original-print-exhibition-2025/overview/">Bankside Gallery</a></p>
<p>On show November 6 to 16, 2025.</p>
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<p>The Natural Eye, the annual exhibition of the <a href="https://swla.co.uk/">Society of Wildlife Artists</a>, showcases the very best of fine art inspired by the natural world.</p>
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<p>Two of my recent bird prints will be on display in this group exhibition at the Mall Galleries in central London: <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/bluethroat/bluethroat/">Bluethroat</a> and <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/falconidae/common-kestrel-white/">Common Kestrel</a></p>
<p>The exhibition runs 16 Oct - 25 Oct 2025, open every day from 10am to 5pm.</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/exhibitions-events/society-wildlife-artists-natural-eye-2025">the exhibition website</a>.</p>
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    alt="photo of four small, portrait oriented prints in mostly black, white and gray shades. The third one has a bright orange background."><figcaption>
      <h4>monoprints</h4>
    </figcaption>
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<p>My Print &amp; Play participants are very talented. These are a few of the results from the first of three sessions. Using monoprint techniques for experiments and quick iterations.</p>
<p><a href="/posts/2025/print-play-2025-10-s2/">Here&rsquo;s session 2</a>.</p>
<p>Want to try as well? <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Join the Print &amp; Play sessions</a> at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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    alt="neatly ordered wood type of the sans serif, condensed variety.">
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<p>The collection of wood type letters at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum has grown significantly over the last couple of years. From really big ass type to medium sized workhorsel sans serifs and elegant Jugendstil specimens.</p>
<p>But, we don’t know yet what the condition is of each set. Complete? Damaged? Does it need cleaning?</p>
<figure class="left"><img src="/img/schappen-page003.jpg">
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<p>On Thursday evenings I’ll be working on this part of the letter collection. Sorting type, setting and printing proofs, arrange the workspace and the necessary materials.</p>
<p>Does that sound like something you’d like to help with? The objective is to steadily make productive progress without rushing things. There’s a lot of material to review. We’ll take it step by step.</p>
<p>Interested? I&rsquo;ll be in the printmaking studio, Noorderweg 96b, Hilversum, on Thursdays between 7.30 and 10pm. I’m looking for two people who want to volunteer their time to help with this. Of course you can’t know that beforehand, so <a href="mailto:info@royscholten.nl">contact me</a> and we’ll make an appointment for a first Thursday visit.</p>
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    alt="Photo of part of a street with a busy selection of lines, markings, tiles and shadows."><figcaption>
      <h4>Grevenmacher, Luxemburg.</h4>
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						<![CDATA[<figure><img src="/img/2025-print-international-poster.jpg"
    alt="Poster for the Print International exhibition. Lots of yellow dots. Text in both Welsh and English">
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<p>Pleased to announce that a few of my prints will be part of the <em>Printing in Dutch</em> selection in the <a href="https://www.typawb.wales/event/print-international-2025/">Print International</a> exhibition at Tŷ Pawb in Wrexham, Wales.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.typawb.wales/event/print-international-2025/"><figure class="left"><img src="/img/logo-printing-in-dutch.png"
    alt="logo Printing in Dutch in red distorted type.">
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</a></p>
<p>Also featuring works from:</p>
<ul>
<li>East London Printmakers</li>
<li>Constructure</li>
<li>Red Plate Press</li>
<li>Regional Print Centre</li>
<li>Spike Print Studio</li>
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<p>The exhibition will run from November 8 till January 24, 2026.</p>
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    alt="photo of a left hand holding a set of envelopes, seen from above.">
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<p>I have here 25 original prints for the first 25 visitors to <a href="/posts/2025/exhibition-elementair/">the opening of my exhibition</a> this Friday. Hope to see you there!</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>On Friday September 5th, the exhibition <em>Elementair</em> opens at Ontwerpfabriekje in Hilversum.</p>
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<p>Next to several recent bird prints, works from the new Street Spirits series will be on display as well. These prints are made with materials found on the street. Brought together in various combinations, these discarded forms are brought back to life.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/elementair-foto-street-spirits.jpg"
    alt="Photo of four framed prints in abstract black and white, mounted on a plank against a white wall.">
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<h2 id="programme">Programme</h2>
<ul>
<li>Opening on Friday, September 5th, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM</li>
<li>Sunday, September 14th, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: Presentation on the bird prints and the Hilversum Method for LEGO Letterpress</li>
<li><strong>Fully booked</strong> Sunday, September 28th, 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM: <a href="/posts/2025/elementair-monoprint-workshop/">Monoprinting workshop</a>, printing with found materials</li>
<li>Sunday, October 19th, 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM: Finissage.</li>
</ul>
<p>You are cordially invited to attend the opening on Friday, September 5. For more information or viewings at other times, <a href="mailto:info@royscholten.nl">please contact us</a>.</p>
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    alt="brown bird with a long tail, seen from the side, facing left. Light gray head with a black vertical mark under its eye.">
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<p>New print! The very sophisticated Bearded Tit, the acrobat in the reeds. Its tail too long to fit in the format of the 50 birds series. So not then, but now. As you can see, <em>Bearded Tit</em> is a fitting name as it clearly has a moustache…</p>
<figure class="left"><img src="/img/2025-bearded-tit-formes-numbering.jpg"
    alt="Stacked lego plates with a gray dot on each to indicate the order of printing.">
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<p>Its wing was the complex bit this time. I wanted to show those partially overlapping wingtips. Getting those right, and the colour pattern there, required quite a few studies. And so this time I ended up with twelve separate print runs.</p>
<p>Dimensions: 17 x 24 cm, edition: 35 prints. Price: €125,-. Order yours <a href="https://mnbrd.com/p/ZEkWey51Pad8">here</a>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><em>Falco Tinnunculus / Common Kestrel / Turmfalke / Faucon crécerelle</em></p>
<figure><img src="/img/torenvalk-grijs-1600.jpg"
    alt="Stylized image of a kestrel, printed on gray paper. The bird sits with its back to us, looking to the left. The head is gray with light cheeks and a slightly darker stripe below the eye. The back is reddish brown with black spots. The wingtips are black, tapering to a point and just crossing over the gray tail, which also ends in black.">
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<p>The Common Kestrel is the Dutch bird of the year 2025. It still is one of the most frequently seen birds of prey in the Netherlands. But even the kestrel is finding it increasingly difficult to survive in a depleting landscape.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/2025-torenvalk-schets-biddend.jpg"
    alt="Two small and simple pen sketches of hovering kestrels.">
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<p>The kestrel is a mouse-eater par excellence. Its hunting method is its hallmark: some ten or fifteen meters above the ground, hovering in the air (in Dutch: <em>praying</em>), searching for prey.</p>
<p>Birds of prey have been my favorite birds from childhood. That fierce, built-in scowl, the mighty bright yellow talons, that almost armor-like yellow patch around the nostril (called <em>cera</em>, I just looked it up). And just imagine their view on things. High in the sky, slowly circling and gliding on wings of, important fact, a certain wingspan.</p>
<p>And so, birds of prey in LEGO letterpress had been on the wish list for some time already. There&rsquo;s an early buzzard in the 50 Birds series, a hawk, and a little owl, but the focus there was primarily on the smaller songbirds. Those were simply better suited to the small format.</p>
<p>As characteristic as that mid-air hovering may be, I couldn&rsquo;t quite manage to depict the kestrel in that pose! The wings are at odd angles, viewed from a very foreshortened perspective, and with the less intensely colored undersides visible. Difficult.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-torenvalk-grijs-perspectief.jpg"
    alt="Detail photo of the print with focus on the pattern on the back.">
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<p>No, much better to show it in such a way that highlights the pattern of black spots on the male&rsquo;s reddish-brown back. (The female is really beautiful too!)</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-torenvalk-patroon.jpg"
    alt="Een abstract patroon van kleine cirkels met daaronder kwart-cirkels met de punt naar boven gericht.">
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<p>That motif for those black spots became a printing form that itself yielded an interesting graphic image. So I printed it several times as a standalone print.</p>
<h2 id="the-common-kestrel-print">The Common Kestrel print</h2>
<figure><img src="/img/torenvalk-wit-1600.jpg"
    alt="Prent van de torenvalk op zo goed als wit papier"><figcaption>
      <h4>The print was made using eleven printing runs.</h4>
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<p>I printed two editions:</p>
<ul>
<li>25 copies on white, 638-gram Saunders Waterford paper</li>
<li>25 copies on warm gray, 160-gram Canson Mi-Teintes paper</li>
</ul>
<p>The dimensions are 30.5 by 23 centimeters.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-torenvalk-ingelijst.jpg"
    alt="Photo of a framed print. Thin matte aluminum border. A pencil is placed next to it to indicate scale."><figcaption>
      <h4>Works well in a 30 by 40 cm frame, as you can see.</h4>
    </figcaption>
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<p>Price: €275. This includes the mat, but excludes the frame.</p>
<h3 id="buy-a-print-support-the-research">Buy a print, support the research</h3>
<p>I will donate ten percent of the proceeds from selling this print to Sovon to support this important work. <a href="https://www.royscholten.nl/news/2025/common-kestrel-sovon-promotion">Read more about that here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="mailto:roy@royscholten.nl?subject=Torenvalk%20prent">Want to buy one of the original prints? Contact me</a>.</p>
<h2 id="design-notes">Design notes</h2>
<p>The question was how different it would be to work on a larger scale. Would that offer more freedom? Would more be possible? Would something perhaps be lost?</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-torenvalk-grijs-detail-kop.jpg"
    alt="Detail of the beak and head. There&#39;s a slight gradient from light cream to gray on the cheek.">
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<p>In the last few prints of <em>50 birds</em>, I had found a way to place elements at angles other than 0, 54, or 90 degrees. These extra possibilities quickly proved useful in designing the hobby and kestrel. They have larger wings that end at a pointy slant. The tail also needed to be angled differently for a balanced pose.</p>
<p>The larger dimensions, combined with those unusual angles, made the design process considerably more complex. Finding the right shapes and fine-tuning their proportions required numerous test prints. Even those initial test prints for the overall shape quickly required multiple printing plates, precisely because of those unusually angled elements in the types. Because, as always, where the shapes overlap, they can&rsquo;t be printed simultaneously.</p>
<p>Bigger sizes also offer more room for detail. But those spaces weren&rsquo;t necessarily easy to fill. I suddenly needed one and a half thicknesses, or circles in an intermediate size that wasn&rsquo;t available.</p>
<p>The way I could stylize the designs in <em>50 Birds</em> didn&rsquo;t transfer directly to this larger format. Clearly, a matter of working at a different resolution.</p>
<hr>
<p>2025-10-30: <em>There’s an extended version of this post <a href="https://peopleofprint.com/general/roy-scholten-and-the-common-kestrel-a-flight-of-craft-and-precision/">on the People of Print blog</a></em>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Five things for this week:</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.foldnfly.com/">A database of paper airplanes</a> with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans.</p>
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<p>I find this a <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/letterformarchive.org/post/3loeaedjze22n">spectacularly cool, modern use of initials and blackletter</a>. It&rsquo;s on show in <a href="https://letterformarchive.org/news/10-by-10-for-10-exhibition/#gallery-2-1">this exhibition</a> at the Letterform Archive.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://yoroy.eu/@dbellingradt@historians.social/114420558553518958">largest bible page was printed in Mainz</a>, Germany the other day. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/i3fCol-RD2k">Video</a></p>
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<p>Also in German: well produced and researched radio documentaries, each around three hours long at <a href="https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/lange-nacht-102.html">Lange Nacht</a>.</p>
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<blockquote>
<p>This <a href="https://victionary.com/collections/art-design/products/avian-inspiration?variant=47546127909106">book on birds in art and illustration</a> looks quite nice :-)</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Groetjes,<br>
Roy</p>
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      <h4>My Print &amp; Play students are very talented.</h4>
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<p>The first of three sessions in the printmaking studion, starting with experiments in monoprint.</p>
<p>From subtly shaded landscapes to whirls of string and studies in complex patterns. As always, the personality of the maker seems to find its way into the work.</p>
<p>The assignment is to make twenty prints each. That seems like a lot in the beginning but usually everybody easily hits that target. It helps that I don&rsquo;t allow prints to be thrown away.</p>
<p>Two reasons: 1) you don&rsquo;t decide in the moment of making. 2) even the crappiest piece can be used as a starting point for next weeks session. Which is all about letterpress with wood type.</p>
<p>Want to try as well? <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Join the Print &amp; Play sessions</a> at Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>When you share, with whom are you sharing? With the others in your (social) network, sure. But with the owner of the platform on which you share your work as well.</p>
<p>Change <em>share</em> into <em>publish</em> and <em>content</em> into <em>work</em>: don&rsquo;t share content but publish your work.</p>
<p>Yes, you can take it that seriously. So. <em>Where do you publish your work?</em></p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Vorige week in opwelling gekocht in de lokale boekenwinkel, vandaag begonnen te lezen: <a href="https://www.uitgeverijtenhave.nl/boek/over-het-verdwijnen-van-rituelen/">Over het verdwijnen van rituelen</a> door Byung-Chul Han.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/2025-rituelen-byung-chul.jpg"
    alt="Aantekeningen in potlood op de achterste lege pagina&#39;s van een klein boek.">
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<p>Ben nog onderweg, maar alleen al de notie van <em>rituelen als symbolische technieken om thuis te raken in de tijd</em> maken dit boekje zeer de moeite waard.</p>
<p>Was al weer even geleden dat ik mezelf de rust van in de stoel zitten en te lezen gunde.</p>
<p>Nou, bingo:</p>
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<p>Aandacht is het natuurlijke gebed van de ziel - Malebranche</p>
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<p>Herhaling stabiliseert en verdiept de aandacht.</p>
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<p>Drempels transformeren. Aan gene zijde is het andere, het vreemde. Zonder de fantasie en betovering van de drempel bestaat alleen de hel van het gelijke.</p>
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<p>Prettig weekend!</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Volgend weekend, <a href="https://waddenvogelfestival.nl">10 &amp; 11 mei is het Waddenvogelfestival</a> in De Cocksdorp op Texel. Er is dan van alles te doen over en met de vogels van de Wadden. Dit keer met extra speciale aandacht voor de duinen als kwetsbaar leefgebied. Daarom <a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/werk/50-vogels/tapuit/">de Tapuit</a> als mascotte dit jaar.</p>
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    alt="Waddenvogelfestival, 10 &amp; 11 mei 2025">
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<p>Ik sta dat weekend met een stand op de <a href="https://waddenvogelfestival.nl/vogelaarsmarkt/">BirdFair</a> en neem een aantal vogelprenten, boeken en ansichtkaarten mee natuurlijk.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-wadden-loterij.jpg"
    alt="Een boek, magazine en ansichtkaarten op witte achtergrond in matige belichting gefotografeerd.">
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<p>Er is ook een <a href="https://waddenvogelfestival.nl/loterij-voor-het-goede-doel/">loterij</a> voor het goede doel (die duinvogels dus), en daar zijn heel toffe prijzen te winnen. Daarvoor heb ik een pakket samengesteld met het <em><a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/werk/lego-letterpress/lego-letterpress-boek/">Print &amp; Play</a></em> boek, de zine <em><a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/werk/bildung/bildung-3/">Van de kneu en de drieteenstrandloper</a></em>, een set van 12 ansichtkaarten en nog wat extra <em>dingetjes</em>.</p>
<p>Zaterdag om 11 uur <a href="https://waddenvogelfestival.nl/lezingen/">vertel ik over het <em>50 vogels</em> project</a> met een presentatie in de grote tent op het Waterplein.</p>
<p>Dus. Voor wie zal ik alvast een prent van de Tapuit meenemen?  10% van de opbrengst uit verkoop dat weekend doneer ik aan <a href="https://waddenvogelfestival.nl/goede-doel/ons-goede-doel-2025/">het goede doel van het festival</a>.</p>
<p>Tot daar!</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>If I’d write a blog post today it would be about following your interest and really pushing that as far as possible. Niche, more niche, no even more. And there, right on the edge of things, you’ll find you can apply that specialty anywhere. Your expertise in some hyper specific domain becomes a lens through wich you can bring a unique approach to related or even wholly different topics.</p>
<p>Brought to you by:</p>
<ul>
<li>“Expertise doesn’t scale. It sharpens. It concentrates.” – <a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/experience-doesnt-stack-the-myth-of-collective-knowledge/">Joan Westenberg</a></li>
<li><em>The World of Rare Books – An Evening with Dr. Paul Dijstelberge</em> in <a href="https://aabookstore.com/">The Amsterdam Antiquarian Bookstore</a>.</li>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Five things for this week:</p>
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<p>We document <a href="https://unseen-women.design/en/designerinnen">the biographies and works of women graphic designers, typographers, book designers, and illustrators from the years 1865 to 1919</a>, before Bauhaus, in German-speaking countries.</p>
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<p><a href="https://velvetyne.fr/news/support-opensource-signs-1/">Submit your idea of a typographical project</a> before the 15th of May and get the chance to have it released on Velvetyne and receive support from our team and a tuition of 1800€.</p>
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<p>An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-025-02584-1">Writing is your job. Nothing else</a>.</p>
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<p>We want your inner noise. Just <a href="https://tilde.zone/@ftrain/109529280068643335">push the gas on your own ephemeralism</a> and launch us into the future.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://www.guildmedmak.com/">Guild of Medievalist Makers</a> - A society for medievalist academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work. With the <a href="https://creativecritical.net/">Creative Critical website</a> as an interesting link in the suggested reading section.</p>
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<p>Enjoy!</p>
<p>Groetjes,<br>
Roy</p>
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<p><em>On the day of the funeral a dead Blue tit lay on the ground. Right in front of the door through which dad would leave his house for the very last time.</em></p>
<p>The title is <em>Small things</em> because of his motto. Whenever he&rsquo;d done something with a bit too much enthousiasm, or made a clumsy mistake: <em>Oh well, you&rsquo;ll always have small things</em> (that go wrong).</p>
<p>A few years ago we were all making things in the printmaking studio. Family outing with mom, dad, brother &amp; wife, and the four of us. Dad set and printed his motto in wood type. This March, it made it onto his funeral card:</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-kleine-dingen-kaart.jpg"
    alt="A card standing next to a small lighted candle.">
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<p>Making <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/small-things/small-things-1/">the print of the Blue Tit</a> is both processing and a way to get back into the groove. It was good to be printing again, working in the studio. <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/small-things/small-things-1/">I printed thirty</a> and will donate 10% of the proceeds to the oncology department of the Radboud UMC.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>With the <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/programma/2024/600-karakters/">600 Characters project</a> Grafisch Atelier Hilversum joined in on the 600th birthday of the city of Hilversum. We made a series of 40 posters, each poster using a grid of 5 by 3 squares. 5 times 3 is 15, and 40 times 40 is 600, you see.</p>
<p>All those characters were made with people from Hilversum. Visitors, school kids, students and passersby.</p>
<p>I designed one of these posters as well. I cut up photocopies of the letters A, B and C. These were proof prints made from the wood type collection of the printmaking studio. Some real beauties in there! Through cutting, moving things around and pasting them (a.k.a. &lsquo;collage&rsquo;) all kinds of figures showed up. Characters!</p>
<p>See, like so:</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2025-600-karakters-poster-letterfiguren.jpg"
    alt="A portrait format poster with a grid in black lines, outlining 5 by 3 squares. In each square there&#39;s a mostly black figure, sometimes looking like a robot, human or animal.">
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<p>The Proloog organisation, coordinator of cultural education in Hilversum was excited about the project, about this and other posters. After some significant additional development that all turned into <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/proloog-hilversum-329ab3318_karakters-mijnid-proloog-activity-7303076957452222468-IRqa">these lesson boxes</a> (warning: Dutch! Linkedin!)</p>
<p>And that&rsquo;s how the one project begets the next.</p>
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<h3 id="another-month-another-edition-of-print--play-in-the-printmaking-studio">Another month, another edition of Print &amp; Play in the printmaking studio.</h3>
<figure><img src="/img/pplay-001-feb-2025.jpg"
    alt="Abstract monoprint on A5 paper with broad diagonal strokes. A white square shape masks part of the underlying gray area, but the circle inside it exposes it again.">
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<p>During the first evening we work on abstract monoprint experiments. Shape and negative shape, on a black and on a white background, working from high to low contrast.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/pplay-005-feb-2025.jpg"
    alt="The word Boekje (little book) is printed in a light green ink on white A5 paper.">
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<p>Then, composing with wood type. Initially on new sheets of paper to see the direct results.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/pplay-002-feb-2025.jpg"
    alt="Multiple white shapes against a black bacground are overprinted with, on the left, type that suggests a smiley face, and a big yellow letter J on the right.">
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<p>After some adjustments, maybe use it as a second layer on one of last weeks’ prints as well.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/pplay-003-feb-2025.jpg"
    alt="Multiple small shapes in white and green on a bright blue background.">
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<p>And then there’s multiple colors as additional design aspect to consider!</p>
<figure><img src="/img/pplay-004-feb-2025.jpg"
    alt="The text I can&#39;t find your face is printed in green over an abstract textured monoprint in dark gray with some white areas on the left.">
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<p>Such a talented group, again. Looking forward to what will be created during the third session.</p>
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<p>Explore the basics of monoprint and letterpress printing in three evening sessions with the Print &amp; Play workshop. It&rsquo;s an accessible introduction to printmaking techniques. We work in a small group of max 6 participants. The ideal (re)start for your own creative practice!</p>
<p>Welcome to join! <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen/print-play/">More information on the Grafisch Atelier Hilversum site</a>.</p>
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<p>Raise your hand at a meeting and voila, a project: 650 &lsquo;Copper monday&rsquo; prints please, thank you.</p>
<p>Well, lets get to work then.</p>
<p>Topic for the design had to be the foundations fiftieth birthday of course. Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge translates as Foundation Printing in the Margin. For the design I took both &rsquo;the margin&rsquo; and &lsquo;in&rsquo; literally, visually. Which gave me that vertical line, in the same red-ish pink that you still find in your exercise book. That line then provided the base for positioning the other bits of text, where &lsquo;in the margin&rsquo; had to end up exactly in that margin. Of course it wouldn&rsquo;t be a print made at our studio without a bit of LEGO Letterpress using the Hilversum Method. The number 50 uses customised versions of the numerals in the QUNZ type family designed by Martijn van der Blom.</p>
<p>All of that made this a technical exercise in exact positioning. So that line exactly vertical. So that the blue text would print exactly right over the red line (which I managed to achieve in one go). So that the smallest text would really be inside the margin (which required adjustments when the forme was alreay in the press), etcetera.</p>
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<p>The first print run was for just that red line. Width 1 cicero, exactly 25 cicero from the left side of the paper. Even after more than six hundred prints that line was still in that same position. The combination of a thousand kilos worth of printing press and the razor-sharp precision you can achieve with it is truly fascinating.</p>
<p>The second print run added the blue text. I was chuffed when it immediately showed up in the right place because I had correctly calculated my points and ciceros. The third and final print run in black used the most complex forme. Combining small, subtle type with the relatively large solid areas of the LEGO numerals and getting both to print nicely was challenging.</p>
<p>And we changed presses for this third run, moving from the manually operated Vandercook to the electrically driven Grafix. A smaller and faster press which perhaps was a bit more suited for this challenging forme. Not only getting everything to print evenly was challenging. Calculations made during composition turned out to be miscalculations this time. A few points of line height had to be shuffled around to get things aligned nicely. Eventually we sorted that out as well. My thanks to Thomas and Martijn for their help with this part, and producing all those copies.</p>
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<li>The paper used is 90 gsm A3 biotop. Maybe this light weight can help save on postage :)</li>
<li>Getting 700 sheets <em>out</em> of the drying rack and stacking them is work, too. Nothing is &lsquo;quickly&rsquo; with these numbers.</li>
<li>You need quite a bit of drying rack anyway&hellip;</li>
<li>Speed of manual printing was around three sheets per minute, around 180 per hour. On the semi-automatic press that was around 250 sheets per hour.</li>
<li>You get the sheet including &lsquo;gripper white&rsquo; and all. That too is (in the) margin.</li>
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<p>Congratulations to the board members of <a href="https://drukwerkindemarge.org/">Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge</a>, to all contributors and printers in the low countries. Here&rsquo;s to the next fifty years!</p>
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<p>The original <a href="/nl/posts/2025/koppermaandag-didm/">Dutch version</a> of this article first appeared in the Drukwerk in de Marge <em>Newsletter nr. 191</em></p>
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<p>In 2024 I made a conscious effort to learn more about and get better at traditional letterpress printing. Although the principles are the same (because principles, duh), the distinction between small type and large type is useful to me.</p>
<h2 id="small-type">Small type</h2>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/bildung-4-hildegard-zetsel.jpg"
    alt="A small column of lead type bound together with a piece of string.">
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<p>To improve my skills in working with lead type I joined the Poetry on the Press programma at Atelier t. in Belgium, last May. A full week of setting and printing small type. 12 Point Palatino to be exact. More on this very rewarding experience <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/2024/poezie-op-de-pers/">here</a> (in Dutch).</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/to-be-continue.jpg"
    alt="detail of print with text in different small sizes. Ornament shapes suggest jellyfish.">
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<p>Inspired by what I learned there I designed and produced the ‘to be, continue’ print in our own letterpress workshop. Hey while we’re at it, why not try and use 8 point type? The first version of this design was printed on A5 sized sheets, as part of a collection made for the 2025 edition of <a href="https://letterpressworkers.com/">Letterpress Workers</a> in Milan. In the second edition I used a much taller format that allowed for more space and more jellyfish!</p>
<p>Since I’m mostly still learning all this I’ve collected these prints under the <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/practicum/"><em>Practium</em> project here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="large-type">Large type</h2>
<p>Designing posters is how I discover the possibilities of our wood type collection. Primary use case: GAH exhibition posters, and <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/2024/make-posters/">a smaller version</a> of <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/2022/when-in-doubt/">one I made earlier</a>.</p>
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<p>This Zines poster might have happened at the tail end of 2023 but I’m including it anyway. A small catalogue of typographic options in itself.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/50-vogels-posters.jpg">
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<p>Most of the promotion material for my 50 birds exhibition was produced digitally, printed elsewhere. There was a list of all birds on those and I wanted to see if I could produce that full list in letterpress as well. It turned into this dyptich. I’d love to say I had calculated that things would all fit as nicely as they did beforehand, but no. Sheer dumb luck. We have two complete founts of this letter, which made it possible to set this much text in one go. (A fount is the full set of letters and symbols for a given font at a specific size. Many <em>e</em>’s, fewer <em>w</em>’s. An English fount has more <em>y</em>’s than a Dutch fount, etc.)</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2024-when-in-doubt-posters.jpg"
    alt="Two posters with the same design and layout but different colors. The text reads When in doubt Make something. The poster on the left is in black ink on white, the one on the right in light blue ink on black">
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<p>The <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/2024/make-posters/"><em>When in doubt</em> poster</a> was an extensive exercise in getting all those characters in different stages of run-down-ness to an even printing height. Much proofing and putting small bits of paper under things for this one. Available to buy, even. <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/2024/make-posters/">Here</a>.</p>
<h2 id="workshops">workshops</h2>
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<li>March saw an international group of printers work with our collection and produce work inspired by the Kwadraatbladen. The report, in Dutch <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/2024/04/29/now3-een-internationaal-werkbezoek/">is here</a>.</li>
<li>Posters à la Brattinga was the theme for another work week, producing posters using the 3 x 5 squares grid by Dutch designer Pieter Brattinga. Still needs its own writeup, that.</li>
<li>I hosted a one-day workshop at the end of the year in which participants produced <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2024/poster-print-workshop/">posters with their own XL note to self</a>.</li>
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<h2 id="letterpress-2025"><em>Letterpress 2025</em></h2>
<p>The poster printing workshop was fun. As they say, to really learn something, teach it. Looking forward to do this a couple more times and streamline the process. As for the small type, I want to combine traditional lead type designs with LEGO letterpress and/or monoprinting techniques and see what that brings us.</p>
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<p>Figuring out the list of projects for the first part of the year:</p>
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<li>zines: my own and helping somebody else to produce their first one, which I&rsquo;m really looking forward too. There&rsquo;s an experiment in a follow-up product in there.</li>
<li>bird prints, which ones, in which order that matches with <a href="/calendar">upcoming events</a>.</li>
<li>And need to wrap up some loose ends as well.</li>
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<p>Think in projects, one at the time whenever possible. Know its context (time, place, people, events, hashtags&hellip;), then share it as effectively as possible.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Hope you can make it a good one.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve added a simple <a href="/calendar">calendar page</a> that lists upcoming exhibitions, fairs and the like. I’m no good at planning things far in advance, but apparently it’s a grown-up thing to do! See you there.</p>
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			<title>2024 retro: Zines</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:28:58 +0100</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<p>Zine making become an important part of my creative practice over the last couple of years. Last February/March we organised the sixth edition of <em>VOLUME</em>. The subtitle <em>onderzoek in oplage</em> translates as <em>research in circulation/edition</em>. It still inspires to apply the many sides (hah!) of printmaking as image generator, incitement and theme -in-itself.</p>
<p>Still, not much zine work done this year. My entries for the <em>VOLUME #6</em> exhibition were:</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2024-retro-van-de-kneu-zine.webp"
    alt="Copies of the same zine, copies standing, showing the cover. Two other copies lying open in front, showing different pages.">
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<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2024/kneu-strandloper-zine/">Of the Common Linnet and the Sanderling</a>. Notes on the design and printing process of two bird prints.</li>
<li>Release 1. A printed catalogue, in an edition of just six copies, of <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/release-1/">this series of prints</a>, which became part of the <a href="https://tacit.studio/special-edition-of-print-play-the-art-of-lego-letterpress/">special edition of <em>Print &amp; Play. The Art of LEGO Letterpress</em></a>.</li>
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<h2 id="zines-2025"><em>Zines 2025</em></h2>
<p>I&rsquo;m especially looking forward to create a new edition in the <a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/zines/">Bildung zine series</a>, using a similar approach as in the first edition. A collection of my own writings, sketchbook pages, project documumentation and inspirations from the last few years. This worked really well in <a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/bildung/bildung-1/">Bildung 1</a>, both as a retrospective of and a compass for my own work.</p>
<p><a href="https://gahilversum.nl/agenda/volume-7-zines-beurs-en-opening/">VOLUME #7 opens Sunday, January 2nd</a> in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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			<title>2024 retro: Copper Monday Prints</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 13:03:36 +0100</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<p>2024 was the second year of making so-called <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/koppermaandag/">Koppermaandag-prints</a>. Two even. One for the printmaking studio, one under my own name.</p>
<p>These &lsquo;Copper Monday prints&rsquo; originate from the time of the (Dutch?) guilds. At the start of the new year, printers and engravers made a print to show off their capabilities and promote their wares. A happy new year wishing card and business gift in one.</p>
<p><a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/koppermaandag/koppermaandag-GAH-2024/"><figure class="right"><img src="/img/2024-koppermaandag-GAH.jpg">
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<h2 id="out-with-the-in-new-with-the-old"><a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/koppermaandag/koppermaandag-GAH-2024/">Out with the in, new with the old</a></h2>
<p>The one for Grafisch Atelier Hilversum. The text is a reordering of ‘out with the old, in with the new.’ Meaning: don’t be distracted with the trend of the day, but make the new yourself, within the rich tradition of printmaking.</p>
<p><a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/koppermaandag/koppermaandag-2024/"><figure class="right"><img src="/img/2024-koppermaandag-RS.jpg">
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<h2 id="holm-aan-de-geng"><a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/koppermaandag/koppermaandag-2024/">Hol’m aan de geng</a></h2>
<p>Loosely translated as ‘keep (it) going’. Printmakers saw ink-rollers of a printing press. Keep printing. That should definetely happen, but the image is based on another idea. It&rsquo;s through intensive treatment that my father&rsquo;s cancer is kept under control. But for how long? That question keeps playing up at every check on go/no go for the next treatment. ‘Keep going’ has become our standard greeting. The circles visualize a heartbeat. Twelve times for each month of the year. The hope, wish and encouragement to at least keep it going for this year. (Mission accomplished).</p>
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<h2 id="a-thought-made-tangible"><em>A thought, made tangible</em></h2>
<p>Main starting point for these prints is that I&rsquo;ll use my own text.
What is the message? What’s my wish for the receiver? How to express that? Concisely? Which design supports best that? Technically, both were early experiments in using more or less transparent inks. All in all a complete exercise in writing and design, setting and printing. A thought, made tangible.</p>
<h3 id="koppermaandag-2025">Koppermaandag 2025</h3>
<p>I&rsquo;ll be making two for the upcoming year as well. The second one is for Stichting Drukwerk in de Marge, the dutch foundation for letterpress and other printmakers, celebrating its 50th birthday next year. Process notes on that one are <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2024/printers-log-1/">here</a>, <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2024/printers-log-2/">here</a> and <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/posts/2024/printers-log-3/">here</a>. All to be revealed on January 13th.</p>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:09:21 +0100</pubDate>
			
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<p>Some reminders don&rsquo;t fit on a sticky note. You need to see the bigger picture. On a poster for example. In your own design, printed by you.</p>
<p>On Friday December 27th I would love to work with you to set and print that text using the wood type of Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
<p>Preferably no wisecracks, but a meaningful text. A motto, slogan, an extra large note to self.</p>
<p>Grafisch Atelier Hilversum maintains a special collection of wood type that we can use on this day. Which style fits your message? How and where on the sheet? Plenty of detail to geek out on. Simple is not that easy sometimes!</p>
<p>Would you like to join? Still two spots open. Can do half a day or a full day. <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/poster-print-it-your-self/">More info (in Dutch) here</a>.</p>
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    alt="Layout sketch of three small rectangular boxes in portrait orientation. Numbered 1 to 3 along the top. The left box has a pinkish red line from top to bottom, somewhat left of center. The second box adds a blue bit onto the top part of the red line. The third box adds black marks for the final texts to be added.">
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<p>The third and final print run uses good old black for the colour. This was the most complex forme of the three. Indeed, the challenge was to learn whether everything could be made to print nicely and evenly within this single form, because it combines small, thin type with the solid surfaces of a brick-forme (LEGO) and some more type of different sizes in between these two extremes. Eventually we made that work.</p>
<p>We also switched to a different press. From the manually operated Vandercook to the electrically operated Grafix. A smaller and faster press that may just be a bit better suited for this more demanding forme.</p>
<p>It not only needed tweaks to get everything to an evenly printed height. Some final layout changes needed to made as well. Calculations made while building the forme turned out to be slight miscalculations. A few points of lineheight needed to be shifted around to get things aligned correctly.</p>
<p>With an electric press the printing is definitely much faster than setting again. It took only 1,5 hours to get half of the edition printed. Another effect of large editions: you need a lot of space in your drying racks.</p>
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    alt="Layout sketch of three small rectangular boxes in portrait orientation. Numbered 1 to 3 along the top. The left box has a pinkish red line from top to bottom, somewhat left of center. The second box adds a blue bit onto the top part of the red line. The third box is still empty.">
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<li>Getting 700 sheets back <em>out</em> of the drying rack and stacking them is work, too. Nothing takes only a little while with these numbers.</li>
<li>Set up the forme for the second print run in the Vandercook press. Exactly 12 ciceros from  the top.</li>
<li>Top is bottom, left is right, high is low. Mirror thinking and setting remains challenging.</li>
<li>You will get the sheet including the part that has the small dents made by the paper grippers. That&rsquo;s (within the) margin as well. (That&rsquo;s cryptic yes, for now.)</li>
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      <h4>Actual type blurred out for now :)</h4>
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<p>And because I had to look up that they&rsquo;re called grippers that I found this site with <a href="https://vandercookpress.info/features/">all the info about Vandercook proof presses</a>.</p>
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			<title>Printers Log #1</title>
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    alt="Layout sketch of three small rectangular boxes in portrait orientation. Numbered 1 to 3 along the top. The left box has a pinkish red line from top to bottom, somewhat left of center. The other two boxes are empty.">
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<p>A project: printing almost 700 sheets of A3 paper using a minimum of three print runs. Manully. So that we may have 650 good ones in the end.</p>
<p>The first print run consists of a single pinkish red line, 1 cicero width, positioned exactly 25 cicero from the left long side. Speed of printing is three plus sheets per minute, so around 200 sheets per hour, or 3,5 hours of printing in total.</p>
<p>Setting, proofing and correcting the exact layout usually takes longer than the printing itself. Even with an edition of this amount, &rsquo;the printing <em>itself</em> doesn&rsquo;t take that long&rsquo; still holds. Likely because I&rsquo;m not that experienced a typesetter yet. I&rsquo;ve really honestly started to rely more on calculating and counting to get things in the right position on the sheet, but am still easily seduced into the ways of trial and error.</p>
<p>Even after more than 600 prints that same line still stands the same 25 ciceros from the left margin. The combination of a massive thousand kilos of proofing press and the very exact precision in adjustments and production that can be achieved with it is fascinating.</p>
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			<title>Of the Common Linnet and the Sanderling</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/posts/2024/kneu-strandloper-zine/</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:44:06 +0100</pubDate>
			
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    alt="Multiple copies of the zine against a brown paper background. One zine standing up, showing the cover. Two others lie in front, opened on different pages.">
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<p>Of the Common Linnet and the Sanderling is a zine with notes on the design and printing proces for two prints from the <em>50 birds</em> series.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2024-zine-bildung-3-page004.jpg"
    alt="title page">
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<p>These prints were made towards the end of the series. The complexity of the designs had increased quite a bit by then. More and more print runs for a single design were the result. All those details had to be figured out before production could start. For these two birds I explicitly kept  more notes than I would normally do to record all the considerations that come into play.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2024-zine-bildung-3-page005.jpg"
    alt="Negen verschillende drukproeven van het ontwerp voor de kneu.">
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<p>28 Pages with thoughts, proofs, production and assorted predicaments.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2024-zine-bildung-3-page006.jpg"
    alt="Negen verschillende drukproeven van het ontwerp voor de kneu.">
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<p>Wannahave? <strong><a href="mailto:info@royscholten.nl">Send electronic mail message</a></strong>.</p>
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			<title>Koppermaandag 2025</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Well that was fast. 25 people have already added their info for next years Koppermaandagprent. So, alas, but thank you for your interest!</p>
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			<title>Bluethroat</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:44:56 +0100</pubDate>
			
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<p>The design process and the thirteen color separations to produce the <a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/falconidae/eurasian-hobby-wit/">Eurasian Hobby</a> were quite time intensive. So it was quite pleasant to return to more familiar, smaller, terrain for a bit. Without the constraint of a 15✕15cm frame I could pay more attention to the exact position on the paper. Of course, most of the complexity was in all those colours around the throat and chest. Getting the length and direction of tail and feet just right took some time as well. Quite the perky stance no?</p>
<p><a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/bluethroat/bluethroat/">View the Bluethroat</a></p>
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			<title>When in doubt make something</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:19:41 +0200</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<figure><img src="/img/2024-when-in-doubt-posters.jpg"
    alt="Two posters with the same design and layout but different colors. The text reads When in doubt Make something. The poster on the left is in black ink on white, the one on the right in light blue ink on black">
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<p>This is the somewhat smaller, but still loud and clear version of <a href="/2022/when-in-doubt">this one</a>.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/2024-when-in-doubt-zetsel.jpg"
    alt="Blue inked wood type forme quoined up in the bed of a large Vandercook proofing press.">
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<p>The design was created using a variety of wood type letters. The challenge was to get these words of different lengths to create a solid rectangular block of text. There are quite a few bits of paper underneath the worn down edges and serifs to get as much as possible to a printable <a href="/posts/2024/type-height/">type height</a>.</p>
<p>And it really <em>is</em> a note-to-self. I still regularly need to be reminded of this.</p>
<p>Dimensions: 46 ✕ 64 cm.<br>
Edition black on white: 30<br>
Edition blue on black: 20<br>
Price: €55,- including worldwide shipping.</p>
<p>Should you need this reminder as well, <a href="mailto:info@royscholten.nl">let me know</a>.</p>
<p>(<a href="/nl/2024/make-posters/">Klik hier voor NL bestellen en leveren</a>).</p>
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    alt="photo of an entry from a printers terms encyclopedia.">
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<p><strong>height-to-paper; type height.</strong> The standard height of types, blocks or any letterpress printing material. This height is for the United Kingdom and most American countries 0.918&quot; (23,3167 mm). In other countries height-to-paper is: France 23.56 mm, Germany 23.56 mm (Old German 24.90 mm obs., Leipsic 24.82 mm obs.), Netherlands 24,85 mm, old Flemish 24.78 mm), Austria ≈ 23.56 mm, Russia 25.10 mm and bookbinders type high 6.5 mm.<br>
<strong>f:</strong> hauteur en papier; hauteur du caractère<br>
<strong>d:</strong> Schrifthöhe<br>
<strong>n:</strong> letterhoogte</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>So that&rsquo;s nine journals filled since 2020. You can see some early enthousiasm in the number of journals per year! At the same time, still doing these four years later, so the habit sticks.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2024-journals.jpg"
    alt="A row of nine bound journals, showing the spine. Each journal is numberd and has the year it was started on a piece of tape at the bottom of the spine.">
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<h2 id="building-journals">Building journals</h2>
<p>The main success factor is making the barriers to create and fill these as low as possible:</p>
<ul>
<li>Standard dimensions</li>
<li>Fill sections, not books</li>
<li>Have a &rsquo;this always works&rsquo; format for filling a page</li>
</ul>
<p>These journals are A5 size: 21 centimeters high, about 15 centimeters wide. I create 16-page sections by folding four A4-sized sheets once. Four sheets of A4 paper makes for a 16-page section. These sections are not bound together yet. This allows for shuffling pages around while the sections are being filled.  You can see three sections lying next to the journals in the photo.</p>
<p>Fill eight sections and another 128 page journal is ready for binding. I select two prints on heavier paper for the back and the front, then ask <a href="https://melvdlinde.nl/">Melanie</a> to turn it all into a book.</p>
<p>So have low barriers to starting one, and outsource the final stage of assembling it. Having a bound journal delivered back to you is a fun and valuable gift to self.</p>
<h2 id="journal-contents">Journal contents</h2>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/2024-journals-2.jpg">
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<p>A journal is a private space, a safe environment to think, explore, write and draw your mind. Mine have quick life drawings, left-over (mono-)prints, abstract doodles, writing and a lot of mind-mappy breakdowns and sketches of whatever I&rsquo;m trying to figure out at that time. To-do lists not so much, those would get lost in the shuffle.</p>
<p>Materials used most often: <a href="/2024/workhorse-fountain-pen/">fountain pen</a>, pencil and our large collection of Posca markers.</p>
<p>This always works to get a page filled: <a href="https://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/111125141634/above-variations-on-our-daily-diary-practice">Lynda Barry&rsquo;s daily journal format</a>,  sometimes in <a href="/2021/modified-lynda-barry-daily-journal-format">my modest extension of it</a> (a post in Dutch).</p>
<p>I could still do a lot better in reviewing them and pull out the interesting ideas and combine things across multiple journals. My <a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/bildung/bildung-1/">Bildung 1 zine</a> consists mostly of selections for the first four zines. There&rsquo;s enough material to do another one like that for sure.</p>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2024 09:12:56 +0200</pubDate>
			
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    alt="Stylized print of a black and white bird with grayis brown cap and back."><figcaption>
      <h4>Ficedula hypoleuca</h4>
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<p>Van sommige vogelprenten duurt het wat langer voordat het eerste exemplaar verkocht wordt. Vandaag de heuglijke mededeling dat een eerste Bonte vliegenvanger prent een nieuw thuis heeft gevonden.</p>
<p>Bij deze vliegenvanger heb ik de eerste keer dat ik &rsquo;m zag als het ware afgedwongen. Het was namelijk ook een van de soorten die ik zelf nog niet gezien had. Maar kort nadat ik aan het ontwerp ervan was begonnen kwam ik ze tegen, rondom een nestkast zelfs, dus hopelijk zijn her er nu meer.</p>
<p>Zoals gebruikelijk bij vogels is het mannetje sterker van kleur, maar in dit geval niet per se <em>rijker</em> van kleur. Waar het mannetje geheel grafisch zwart is aan de bovenkant heeft het vrouwtje een zacht grijsbruine rug. Die vond ik mooier, en dus is dit een van de weinige keren dat ik koos voor la in plaats van le. Kenners spotten vast <a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/project/50-vogels/">welke de andere is</a>.</p>
<p>Je herkent vliegenvangers aan hun korte duikvluchten vanaf een tak, zo telkens insecten uit de lucht snaaiend.</p>
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<p>After mild dabblings in buying a luxury fountain pen or two, I quickly found that those do not fit what I need from a pen. I need a reliable, relatively cheap, easy to replace workhorse pen that I can carry with me.</p>
<p>For me, that always-on workhorse pen is the Lamy Safari with an F nib, in the color Umbra.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/vulpen-hoesje.jpg">
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<p>Why that one?</p>
<p>They always write. Immediately and cleanly. Quite fundamental, no? Still, I have used Twsbi, Diplomat, Pelikan fountain pens that I never got to consistently clear that lowest of barriers.</p>
<p>I <em>strongly</em> prefer the umbra color ones. Not for the aesthetics, but because this is one of the few (only) colors that result in an ever so slightly grainy surface on the pen body. A much more comfortable and pleasant feel than the smooth and shiny red, yellow, black, etc. ones.</p>
<p>After a few occasions of black stains in weird places I found a small leather sleeve in the second-hand store. It fits two pens and an extra cartridge. I carry two so that I don&rsquo;t have to switch out a cartridge before I can continue, just grab the other pen.</p>
<h2 id="writing-and-drawing">Writing and drawing</h2>
<figure class="left"><img src="/img/vulpen-tekening-kozijn.jpg"><figcaption>
      <h4>Not al F nibs are the same. Notice the slightly heavier line in the heater and lamp at the top.</h4>
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<p>My left-handed grip is high: thumb on the sealing ring between barrel and section, index finger resting in the half-round ending of a flat part of the section. Uncapped of course because why add ballast.</p>
<p>Easily replacable nibs is a handy feature. I mostly use F-nibs, but have one with a broader nib for that chunkier line that I need in some specific cases. The black nibs look better in my opinion.
The nibs have only neglible flex, so no line width variation available. Not a bad thing at all, just a defining characteristic. You can always rotate the pen, with the feed instead of the nib on top to produce a thinner line.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s quite good to draw with as well. Not only because it always works right from the start. It also keeps up. Long and fast strokes still produce even and uninterrupted lines on the paper. All that in any direction as well. Draw some big loops, fast, and it keeps up.</p>
<p>So, mostly cured of the fiddling with and spending on. The Appelboom story is only a short bike ride away from where I live. A trip every two years or so to buy a hundred black ink cartridges and I&rsquo;m good.</p>
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<p>This <a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/chinese-crane/chinese-crane/">Chinese Crane</a> is a print on a whole different size than the ones in <a href="https://royscholten.nl/project/50-birds/">that other series</a>. A commission with some interesting challenges on both the design and technical aspects.</p>
<p><em>Design wise:</em> because of the large amount of white in the bird, the paper had to be of a different colour. That took some time and experiments on its own. As always, diagonals are an issue so that foot and the feet were quite the puzzle. The ankle joint and the larger half-round parts that suggest the feathers are made from parts that became available only just recently.</p>
<p><em>Technically:</em> the dimensions were just about the max of what&rsquo;s possible on the Vandercook proofing press I used for this print. Multiple print runs at this size requires a lot of LEGO, the logistics for that needed some figuring out. Then, most of the complexity is at the top and the bottom: the head and feet. Getting the last part of the paper to hit exactly right between each run requires some additional work to prevent the paper to start hanging from the cylinder to guide the paper just right. I&rsquo;ll explain that in more depth some other time :)</p>
<p><em>The commission part:</em> the <a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/chinese-crane/chinese-crane/">Chinese Crane</a> is the spirit animal for the marriage of H. and S. This print celebrates their 5th anniversary. Thank you &amp; congrats!</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>A week on vacation on Schiermonnikoog, one of the Dutch Wadden islands. N. had rented a small house in the center of the one village on the island, right next to the bakery. Very good.</p>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiermonnikoog">Schiermonnikoog</a> is a small island, but its beaches are among the widest in Europe. Tourist season had not started yet, so during our first long walk we soon were the only ones there. Amazing views, very special.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/schiermonnikoog-2024-zeezicht.jpg"
    alt="charcoal drawing of a view on dunes with dunes and sea in the background and clouds in the sky.">
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<p>We brought some of our art materials for drawing outside. (Last year <a href="/work-at-a-different-speed/">I drew some sheep</a> while there.) I wanted to try my hand at charcoal because it had been a long time I used it and it lends itself to making larger size drawings. These are roughly 50 by 60 cm.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/schiermonnikoog-2024-landschap.jpg"
    alt="A view on some tries, grasses, shrubs.">
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<p>This was the first vacation where it was just the two of us, without son and daughter. Not bad. Not bad at all.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/schiermonnikoog-2024-kobbeduinen.jpg"
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<p>De kraaien vielen de buizerd lastig – salto met hele schroef om ze uit de buurt te blijven.</p>
<p>Consternatie in het struweel. De gaai greep een van de jonge koolmezen – gespietst op die zwarte snavel van &rsquo;m.</p>
<p>De bonte vliegenvanger had het aan de stok met de pimpelmees – vooralsnog geen slachtoffers te melden.</p>
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<p>Poëzie op de Pers is een vierdaagse diepduik in het zetten en drukken van poëzie door middel van de eeuwenoude boekdruktechniek. Ik deed mee aan de editie van dit jaar, afgelopen 9 tot en met 12 mei in <a href="https://ateliert.be">Atelier t</a>, te Bierbeek.</p>
<p>Met grote houten letters had ik al enige ervaring omdat ik posters maak bij de exposities in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum. Maar zelfs op groot formaat is de hoeveelheid tekst meestal nog steeds beperkt. Ik wilde oefenen in het zetten en drukken van langere teksten in kleine korpsen. Een oefening in aandacht, geduld en de typografische basisbeginselen.</p>
<p>Wat Poëzie op de Pers aantrekkelijk maakt is de combinatie van werkplaats, opdracht, begeleiding en de deelnemers die dat aantrekt.</p>
<h2 id="de-werkplaats">De werkplaats</h2>
<p>Niels Goovaerts en Thomas Gravemaker hebben Printstudio Atelier t heel compleet en nauwkeurig ingericht, met een duidelijke focus op het produceren van kwalitatief hoogwaardig drukwerk.</p>
<p>Zodra je de werkplaats binnenkomt is meteen duidelijk dat hier de dingen met aandacht en bedoeling op de juiste plek gelegd zijn. Duidelijk afgebakende werkplekken met het benodigde gereedschap en materiaal onder handbereik. Een werkplaats met een protocol.</p>
<h2 id="de-opdracht-een-katern-met-poëzie">De opdracht: een katern met poëzie</h2>
<p>Een enkel vel, tweezijdig te bedrukken, daarna te vouwen en te snijden tot een klein katern van acht pagina&rsquo;s. Alleen de rechter (recto) pagina&rsquo;s te bedrukken, dus plek voor drie teksten en een titelpagina (of vier teksten of een lange tekst over meerdere pagina&rsquo;s, etc.)</p>
<p>Formaat en afmetingen stonden vast en zelfs de maat en positie van de zetspiegel (dat stuk van de pagina dat bedrukt kon worden) waren al gedefinieërd. Binnen het paginaformaat van 14 bij 22,5 centimeter was de zetspiegel vastgesteld op 24 bij 40 cicero. Dat formaat lag al afgebakend en op de juiste plek klaar op de pers.</p>
<h3 id="eigen-uitgangspunten">Eigen uitgangspunten</h3>
<p>Naast het gegeven formaat en indeling had ik ook m&rsquo;n eigen uitgangspunten en doelen opgesteld:</p>
<ul>
<li>In de basis dit benaderen als oefening in het netjes zetten van tekst in kleine korpsen.</li>
<li>Beginkapitalen toepassen</li>
<li>Een tekst over twee kolommen verdelen</li>
<li>Een decoratief element ontwerpen met gebruik van ornamenten</li>
</ul>
<p>Door formaat en zetspiegel op voorhand vast te zetten en de drukvellen en pers daar al op af te stellen werd ons deelnemers veel extra denkwerk uit het hoofd genomen. En dat was maar goed ook. Het zetten en drukken op zich had al genoeg potentiële hoofdbrekens in petto.</p>
<h2 id="aan-de-slag">Aan de slag</h2>
<p>De basis van netjes zetten bestond voor mij uit:</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/bildung-4-hildegard-zetsel.jpg">
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<ul>
<li>Het goed uitgevuld krijgen van elke regel tot exact de gekozen kolombreedte met zo min mogelijk elementen regelwit.</li>
<li>Het gelijkstellen (spatiëren) van titels gezet in hoofdletters. Sommige lettercombinaties laten veel witruimte tussen de lettervormen (LA), anderen juist niet (NN). De krappere combinaties moeten dus expliciet wat verder uit elkaar gezet worden om tot een gelijkmatig woordbeeld te komen.</li>
<li>Slim omgaan met woordafbrekingen aan het eind van een regel. Je wil voorkomen dat twee opeenvolgende regels eindigen met een koppelteken. Iets krappere woordspaties in de rest van de regel kunnen ervoor zorgen dat dat laatste woord net wel in de regel past.</li>
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<h3 id="een-eeuwenoud-vak">Een eeuwenoud vak</h3>
<p>Al doende merk je steeds beter dat je je in een eeuwenlange traditie begeeft. Een vak dat zich in de loop van zes eeuwen heeft kunnen doorontwikkelen. Er zijn zoveel variabelen die invloed hebben op hoe en waar de inkt op het papier aangebracht kan worden, en voor elk daarvan is in de loop der tijd een oplossing gevonden. Ook interessant: voor al die termen waar we nu eerder het photoshop en indesign engels (her)kennen, bestaan echt ook gewoon Nederlandse termen. Geen mockup maar plakproef, niet spatiëren maar gelijkstellen. En als iets GVD is dan het Goed Voor Drukken.</p>
<h3 id="de-begeleiding">De begeleiding</h3>
<p>De realisatie op schouders van generaties reuzen te staan maakte het gemakkelijk om me bescheiden en volgzaam op te stellen. Ik schat zo in dat Thomas en Niels samen ruim 60 jaar ervaring in boekdruk hebben. Beiden zijn daarbij ook heel bedreven in het duidelijk en geduldig overbrengen van die expertise op ons beginners. Respect, niets dan.</p>
<h2 id="over-de-inhoud">Over de inhoud</h2>
<p>Bildung is de titel van een reeks zines die ik in 2020 begon. Daarin verzamel ik invloeden, inspiraties, parallellen, soortgenoten en zet ze in context van m&rsquo;n eigen werk uit de afgelopen periode. De verbindende factor van de teksten is dat ze aansporen tot beter. Beter werk, meer vertrouwen, diepere aandacht. Dat spoort met de idee van de Bildung zines, en dus heb ik dit katern ontworpen als een editie daarvan.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/bildung-4-ralph.jpg">
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<p>De <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/flashing-gleam-of-light/">quote van Ralph Waldo Emerson</a> is een bevlogen aansporing tot meer durven vertrouwen op je eigen instinct en het volgen van je eigen vermoedens over wat mooi, goed, de moeite waard is. Het spijtige gevoel van &lsquo;zie je wel &amp; had ik maar&rsquo; wanneer je een eerder idee door iemand anders wel uitgevoerd ziet worden&hellip;</p>
<p><a href="https://wonderpalacemusic.bandcamp.com/track/coded-language">Coded Language van Saul Williams, op muziek van Krust</a>. Een herontdekking van een geweldig nummer en krachtige tekst. Een dringend manifest dat oproept tot beter, hier in de specifieke context van de moorden op rappers Tupac Shakur en Biggie Smalls, midden jaren negentig vorige eeuw. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfOorR606CI">Een oproep</a> om het protserige en letterlijk levensgevaarlijke gangsterism van die tijd te ontstijgen.</p>
<p>De liedtekst <a href="https://www.hildegard-society.org/2014/11/o-vos-angeli-responsory.html">O vos angeli</a> van Hildegard von Bingen koos ik als eerste. Haar werk stamt uit de periode waarvan ik de verluchte initialen en manuscripten het mooist vindt. Het boek <a href="https://www.hildegard-society.org/2019/09/book-review-salvadori-hildegard-von-bingen-a-journey-into-the-images.html">Scivias, a journey into the images</a> waarin de afbeeldingen uit haar Scivias gereproduceerd en geduid worden is een dierbaar bezit. En met een beetje goede wil kan haar aanroep tot de stem der engelen ook als ode en lof aan de muze worden gelezen.</p>
<h2 id="over-de-vorm">Over de vorm</h2>
<p>Omdat ik al meerdere varianten in opmaak van plan was heb ik me beperkt in het aantal lettertypen dat ik gebruikte. Eentje. De <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino">Palatino</a> in twaalf punten, regulier en cursief. Altijd al een fijne letter gevonden en deze was in ruime hoeveelheden beschikbaar, dus die keuze was snel gemaakt.</p>
<h3 id="kolommen">Kolommen</h3>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/bildung-4-saul.jpg">
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<p>De kolombreedtes stemde ik af op de aard van de tekst. Een smalle kolom voor de veelal korte regels in de liedtekst van Von Bingen. Een zo breed mogelijke kolom voor de lopende tekst in de quote van Emerson. Twee kolommen voor Coded Language, eentje voor de excerpten, de tweede voor de meest directe versregel plus de naam van de auteur.</p>
<h3 id="beginkapitalen">Beginkapitalen</h3>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/bildung-4-hildegard.jpg">
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<p>Op twee van de pagina&rsquo;s heb ik beginkapitalen toegepast. Een forse hoofdletter &lsquo;O&rsquo; bij een liedtekst van Hildegard von Bingen en een meer schijfletter-achtige &lsquo;W&rsquo; op het titelblad.</p>
<p>Een inspiratiebron voor de beginkapitalen was het werk van Imre Reiner. (zie deze <a href="/meet-imre-reiner-playful-modernest-printmaker-lettering-artist-and-typographer/">eerdere</a> <a href="/meer-imre-reiner-typografie-en-ornament/">posts</a>). Midden 20e eeuw was hij de ietwat tegendraads vormgever die het ultra-rationele van de moderne typografie combineerde met meer kalligrafisch geïnspireerde lettervormen en ornamenten. Dat resulteerde in gedurfde, vaak speelse lettercombinaties in groot contrast, met een expliciete rol voor decoratie.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/bildung-4-cover-full.jpg">
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<p>De elementen op het titelblad zijn links uitgelijnd, met uitzondering van de beginkapitaal, die daar natuurlijk juist wel buiten mocht staan. De linkermarge is zodanig dat de langste tekstregel gecentreerd op de pagina kwam te staan. Nice.</p>
<p>Waar ik niet aan toe ben gekomen is het werken met ornamenten. Idee was om de beat van Coded Language om te zetten naar een visueel patroon en dat toe te passen op het titelblad. Maar het zetten van de excerpten uit Coded Language zelf was al een race tegen de klok en de eigen zelfoverschatting :)</p>
<h2 id="tot-de-volgende">Tot de volgende!</h2>
<p>Deze vierdaagse bracht me volledig wat ik ervan wou. Een geconcentreerde oefening in boekdruk volgens de regels van het vak. In een werkplaats die daar specifiek op ingericht is. Onder begeleiding van twee zowel geduldige als gedreven experts. De gekozen vorm en de vastgestelde kaders waarbinnen gewerkt moest worden zorgden voor focus in het eigen werk en voor een set katernen die zich tot een smaakvol geheel lieten bundelen.</p>
<p>Ik heb al veel zin om dit geheel over te doen, iets uitgebreider, wellicht met illustraties, in ieder geval met meer beginkapitalen, werken met inspringende alinea&rsquo;s, alle teksten op hetzelfde baseline grid zodat de boel ook gelijkloopt als je de onderliggende pagina wat door ziet schijnen, die ene fout eruit&hellip;</p>
<p><em>Meer van dat!</em></p>
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<p><a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/50-vogels/">De expositie</a> is bijna afgelopen.</p>
<p>Vrijwel elke dag zijn er bezoekers geweest. Wat fijn dat u de moeite nam te komen kijken.</p>
<p>Uw aandacht, het enthousiasme, het feest der herkenning: dank!<br>
Uw waardering, de dierbare herinnering, de verwondering: dank!<br>
Uw aankoop, het verder vertellen, de bitterkoekjes: dank!</p>
<p>Vandaag, vrijdag 24 en aanstaande zondag tussen 13 en 17 uur nog te bezoeken in <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/50-vogels/">Grafisch Atelier Hilversum</a>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.zylstra.org/blog/">Ton</a> connected me with <a href="https://ruk.ca/">Peter</a> earlier this year, because Peter was planning trips to European letterpress printing studios. You bet that Grafisch Atelier Hilversum wanted to be a stop along that route!</p>
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<p>The project: <a href="https://thisbox.info/">This Box is for Good</a>. The idea: custom print a series of small cardboard boxes each month. Fill them with small gifts and pass them on to friends, acquintances, passers-by. Those who receive a box get to keep its contents and are requested to fill the box anew and give it away once more. Receivers become givers. Practicing generosity. An exercise in giving and passing nice things on.</p>
<p>Peter, Lisa, Lali and I collaborated on the design and production of a new series of boxes over the course of two days. On the first day we explored some possible techniques, developed the idea and executed a first print run. We tested monoprinting but decided to not use this technique. The rather coarse-fibred cardboard is very absorbant and thus left no room for the subtle details of monoprints.</p>
<p>And so the focus shifted entirely to that other specialty of the house: LEGO letterpress. Lali introduced the idea of lupines (the flowers) and designed a few versions of those. This became the main motif for the boxes. A patterned band wrapped around the box provided a base for the flowers to take root in.</p>
<p>On day two we printed the remaining print runs. We used the same designs and printed them in different colors to create multiple sub-series within the collection as a whole.</p>
<p>Typical for printing: stuff needs to dry, so there&rsquo;s always one more moment that follows after all the printing is done. A final design intervention got added: we punched a few holes in each box. Then each box got its unique number and was glued back together again. Everybody who receives a box can register it at <a href="https://thisbox.info/">the website</a> so that the journey of each box can be tracked.</p>
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<p>The result: forty-ish boxes, all printed using the same motifs but with variations in color and composition. A few stayed in the studio to be distributed from there. Peter, Lisa and Lali took the rest with them, en route to their next creative stop in Italy.</p>
<p>Such a beautiful, small yet grand project. Very cool to have been a part of it. Peter wrote up <a href="https://thisbox.info/april-2024-printing-lego-hilversum">his report here</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you Peter, Lisa and Lali!</p>
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<p>Tijdens de looptijd van het <a href="https://www.royscholten.nl/nl/project/50-vogels">50 vogels</a> project heb ik prenten op uitverkocht gezet zodra nummer 18 van de in totaal 20 prenten verkocht was. Ik wou namelijk zodra de serie compleet was nog van elke prent twee exemplaren kunnen aanbieden.</p>
<p>Toen m&rsquo;n <a href="https://royscholten.nl/nl/50-vogels/">50 vogels expositie</a> opende kwamen die laastste twee prenten dus beschikbaar voor de verkoop. Van een flink aantal prenten zijn het ook alleen die laatste twee exemplaren die nog verkrijgbaar zijn.</p>
<p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fn7blXSfjSwzG0rHi9rKvhaeKHvNRX2Z-HCTcZ5CVMo/edit?usp=sharing">Check welke vogels nog beschikbaar zijn en wat de prijs van de eerstvolgend beschikbare prent is in dit spreadsheet</a>.</p>
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<p>De typografische werkplaats van het grafisch atelier is de afgelopen jaren flink uitgebreid en verbeterd. De lettercollectie is onder andere verrijkt met meerdere (deel)collecties bijzondere houten drukletters. Daarnaast werden de persen gereviseerd en de werkplekken ingericht volgens de regels van het vak.</p>
<p>Met de werkplaats voldoende op orde werd het mogelijk om een eerste groep ervaren drukkers te ontvangen. Dr. Rebecca Howson was initiator van dit werkbezoek en nodigde uit: Luise Valentiner uit het Verenigd Koninkrijk, Olof Gardarsdottir uit IJsland, Stephane de Schrevel uit Vlaanderen en Marieke van der Perk en Marijn Kluijfhout uit Nederland. Samen verkenden zij onder begeleiding van Thomas Gravemaker, Martijn van der Blom en Roy Scholten, drie dagen lang de technische en creatieve mogelijkheden van het grafisch atelier.</p>
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<h2 id="experimental-letterpress">Experimental letterpress</h2>
<p>In haar PhD <em><a href="https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/14706/">The Printing Types. A practice based study of design principles in experimental letterpress</a></em> onderzocht dr. Howson hoe juist de technieken van traditionele boekdruk (letterpress) bij uitstek geschikt zijn voor het maken van experimenteel (typo)grafisch werk. Ze laat zien hoe de fysieke context van een drukpers en het gebruik van analoge technieken nieuwe manieren van maken en leren kan genereren.</p>
<p>Een ander terugkerend gegeven in haar onderzoek is hoe de geschiedenis, uitrusting, kennis van elke werkplaats en haar gebruikers leiden tot manieren van werken en maken die specifiek zijn voor die plek. Het dialect van een plek als het ware.</p>
<h2 id="kwadraatbladen">Kwadraatbladen</h2>
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<p>Een belangrijk lokaal en historisch gegeven voor Hilversum zijn de kwadraatbladen van Steendrukkerij de Jong uit Hilversum. Tussen 1951 en 1974 verzorgde ontwerper en creatief directeur Pieter Brattinga daar de uitgave van de zogenaamde kwadraatbladen. Brattinga gaf ontwerpers, kunstenaars en fotografen de vrije hand in het maken van een artistieke publicatie. De enige spelregel was het formaat: 25 bij 25 centimeter.</p>
<p>De veelal experimenteel vormgegeven kwadraatbladen speelden een invloedrijke rol in de internationale promotie van Nederlands grafisch ontwerp. Visitekaartjes voor technisch en inhoudelijk ambitieus drukwerk. De publicatie van een nieuw kwadraatblad ging vaak samen met exposities van werk in de kantine van de drukkerij. De posters die daarvoor gemaakt werden vormen een tweede bron van bijzonder grafisch ontwerp gemaakt in Hilversum.</p>
<h2 id="now-3">NOW 3</h2>
<p>Geïnspireerd door de kwadraatbladen, de lettercollectie en de GAH-specifieke manier van monoprinten in een proefpers werd drie dagen gewerkt aan een serie prenten.</p>
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<p>Stephane de Schrevel vond z&rsquo;n zen in het zetten van lijnen uit de collectie Steur. Een ogenschijnlijk eenvoudige compositie van parallel gezette lijnen bleek een technisch veeleisend precisieklus. Met een krachtig verstilde prent als resultaat. Olof, Marijn en Marieke doken op de voor hen nieuwe manier van monoprinten. Series werken waarin de gebruikte techniek ervoor zorgt dat elke prent uniek is. Rebecca verkende de beeldende kwaliteiten van de onderkanten van een set houten drukletters. Luise verzamelde onder andere typerende uitspraken en zette er vier langs elke zijde van het vierkante vel. Onder de bevlogen begeleiding van Thomas kwam alles ook nog eens binnen de beschikbare tijd af.</p>
<h2 id="het-resultaat">Het resultaat:</h2>
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<ul>
<li>Een serie werken in experimentele letterpress, gebundeld in een natuurlijk ook handgemaakt omslag, in een oplage van 20 exemplaren.</li>
<li>Een succesvolle pilot voor een evenement dat het grafisch atelier minstens jaarlijks wil kunnen organiseren.</li>
<li>Bijzondere gesprekken, technische vondsten en uniek materiaal maakten dat iedereen als rijker mens uit deze werksessie kwam. Een creatieve en productieve ontmoeting op een inspirerende plek.</li>
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<p>Grafisch Atelier Hilversum stelt zijn uitgebreide collectie letters, persen en expertise graag beschikbaar voor kunstenaars, ontwerpers, drukkers en andere creatieve makers. Blijf op de hoogte via de nieuwsbrief, volg ons op instagram of kom langs aan de noorderweg 96 in Hilversum.</p>
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<p>Sometime late summer 2022, the decision was made. That publication about printing with LEGO bricks really needed to be made.</p>
<p>Fast forward a year and change and oh joy: the book, it is finished. Brother in arts <a href="www.martijnvanderblom.com">Martijn van der Blom</a> and me each present over fifty works. All printed using the custom LEGO Letterpress we developed.</p>
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<p>A selection from the first ten years of LEGO Letterpress. LEGO letterpress dus.</p>
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<p>Quite the job, making a book! Without editor <a href="www.kunstindekijker.nl">Eline Levering</a> we would not have been able to write down what we wanted to say. <a href="www.janniedegroot.nl">Jannie de Groot</a> took much care of the graphic design, photography <em>and</em> the design of the book object as a whole. A special binding method, the grid and even the thickness of the book are meaningful aspects of the whole. Nanda Behare helped translate things to English. <a href="www.letterpressamsterdam.nl">Thomas Gravemaker</a> wrote the introduction.</p>
<p><img src="https://i.snap.as/HxJB8rw2.webp" alt=""></p>
<p>For over fifty years now, <a href="https://www.gahilversum.nl">Grafisch Atelier Hilversum</a> provides the studio environment where innovations like this new printing method can be developed and supported this book with a generous financial contribution. Many thanks to all involved!</p>
<h3 id="you-can-order-here"><a href="https://royscholten.nl/work/lego-letterpress/lego-letterpress-book/">You can order here</a></h3>
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<p>While on vacation on the island of Schiermonnikoog I made some drawings of  sheep lying around the bike path. On this first sheet, I&rsquo;m carefully feeling my way around their shape and form:</p>
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<p>I got a bit impatient about all that and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies">oblique strategy</a> that says to <em>work at a different speed</em> came to mind.</p>
<p>So on this next sheet, I worked quite a bit faster. Too fast even on the first try that I crossed out. (I&rsquo;m left handed, so working from right to left will give less smudging). Second try is the small one on top. Better already but still with a few hesitations here and there . Then the third, largest one.</p>
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<p>I had to slow down there at the end to get the eye and nose right, but overall quite a confident little drawing.</p>
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<p>Vanaf 29 augustus aanstaande weer <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen/print-play/">Print &amp; Play op de dinsdagavond in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum</a>.</p>
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<p>Na bijna tien jaar ontwikkelen, experimenteren en produceren gaan we laten zien wat er allemaal kan met LEGO Letterpress. Oktober 2023 verschijnt een uniek boek met werken van <a href="https://www.instagram.com/martijn_van_der_blom/">Martijn van der Blom</a> en <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/">Roy Scholten</a>, allemaal ontworpen en gedrukt met het bekende speelgoed als basismateriaal.</p>
<p>Wil je als eerste horen wanneer het boek verkrijgbaar is, laat dan je email achter via <a href="https://tacit.studio/kunst-van-lego-letterpress/">deze link</a> en we houden je op de hoogte.</p>
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<p>De eerste maandag na Driekoningen is het Koppermaandag. Een overblijfsel uit de tijd van de gilden, terug te voeren tot minstens de 15e eeuw en wellicht nog eerder. Op Koppermaandag werden de privileges van de verschillende gilden voorgelezen en bevestigd. Daarna was het feesten geblazen. Het gilde van de boekdrukkers en prentsnijders maakten voor de gelegenheid een speciale prent met een wens voor het nieuwe jaar en tegelijkertijd als proeve van bekwaamheid. Nieuwjaarswens en relatiegeschenk in één.</p>
<p>Deze traditie van de Koppermaandagprent werd na de Tweede Wereldoorlog weer nieuw leven ingeblazen door kleine drukkers en uitgeverijen.</p>
<p>Dit jaar maakte ik mijn eerste Koppermaandagprent in een combinatie van loden letters, Lego-druk en monoprint.</p>
<p>Moge u in 2023 al spelende wijzer worden!</p>
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<p>Last Friday was <a href="https://www.thesensemakersclub.com/makesensemess">makesensemess 2022</a>. Two hours of online geekery around the use and usefulness of diagrams as a sensemaking tool. All speakers chose to talk about such personal and heartfelt topics. Heartwarming and inspiring. Thank you <a href="https://abbycovert.com/">Abby</a> for putting it all together which such great care.</p>
<p>Thank you everybody for your attention and nice words about my bit.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.xmind.net/m/vudDaP">Here&rsquo;s my presentation with notes</a> (big file, will take some time to load).</p>
<p>Some answers to questions in the chat:</p>
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<li>Mindmapping &amp; presentation tool: <a href="https://xmind.app/">xmind</a></li>
<li>Fountain pen: Lamy Safari, F nib, in the color Umbra because those have a somewhat textured body for better feel and grip</li>
<li>Yes you can <a href="https://royscholten.nl/buying-prints/">buy Lego bird prints here</a> :)</li>
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<p>This Friday November 4th I&rsquo;ll deliver a short presentation at <a href="https://www.thesensemakersclub.com/makesensemess">makesensemess 2022</a>, &ldquo;an Annual Celebration of Sensemaking&rdquo;. Makesensemess is organised by <a href="https://abbycovert.com/">Abby Covert</a>, information architect and author of <a href="https://abbycovert.com/stuck/">STUCK? diagrams help</a>.</p>
<p>This edition will be a celebration of the many different ways a diagram can help. Although I have plenty examples of diagrams that came in useful during client work, I chose an example from my own creative practice. I&rsquo;ll discuss how a simple diagram helped me better understand what I had been working on up till then and at the same time clarified what I could explore next.</p>
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<p>At the heart of all practice lies noticing: noticing an opportunity to act appropriately. To notice an opportunity to act requires three things: being present and sensitive in the moment, having a reason to act, and having a different act come to mind.</p>
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<p>1/3 — Jabe Bloom - (<a href="https://twitter.com/cyetain/status/1572924328764919809">@cyetain</a>) September 22, 2022</p>
<p>(Hebben we een fijn woord als vertaling van noticing? Merken proeft minder specifiek. Bespeuren is meer formeel en wat belegen maar komt wel dichterbij. Opmerken suggereert praten want opmerking maar opmerkelijk hint wel in de goede richting. Vaststellen is te definitief. Opmerken en bespeuren het zijn.)</p>
<p>Mijn halfbakken vertaling van John Mason zoals hierboven geciteerd door Jabe Bloom:</p>
<p>Aan de basis van elke (be)oefening ligt (be)merken: de mogelijkheid bespeuren om gepast te handelen. Een mogelijkheid bespeuren vereist drie dingen: present zijn met gevoel voor het moment, een reden om te handelen, en een andere handeling die te binnen schiet.</p>
<p>Een belangrijk aspect van professionaliteit is dus het opmerken van mogelijke handelingen om later te proberen, of die nu afgeleid zijn uit lezen, discussie, observatie van anderen of persoonlijke reflectie.</p>
<p>Een tweede belangrijk aspect is om te werken aan steeds beter en preciezer te formuleren wat de redenen voor handelen zijn. Kenmerk van de expert is dat die beter is in het opmerken van dingen waar beginners overheen kijken. Ze maken verfijnder onderscheid.</p>
<p>—John Mason, Researching Your Own Practice.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Researching your own practice&rdquo; is een prikkelende titel! Uit recensies op amazon blijkt dat dit boek gaat over wiskunde-educatie.</p>
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<p>Was the driver of duty for an away game of our son&rsquo;s team last weekend. Produced these very quick drawings watching the games. The players really don&rsquo;t stand still for long! Best opportunity is when the player is about to receive serve.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;Ik heb het gevoel dat de <em>aard</em> van de werkzaamheden verschuift.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>De afgelopen weken heb ik twee groepen eerstejaars studenten van de Hogeschool Utrecht kennis laten maken met Grafisch Atelier Hilversum en mijn eigen creatieve praktijk in zowel het digitale als analoge domein. En zelf een prent maken natuurlijk. <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/2022/03/16/studenten-communication-multimedia-design-bezoeken-grafisch-atelier-hilversum/">Kort verslag hier</a></p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Inmiddels al zo&rsquo;n acht jaar wordt op Grafisch Atelier Hilversum gedrukt met zetsels gemaakt met Lego. Een inspirerende techniek voor kunstenaars van alle leeftijden.</p>
<p>30 April 2022 gaan we voor het eerst echt uit de doeken doen hoe Lego letterpress werkt en wat je er mee kunt bereiken tijdens <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/agenda/lego-letterpress-workshop/">deze eendaagse workshop</a>. Een eerste overzicht aan invalshoeken en onderwerpen:</p>
<h2 id="bouwen--drukken">Bouwen &amp; drukken</h2>
<p>Over de technische aspecten van het drukken met Lego.</p>
<ul>
<li>Het principe van hoogdruk</li>
<li>Het bouwen van zetsels</li>
<li>Drukken met de proefdrukpers en de degelpers</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="ontwerpen-en-vormgeven">Ontwerpen en vormgeven</h2>
<p>Over de beeldstrategieën die dit materiaal mogelijk maakt en welke minder voor de hand liggen.</p>
<ul>
<li>Het grid als fundamenteel gegeven.</li>
<li>Punt, lijn, vorm en restvorm</li>
<li>Ritme, herhaling, patroon</li>
<li>Horizontaal, vertical, beperkt diagonaal</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="ontwikkelen-en-leren">Ontwikkelen en leren</h2>
<p>Over de inhoud: iconologie en iconografie</p>
<ul>
<li>Toepassing van bovenstaande in educatieve context</li>
<li>De techniek en het vormpotentieel toepassen in eigen projecten</li>
<li>De lol van het proberen, ontdekken: toegepaste nieuwsgierigheid</li>
</ul>
<p>Het begint en eindigt vooral met dat laatste, want drukken met Lego is fijn.</p>
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<p>Mind you: the showing up should be a sustainable and well considered practice from a sufficiently relaxed and open mind. Yes, put in your reps. No, no need to grind.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Stijl is geen ingrediënt maar een uitkomst. Stijl is het resultaat van de uitgangspunten en keuzes die je gemaakt hebt bij het oplossen van het ontwerpvraagstuk.</p>
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<p>Found out about <a href="https://twitter.com/tocall_magazine">@tocall_magazine</a> by <a href="https://www.psw.gallery/">psw gallery</a>, via <a href="https://www.instagram.com/danni_storm/">danni storm</a> on the instagrams. Ordered a few of the good looking publications from there. I am curious to see, feel the specific material characteristics of this technique.</p>
<p>We have two stencil duplicators at the printmaking studio that we want to make operational again. This might just be the inspirational trigger to make that happen. See also: <a href="https://www.mimeographrevival.com/">mimeographrevival</a>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>“One should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across their mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet one dismisses without notice their thought, because it is theirs. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”</p>
<p>Or, originally:</p>
<p>“A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”</p>
<p>— Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>This is why you take your journaling and note writing seriously and at the same time do it without too much self censorship. That spark of insight may well come at some later moment, as the result of multiple half-thoughts connecting in new and interesting ways.</p>
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<p>A long, long time ago, 16*16 pixels was what you&rsquo;d get to draw a digital icon. The Lego lettpress bird designs are essentially made at the same resolution: built on a 16x16 baseplate.</p>
<p>One big difference is that a single point in this grid can be filled with more than a full square &lsquo;pixel&rsquo;. There&rsquo;s dots, shields, quarter circles, thin lines and other more custom shapes that can be placed within this 16 point grid. These other shapes leave parts of the pixel-area open, thus creating additional shapes (negative space). Printing in multiple layers allows for even more variations. Similar to the different kinds of path operations in vector drawing programs.</p>
<p><figure><img src="/img/inkscape-path-operations.jpg"
    alt="Screenshot of menu items and icons for path operations in Inkscape: Union, difference, Intersection, Exclusion, Division, Cut path.">
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<em>Path operations in Inkscape</em></p>
<p>I could never confidently imagine the result of those actions, always had to try a couple to achieve the desired result.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m getting better at it with the manual approach using LEGO stamps, but this really is the part where the mindf*ck happens. Most design details need multiple tests to get things right, especially because the order of printing is a deciding factor.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>De vierde editie van &ldquo;Volume - onderzoek in oplage&rdquo; is momenteel <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/2022/02/13/volume-04/">te zien in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum</a>. Tien kunstenaars maakten een of meerdere zines.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/cs4-zines.jpg">
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<p><em>Kalligrafische Ruimte is naast de vogelprenten het andere langlopend grafisch onderzoeksproject.</em></p>
<p><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/kalligrafische-ruimte/">Kalligrafische Ruimte</a> is de onderstroom voor de vogelprenten bovenstroom. Dit jaar leverde dat twee zines op.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/cs4-initial.jpg">
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<p><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/zine-kalligrafische-ruimte-4a">Kalligrafische Ruimte 4a</a> bevat een historisch overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de verluchte kapitaal in manuscripten, van de late klassieke oudheid tot het eind van de Middeleeuwen. Die versierde eerste letter van een handgeschreven tekst is een uniek tekst/beeld format. Binnen dit kleine canvas is ruim duizend jaar lang op allerlei manieren geëxperimenteerd met combinaties van letter, beeld en decoratie/ornament. Naast een beknopt overzicht in zes tijdvakken bevat zine 4a een selectie eigen dagboekoefeningen in het format van de verluchte kapitaal.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/cs4-print.jpg">
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<p><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/zine-kalligrafische-ruimte-4b">Kalligrafische Ruimte 4b</a> bevat meer abstracte interpretaties van letter en (versierd) beeld. Abstracte en grafische letterachtige vormen in LEGO® staan in/over organisch geschreven/gedrukte monoprints. Werktitel voor deze serie is Spiculae. Spiculae is de term voor kleine skelet-elementen in zeesponzen. De structuur-fragmenten voor primitief leven dus. Wat ik zo fascinerend vind aan verluchte initialen in Middeleeuwse manuscripten is dat daarin de symbolische vorm van een letter gecombineerd wordt met natuurlijke, wereldlijke weergaves van mens, dier en natuur. De letter staat zo als het ware nog geworteld in, is verbonden met de tastbare wereld zelf.</p>
<p>In tijden van nepnieuws en online informatieoorlogen valt op hoever een tekst losgezongen kan raken van de (of zelfs maar een) realiteit. De prenten in deze Spiculae serie zijn een bescheiden poging de abstractie van een lettervorm weer te doen aarden in de rommelige en organische werkelijkheid van het leven zelf.</p>
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<p>A second go at establishing the basic gestalt of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_greenfinch">European Greenfinch</a> (<a href="https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/ontdek-vogels/kennis-over-vogels/vogelgids/vogel/groenling">Groenling</a>). Now to break out this overall shape into separate formes for each color.</p>
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<p>Finished bird print number 36 of 50 today. The blue-headed wagtail, a.k.a. Gele kwikstaart. Five baseplates with each one or more colors seems to be the average number of layers needed to construct and print the complete design.</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s a bit about the so-called &ldquo;<a href="/boomklever">Tree sticker</a>&rdquo; (Eurasian Nuthatch), which was the second print in the series.</p>
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<p><em>Transformatie van de antieke erfenis</em></p>
<p>De codex verdringt de perkamentrol als de primaire drager van teksten. Mede door toenemende invloed van het christelijk kloosterleven verandert ook de manier waarop teksten gebruikt worden: van gesproken voordracht naar lezen in contemplatie. Daarmee verandert ook de relatie tussen maker en gebruiker. Perkamentrollen werden eerder gemaakt door slaven, voor anderen. In het klooster zijn schrijver (kopiist), kunstenaar (verluchter) en lezer (monnik) vaak dezelfde persoon. Persoonlijk gebruik van een boek en grote invloed op de productie ervan creëren zo de context voor creatieve inventies.</p>
<p>Interpunctie, spaties en dergelijke werden in de klassieke oudheid vrijwel niet toegepast. Met het veranderende gebruik (van voordragen naar lezen) werd visueel navigeren binnen de tekst belangrijker.</p>
<p>Op de bewaard gebleven bladen van de <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergilius_Augusteus">Vergilius Augusteus</a> uit de vierde eeuw wordt de eerste letter op de pagina vergroot en versierd weergegeven. Deze versierde initialen markeren nog geen specifieke sectie binnen de tekst, het kwam gewoon zo uit. De tekst is geschreven in tijdrovende romeinse kapitalen, strak in het gelid.</p>
<p><figure><img src="/img/vergilius-augusteus.jpg">
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<em>Via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergilius_Augusteus">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
<p>In de <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alexandrinus">Codex Alexandrinus</a>, een Grieks manuscript uit de vijfde eeuw wordt het begin van een sectie gemarkeerd door de eerste letter ervan wat groter te schrijven en deze buiten de tekstkolom te plaatsen. Decoratieve elementen worden gebruikt om het <em>einde</em> van een sectie markeren, niet het begin.</p>
<p><figure><img src="/img/codex-alexandrius.jpg">
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<em>Via <a href="https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/codex-alexandrinus">British Library</a></em></p>
<p>Hetzalnogtotdezevendeeeuwdurenvoordatspatiestussenwoordeneenalgemeengebruikwordt.</p>
<p>De <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergilius_Romanus">Vergilius Romanus</a> uit de vijfde eeuw is het oudst bekende voorbeeld waarin de klassieke voorkeur voor realisme wordt losgelaten voor een gestileerder weergave van mens, object en ruimte.</p>
<p><figure><img src="/img/vergilius-romanus.jpg">
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<em>Via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_Vergil#mw-subcategories">Wikimedia</a></em></p>
<p>In oudere perkamentrollen worden afbeeldingen overwegend vrijstaand tussen de tekst geplaatst.</p>
<p><figure><img src="/img/oude-perkamentrol.jpg">
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<em>Via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergilius_Augusteus">Wikipedia</a></em></p>
<p>In de Vergilius Romanus staan de tekeningen in een duidelijk gemarkeerd kader.</p>
<h2 id="via"><figure><img src="/img/vergilius-romanus-2.jpg">
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<em>Via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_Vergil#mw-subcategories">Wikimedia</a></em></h2>
<p>Bovenstaande is een samenvatting op basis van onderstaande boeken, aangevuld met online beeldmateriaal:</p>
<ul>
<li>Alexander, J. J. G. <em>The Decorated Letter</em>. G. Braziller, 1978.</li>
<li>Alexander, J. J. G. <em>Medieval Illuminators and Their Methods of Work</em>. Yale University Press, 1992.</li>
<li>Pächt, Otto, and Jonathan James Graham Alexander. <em>Book Illumination in the Middle Ages: An Introduction</em>. H. Miller, 1994.</li>
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<p><em>Boomklever / Eurasian nuthatch / Sitta europaea</em></p>
<p>De boomklever is de tweede prent in de serie. De duidelijke afgebakende kleuren maakte het een goede kandidaat om uit te werken. De boomklever is de enige vogel in Nederland die ondersteboven de boomstam afloopt. Natuurlijk daarom ook in de houding af te beelden.</p>
<p>Bij deze tweede prent werd al duidelijk dat twee kleuren danwel twee drukgangen niet voldoende gingen zijn. Naast de extra kleuren en drukgangen is hier ook te zien hoe een latere drukgang over een eerdere gezet wordt: de zwarte strepen bij de staart en de klauwen over de boomstam.</p>
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<p><em>Kleine Karekiet / Eurasian Reed Warbler / Acrocephalus scirpaceus</em></p>
<p>Na wat proeven en tests werd de kleine karekiet de eerste vogel in de serie. Qua kleur weinig bijzonder, maar de houding en de opgezette veertjes op de kop zijn karakteristiek.</p>
<p>Hoe een snavel te drukken is een terugkerend probleem. Deze eerste oplossing is nogal van dik hout als je het vergelijkt met latere oplossingen. De buikpartij is hier vooral lijntekening. De Boomklever is de tweede prent in de serie en daar is dat al anders, met het lijf als vol kleurvlak uitgewerkt. Hier is de witte restvorm die aan de binnenkant ontstaat een interessant gegeven. Er zijn vormen die alleen als negatieve  of rest-vorm gemaakt kunnen worden. Naarmate de serie vordert wordt dit een steeds belangrijker gegeven.</p>
<p>Deze eerste prent is gebaseerd op spelregels die ik daarna al snel los heb gelaten. Ik dacht het af te kunnen met twee kleuren/drukgangen. Dat bleek al snel onhoudbaar. Het groter aantal drukgangen voor de vogel zelf is ook reden om geen extra werk te maken van het tonen van een omgeving. Naarmate de serie vordert valt deze eerste print dus wat uit de toon. En juist daarom hoort die er toch echt bij. Het begin.</p>
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<p>Werken in oplage: niet onbekend. De meeste grafische technieken zijn er op gericht om niet 1 exemplaar van een werk te produceren, maar een oplage van bijvoorbeeld 20, 50 of 80 afdrukken.</p>
<p>Bijeenbrengen van een serie werken onder een gezamenlijke titel: niet onbekend. Een beeldend onderzoek levert immers vaak een set gerelateerde werken op. En juist grafische technieken lenen zich goed voor het verkennen van een onderwerp in een serie werken. Elke ontwerpstap levert een afdruk op en zo documenteert het proces zich als vanzelf. De verdere uitwerking van een onderwerp of thema</p>
<p>Maar al dit tegelijkertijd, oplage <em>en</em> serie:</p>
<ul>
<li>als geheel gebundeld</li>
<li>in eenduidige maatvoering</li>
<li>met pagina&rsquo;s in een vaste volgorde</li>
<li>met een voorkant en een achterkant</li>
<li>en daarbinnen het gegeven &ldquo;spread&rdquo;,</li>
</ul>
<p>dat is anders en eigen aan het beeldend format &lsquo;zine&rsquo;.</p>
<p>Daarbij: tijdschrift. Tijd. Schrift. Meerdere edities is de onderliggende suggestie. Wat staat er in het volgende nummer, en daarna, en daarna?</p>
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<p>Vandaag een inspiratiecollege gegeven aan eerstejaars studenten Communication &amp; Multimedia Design van de Hogeschool Utrecht. 45 minuten voor me uit zitten praten op <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/mindmap-as-outline">basis van een mindmap</a>.</p>
<p>Zoals beloofd hier ook <a href="https://royscholten.com/images/BILDUNG-2020.pdf">de link naar de PDF van mijn Bildung zine</a>. Een selectie van blog posts, schetsboekpagina&rsquo;s en eigen werk uit 2020, samengebracht in een zine van 64 pagina&rsquo;s.</p>
<p>Links met/over het eigen werk:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://royscholten.nl/">https://royscholten.nl/</a>, content architect</li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/">https://bildung.royscholten.nl/</a>, de blog</li>
<li><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/">https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/</a>, printmaking</li>
<li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/royscholtengrafiek/">instagram</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/royscholten">twitter</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Multimedia kan ook analoog! Binnenkort komen twee groepen studenten een kijkje nemen in de werkplaatsen van <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/">Grafisch Atelier Hilversum</a>.</p>
<p>Niet aan toe gekomen tijdens de sessie, onder het kopje &ldquo;curriculum&rdquo; deze boeken en een podcast. Van harte aanbevolen:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://austinkleon.com/books/">Show your work</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Gonnella-Design-Fundamentals-Notes-on-Visual-Elements-and-Principles-of-Composition/PGM281409.html">Notes on visual elements &amp; principles of composition</a>, maar niet meer verkrijgbaar zie ik nu.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/su/?qs=beljon&amp;qt=zo&#43;doe&#43;je&#43;dat">Zo doe je dat</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/f/101-things-i-learned-in-architecture-school/38433556/">101 Things I Learned in Architecture School</a></li>
<li><a href="https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/what-it-is/">What it is</a></li>
<li><a href="https://scratchingthesurface.fm/episodes/">Scratching the Surface (podcast)</a></li>
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<p>2022 is alweer zeven weken onderweg. Misschien komt het door het winterse, donkere seizoen dat verder in het jaar deze eerste maanden me maar vaag voor de geest staan. Omdat ik afgelopen weken dagelijks hier wat gepost heb (gisteren voor het eerst niet) kan ik nu al wat terugblikken en zien wat we de afgelopen periode bezig heeft gehouden:</p>
<h2 id="kalligrafische-ruimte-4">Kalligrafische ruimte 4</h2>
<p>2022 is inmiddels het vierde jaar waarin kunstenaars verbonden aan Grafisch Atelier Hilversum eigen publicaties presenteren: <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/2022/02/13/volume-04/">Volume#4</a>. Motto: onderzoek in oplage. De vorm: zine.</p>
<p>Binnen mijn beeldend onderzoek over de Kalligrafische Ruimte heb ik tot nu toe elk jaar een zine samengesteld met een compilate van de resultaten en uitkomsten van het voorgaande jaar. Dit jaar was er meer materiaal en was er ook inhoudelijk een duidelijke scheiding te maken. Daarom dit jaar twee zines:</p>
<h3 id="kalligrafische-ruimte-iva"><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/zine-kalligrafische-ruimte-4a/">Kalligrafische Ruimte IVa</a></h3>
<p>Een <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/the-ambigious-weaving-and-merging-of-text-image-and-decoration">geschiedenis in vogelvlucht van meer dan duizend jaar verluchte initialen in westerse manuscripten</a>.</p>
<h3 id="kalligrafische-ruimte-4b"><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/node/137/">Kalligrafische Ruimte 4b</a></h3>
<p>Tussen taal en teken ligt de ruimte voor betekenis. Abstracte oefeningen in het format van de verluchte initiaal op basis van <em>gedrukte</em> in plaats van geschreven symbolische tekens.</p>
<h2 id="structured-content">Structured content</h2>
<p>Meer in het digitale domein: de uitdagingen van het modelleren, produceren en presenteren van gestructureerde inhoud. Ik ben hier nog in de onderzoek- en verzamelfase voor wat misschien ook wel een zine gaat worden. Voor nu dus vooral links naar bronnen elders:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/dingen-over-gestructureerde-content">Dingen over gestructureerde content</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/lego-as-analogy-for-structured-content">Lego as analogy for structured content</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/middeleeuwse-content-mappen">Middeleeuwse content mappen</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="bildung">Bildung</h2>
<h3 id="over-repertoire">Over repertoire</h3>
<p>Enkele overpeinzingen over het idee van een repertoire; het geheel aan wat je kan uitvoeren.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/over-repertoire">Over repertoire</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/de-partituur-is-niet-de-uitvoering">De partituur is niet de uitvoering</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/repertoire-example">Repertoire example</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Pattern repertoire:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/legoprintpatterns">Lego print patterns</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/found-it">Found it (new grammer of ornament book)</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Imre Reiner en het ornament:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/meet-imre-reiner-playful-modernest-printmaker-lettering-artist-and-typographer">Meet Imre Reiner, playful modernist printmaker, lettering artist and typographer</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/meer-imre-reiner-typografie-en-ornament">Meer Imre Reiner: typografie en ornament</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="diagrammen-en-modellen">Diagrammen en modellen</h2>
<p>Die vorm van &rsquo;tekening&rsquo; die helpt (be)grip te krijgen op hetgecompliceerde/complexe.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/diagrammatic-linkage">Diagrammatic linkage</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/about-concept-models">About-concept-models</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/middeleeuwse-content-mappen">Middeleeuws content mappen</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/mindmap-as-outline">Mindmap as outline</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/HiredThought/status/1494794001513435136">Zie ook</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="designerly-ways-of-being-and-doing">Designerly ways of being and doing</h3>
<p>Waarom deze blog bildung heet:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/teaching-designerly-ways-of-knowing">https://bildung.royscholten.nl/teaching-designerly-ways-of-knowing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/maak-geen-plan-voor-wat-je-gaat-maken-maar-maak-een-plan-voor-wat-je-gaat">Maak geen plan voor wat je gaat maken</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="birds-have-lift-off">Birds have lift-off</h2>
<p>In februari zorgde <a href="https://twitter.com/royscholten/status/1491423919848718342">een enkele reply-tweet</a> voor flink wat internationale aandacht voor de vogelprenten.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/a-1000-true-likes">A 1000 true likes</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/more-bird-print-promotion">More bird print promotion</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/vogelvlucht">Vogelvlucht</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/vogels-aan-de-wand">Vogels aan de wand</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/de-resultaten-van-de-tuinvogeltelling-2022-alhier-ter-plaatse-zijn-als-volgt">De resultaten van de tuinvogeltelling 2022 alhier ter plaatse zijn als volgt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/35-vogels-aan-de-muur">35 vogels aan de muur</a></li>
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<p>Next week I&rsquo;ll give a talk to first year students Communications and Multimedia Design at the Hogeschool Utrecht. I&rsquo;ve decided to use this mindmap as the place to present from instead of using slides. The mindmap serves as a rough timeline of my activities and contains links to files and folders on my laptop. Where appropriate I can follow those and open additional PDFs, images and whatnot.</p>
<p>This is another example of how a mindmap helps me establish structure and content of a talk in parallel. (previously: <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/middeleeuwse-content-mappen">this one</a>) From the same view I can add detail by adding notes on any one of the items in the map. I really like how this lets me zoom in and work on the actual contents, then zoom out again to tweak the overall flow of things.</p>
<p>I learned this from <a href="https://www.elliottearls.com/">Elliott Earls</a>. He just posted a new episode <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM4rckC5t6s">Alpha designer, Beta designer</a>. You can see there how he used a mindmap to plot his argument before recording <em>and</em> progressively shows and expands it in the video itself. His <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_1qlsIrMnixjorbUg4k3RA">Studio Practice videos</a> come highly recommended.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHd24Gi-G4">The Mind Is For Having Ideas, Not Holding Them</a> may be the best half hour executive summary of David Allen&rsquo;s Getting Things Done method.</p>
<p>Nobody has &ldquo;fulfill destiny as a human being on this planet&rdquo; on their to do list, but ultimately that <em>is</em> what it boils down to.</p>
<p>The requirements: Control &amp; Perspective.</p>
<h2 id="control">Control</h2>
<ul>
<li><em>Capture</em> what has your attention</li>
<li><em>Clarify</em> if this needs action, if so, what done means and what doing looks like</li>
<li><em>Organize</em> these commitments and decisions in a trusted system</li>
<li><em>Reflect</em> on best way to engage, decide on next action</li>
<li><em>Engage</em>, do it</li>
</ul>
<p>This approach to getting things under control applies to multiple levels of perspective:</p>
<h2 id="perspective">Perspective</h2>
<ul>
<li><em>Purpose</em></li>
<li><em>Principles</em> your rules of engagement</li>
<li><em>Goals</em> 12-18 month horizon</li>
<li><em>Responsibilities</em> 4-7 areas to maintain</li>
<li><em>Projects</em> things to finish within a year</li>
<li><em>Actions</em> things to do</li>
</ul>
<p>And don&rsquo;t expect to stay in control but get thrown off multiple times each day. Notice it happening and regroup.</p>
<h2 id="good-practice">Good practice</h2>
<ul>
<li>Pay attention to what has your attention</li>
<li>Decide on desired <em>outcomes</em> and the <em>actions</em> required</li>
<li>Free your psyche with a trusted system</li>
<li>Teach what you need to learn the most</li>
<li>Share these ideas</li>
</ul>
<p>&ndash;</p>
<p>Using GTD does tend to generate its own kind of busywork. Still, I find it true that the clarity that comes from this control and perspective is needed for finding the right way in and through the mess of work, art, life.</p>
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<p>Another website featuring my 50 birds print series: <a href="https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2022/02/roy-scholten-50-birds/">LEGO Letterpress: Bird Species from The Netherlands Are Printed with Everyone’s Favorite Toy Bricks</a></p>
<p>Previously: <a href="http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/play-to-wing">Play to Wing</a> on Present and Correct.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Een specifiek soort muziekstuk dat me raakt is de compositie waarin ijl engelachtig gezang zweeft boven hectische beats, breaks en riffs.</p>
<p>Zoals de zuiver schone lelie ontspruit aan de troebelel wirwar aan stengels en blad onder de waterspiegel.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NReT4f1bXY0">Diary of a mad man</a> / Gravediggaz</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3abJlF9jk6M5JoFSTg2XZ2?si=bd67fca517964c55">G-Force Jesus</a> / Ed Rush</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6Paon2GSO2btqO6qmS6hSE?si=3ff9f906ae884ec2">Ghost Love Score</a> / Nightwish (bijv. vanaf 1:38, 8:25, 9:02!)</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2j42kxVAgj2oyIvsNNPWpT?highlight=spotify:track:0P9npGok8weIThLkrgD93v">Ashtray wasp</a>, heel de Kindred EP / Burial</li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmtrr6mcT7Y">Scream Phoenix</a> / Cannibal Ox</li>
</ul>
<p>Ben benieuwd naar meer voorbeelden als je ze kent.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPlK5HwFxcw">Hymn of the Cherubim</a> is onder andere zo speciaal omdat het dit aards tranendal achterwege laat en met enkel etherisch gezang vervoering teweeg brengt.</p>
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<p>bought <a href="https://calligraphicspace.com/new-grammar-of-ornament">it</a>: New Grammar of Ornament.</p>
<p>At first glance the examples seem to be more about cataloguing the different structures for creating patterns than about actual ornaments as embellishments.</p>
<p>The title &ldquo;A new grammar of ornament&rdquo; seems a bit too eager to refer back to and build upon the 1856 book <a href="https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone">Grammar of Ornament</a>. The focus in the new one is very much on the grammar part. Categories like &ldquo;Minimal triangular with dots&rdquo; and &ldquo;minimal triangular with lines&rdquo; primarily refer to how individual parts in the pattern relate to eachother while at the same time choosing to consider only the most elementary units of ornament: dots, lines, shapes. This may be intentional so that the focus actually stays on the grammatical rules underlying the patterns. But then why are the <a href="https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/page/n83/mode/2up">examples</a> in the <a href="https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/page/n115/mode/2up">old</a> <a href="https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/page/n187/mode/2up">grammar</a> so much <a href="https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/page/n225/mode/2up">richer</a>?</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Make something.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2022-doubt-poster-big.jpg"
    alt="A large letterpress poster with the text &#39;When in doubt, make something&#39; printed in black with mixed wood type on white paper.">
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<p>A propos of <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/teaching-designerly-ways-of-knowing">designerly ways of knowing</a> this bears repeating.</p>
<p>I expect to produce another print run of this poster this year.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Teaching-Design/Meredith-Davis/9781621535300">Teaching Design</a> is a guide to curriculum and pedagogy for college design faculty and teachers who use design in their classrooms</p>
<figure><img src="/img/designerly-ways.jpg">
</figure>

<p>It has this table positioning design as a third domain of knowledge next to science and the humanities. A third way of being in the world.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/1511801">Designerly Ways of Knowing: Design Discipline versus Design Science</a> by Nigel Cross goes into the relationships between design and science. Also by Cross is <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-thinking-9781847888464/">Design Thinking,
Understanding How Designers Think and Work</a>, which is &ldquo;an ideal guide for anyone who wants to be a designer or to know how good designers work in the field of contemporary design&rdquo;.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>One of the most interesting and helpful types of diagram is the concept model. Concept models are a visual explanation of the parts and connections within some  complicated thing. In these parts, that thing is often a software application.</p>
<p>Besides communicating the big picture, creating a concept model is an exercise in aligning the user&rsquo;s mental model (how they think it works) with the technical model (how it works behind the scenes).</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/mental-model-1.jpg">
</figure>

<p>The &ldquo;OOUX&rdquo; term on the note above refers to <a href="https://www.ooux.com/">OOUX.com</a>, a UX design method that I <em>think</em> applies this way of thinking to the work of designing for digital products and services. Need to look into it more.</p>
<h2 id="its-about-designing-what-to-design">It&rsquo;s about designing what to design</h2>
<p>&ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_DWYYZD31w">Designing what to design</a>&rdquo; gets to the core of why making a concept model is useful: by establishing the constituent parts and their relations you&rsquo;ll also clarify all the things that are <em>not</em> going to part of the thing (for now).</p>
<p>Some links to articles and videos exploring this particular type of diagram more in depth:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_DWYYZD31w">Conceptual models, core to good design</a> - &ldquo;designing what to design&rdquo;</li>
<li>Christina Wodtke - <a href="https://boxesandarrows.com/how-to-make-a-concept-model/">How to make a concept model</a> &amp; <a href="https://cwodtke.medium.com/a-visual-vocabulary-for-concept-models-f771b2b2e9">Visual Vocabulary for Concept Models</a></li>
<li><a href="https://eleganthack.com/dave-gray-makes-a-concept-model/">Wodtke asks Dave Gray to draw a concept model</a></li>
</ul>
<p>And here&rsquo;s <a href="https://yoroy.com/pieces/views-2-module-concept-model/">the one I did for the Drupal Views module</a></p>
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    alt="Gouden grashalmen op de hei in het late middaglicht met de bosrand in de verte en een dreigend donkere lucht erboven.">
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<hr>
<figure><img src="/img/wandeling-2.jpg"
    alt="Oplichtende grashalmen op de hei met een geelgrijs dreigende lucht.">
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						<![CDATA[<figure><img src="/img/tumblr-archive.jpg"
    alt="Thumbnails van monoprints, etsen, tekeningen en computer graphics uit juni 2012.">
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<p><a href="https://pixelgrafiek.tumblr.com/archive/">Prenten en tekeningen van zo&rsquo;n tien jaar geleden</a> op een tumblr account waar ik geen toegang meer toe heb.</p>
<p>(situatie-)tekenen is zoooo fijn en belangrijk maar schiet er ook zo makkelijk bij in.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/tumblr-teuntje.png"
    alt="Snelle schets in droge viltstift van een jong meisjesgezicht."><figcaption>
      <h4>Dochter T., vier jaar oud</h4>
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<figure><img src="/img/tumblr-strand.jpg"
    alt="Ouder en kind op de rug gezien, ze staan hand in hand en kijken uit over de zee."><figcaption>
      <h4>Aan het strand.</h4>
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<p>Verluchte initialen in middeleeuwse manuscripten waren eeuwenlang het toneel waarop de relatie tussen tekst en beeld uitgespeeld werd.</p>
<p>Gedurende de meer dan duizend jaar tussen de late oudheid en de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst werd op dit relatief kleine canvas op vele manieren de grens tussen letter en tekening dan weer vervaagd, dan weer aangescherpt. In perioden waarin meer op de klassieke oudheid werd teruggegrepen werden symbool en figuur duidelijker van elkaar gescheiden. Zodra het christelijk geestelijk leven en lokale tradities weer de overhand kregen vloeiden tekst en beeld meer in elkaar over.</p>
<p>George Charles Williamson schreef in 1911 voor de encyclopedia brittanica over miniaturen in middeleeuwse handschriften het volgende: “Landscape, such as it was, soon became quite conventional, setting the example for *that remarkable absence of the true representation of nature which is such a striking attribute of the miniatures of the middle ages.”</p>
<p>De meer schematische weergave van de fysieke wereld bood meer ruimte voor verknopingen van figuren met letters, van letters met decoratie, van decoratie met figuren, etc. Deze ambiguïteit ligt aan de basis van een uniek kalligrafisch-picturaal repertoire.</p>
<p>In een tijd waarin inhoud opgehakt wordt in informatie, en informatie in data, waarin het spreadsheet het voornaamste ontwerpinstrument is, biedt deze ambiguïteit ook nu een welkom tegengeluid: tussen taal en teken ligt de ruimte voor betekenis en kan uitdrukking worden gegeven aan het onzegbare.</p>
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<p>Sinds een week of twee zie ik dat mensen mijn <a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/1265229897091502080">&lsquo;Structured Content&rsquo; Twitter lijst</a> beginnen te volgen. Al wel 19! In de tussentijd ook wat mensen aan die lijst toegevoegd. Suggesties welkom. Er is online genoeg over het onderwerp te vinden, waaronder een heel boek: <a href="https://deanebarker.net/books/real-world-content-modeling/">Real World Content Modeling</a>.</p>
<p>Een paar eigen posts die aan dit onderwerp raken:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://bildung.royscholten.nl/simulating-a-content-model-in-obsidian">Simulating a content model in Obsidian</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bildung.royscholten.nl/when-is-a-content-type">When is a content type?</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/lego-as-analogy-for-structured-content">Lego as analogy for structured content</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/gerry-mcgovern-asks">Gerry McGovern asks: (on architecture and hierarchy)</a></li>
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			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/sure-design-is-how-it-works-but-it-is-content-that-is-doing-the-actual-work/</link>
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						<![CDATA[<p>In zijn boek &ldquo;Grafika, Beispiele fur Typographie und Illustration&rdquo; uit 1947 presenteert <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/meet-imre-reiner-playful-modernest-printmaker-lettering-artist-and-typographer">Imre Reiner</a> een overzicht van eigen werk waarin hij moderne typografie combineert met ornament.</p>
<p>Reiner vraagt zich af welke plaats het ornament nog mag hebben in de moderne typografie. Hij ziet twee tempi in de samenleving op dat moment. Het jachtige van de industriële zakelijkheid en de rustiger evoluerende kunst. Het ornament werd overgeleverd door hen die voorgingen en wat we er nu mee doen is aan ons is zijn uitgangspunt. Bij voorstanders van de nieuwe zakelijkheid zitten die ouderwetse bloemetjes, rozetjes en sterretjes alleen maar in de weg. (Eind 19e eeuw hadden drukkers het ook wel erg bont gemaakt wat dat betreft.)</p>
<p>Maar, haalt Reiner aan, de oude muziek van Bach, Mozart, Beethoven staat nog steeds in hoog aanzien en staat de creatie van nieuwe moderne muziek niet in de weg. Wat hem betreft mag dat ook gelden voor de typografie.</p>
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<blockquote>
<p>A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques.</p>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVTubFxQjfY">How to diagram</a> by Abby Covert.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.slideshare.net/potherca/deliverables-that-clarify-focus-and-improve-design">Deliverables that Clarify, Focus, and Improve Design</a>, which has <a href="https://twitter.com/sugarfreejones/status/1487447602014605312">this great diagram</a></li>
<li>Diagramming with words in <a href="https://www.organiseideas.com/">Organise ideas</a> written by &amp; for teachers.</li>
<li>A quite meta meditation on the above in <a href="https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/diagrammatic-writing/#publication_2341">Diagrammatic writing</a> by Joanna Drucker: &ldquo;a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning.&rdquo;</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1488207069136228353">Jeff Eaton</a> shares an approach for when lightweight diagramming can&rsquo;t meaningfully capture the underlying complexity of a very large content environment.</li>
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<li>1 ekster</li>
<li>1 houtduif</li>
<li>5 huismussen</li>
<li>2 kauwen</li>
<li>2 koolmezen</li>
<li>1 merel</li>
<li>2 pimpelmezen</li>
<li>1 turkse tortel<br>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Kleine stapjes in vinyl:</p>
<ul>
<li>Kanye&rsquo;s My beautiful dark twisted fantasy, samen met zoonlief gekocht. Geschift meesterwerk.</li>
<li>Iskandr - <a href="https://haeresisnoviomagi.com/store/product/iskandr-vergezicht-lp/">Vergezicht</a>. Iskandr is de Nederlandse Bathory?</li>
<li>Forhist - <a href="https://www.babylondoomcultrecords.com/product/forhist-forhist-lp/">Forhist</a>. Een <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blut_Aus_Nord">Vindsval</a> project, maar dan in het bos.</li>
<li>Lhaäd - <a href="https://www.babylondoomcultrecords.com/product/lhaad-below-lp/">Below</a>. Hadopelagic black metal. The hadal zone, also known as the hadopelagic zone, is the deepest region of the ocean.</li>
<li>Floating Points &amp; Pharaoh Sanders - <a href="https://floatingpoints.bandcamp.com/album/promises">Promises</a>. Ambient jazz, deel 1.</li>
<li>Nala Sinephro - <a href="https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com">Space 1.8</a>. Ambient jazz, deel 2.</li>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Verluchte initialen in middeleeuwse manuscripten waren eeuwenlang het toneel waarop de relatie tussen tekst en beeld uitgespeeld werd.</p>
<p>Gedurende de meer dan duizend jaar tussen de late oudheid en de uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst werd op dit relatief kleine canvas op vele manieren de grens tussen letter en tekening dan weer vervaagd, dan weer aangescherpt. In perioden waarin meer op de klassieke oudheid werd teruggegrepen werden symbool en figuur duidelijker van elkaar gescheiden. Zodra het christelijk geestelijk leven en lokale tradities weer de overhand kregen vloeiden tekst en beeld meer in elkaar over.</p>
<p>George Charles Williamson schreef in 1911 voor de encyclopedia brittanica over miniaturen in middeleeuwse handschriften het volgende: “Landscape, such as it was, soon became quite conventional, setting the example for <em>that remarkable absence of the true representation of nature</em> which is such a striking attribute of the miniatures of the middle ages.”</p>
<p>De meer schematische weergave van de fysieke wereld bood meer ruimte voor verknopingen van figuren met letters, van letters met decoratie, van decoratie met figuren, etc. Deze ambiguïteit ligt aan de basis van een uniek kalligrafisch-picturaal repertoire.</p>
<p>In een tijd waarin inhoud opgehakt wordt in informatie, informatie opgesplitst wordt in data en het spreadsheet het voornaamste ontwerpinstrument is, biedt deze ambiguïteit ook nu een welkom tegengeluid: tussen taal en teken ligt de ruimte voor betekenis en kan uitdrukking worden gegeven aan het onzegbare.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.thecramped.com/">Thecramped.com</a> is a lovingly curated collection of links “celebrating the unique pleasures of analog writing”. Today, a link to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/carry-a-notebook-everywhere/">Why Martha McPhee Carries a Notebook Everywhere | Wirecutter</a>, with the wonderful phrase “…to track the uncharted territory of the present moment”. Good to see the great <a href="https://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/">Lynda Barry</a> mentioned in the article as an inspiration and mentor for journaling wisdom.</p>
<p>Also, do you ever just edit the url of those wordpress sites and put in some number for &ldquo;/page/X/&rdquo;? Got lucky doing that here, because <a href="http://www.thecramped.com/page/40/">http://www.thecramped.com/page/40/</a> has a post on a clip that I had a memory of but wouldn&rsquo;t have known how to find again: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab0rt_QokBI">Gay Talese gives a tour of his distraction-free writing space and explains his reporting process.</a>. More analogue goodness.</p>
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<p>De eerste oplages van Kalligrafische Ruimte IVa en IVb zijn vandaag bezorgd.</p>
<p><strong>Kalligrafische Ruimte IVa</strong>: een <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/the-ambigious-weaving-and-merging-of-text-image-and-decoration">geschiedenis in vogelvlucht van meer dan duizend jaar verluchte initialen in westerse manuscripten</a>. Daarbij een analyse van de verschillende bestanddelen en <a href="https://snap.as/roy/csiv-initials">eigen dagboekoefeningen</a> in het format. De inleiding is voorzien van handgeletterde initialen.</p>
<p><strong>Kalligrafische Ruimte IVb</strong>: tussen taal en teken ligt de ruimte voor betekenis. Abstracte oefeningen in het format van de verluchte initiaal op basis van <em>gedrukte</em> in plaats van geschreven symbolische tekens.</p>
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			<title>Meet Imre Reiner, playful modernest printmaker, lettering artist and typographer</title>
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<p>Hungarian-Swiss painter, printmaker and <a href="http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-24165.html">typographer / lettering artist</a> from the twentieth century. Playful modernist with a strong emphasis on the handwritten. Some images <a href="http://www.letterology.com/2011/02/iconoclast-designer-imre-reiner.html">here</a>. Here&rsquo;s a <a href="https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-imre-reiner-and-ornamental-modernism/">short article</a> about Reiner by Stephen Heller, which also has this link to <a href="http://www.ku-viscom.com/404/images/ImreReiner.pdf">this PDF with more images of Reiner&rsquo;s work</a>. I like his <a href="https://www.myfonts.com/fonts/mti/matura-mt/">Matura</a> typeface.</p>
<p>(todo: look up the Latvian-Russion calligrapher and book cover designer whose work seems, although less whimsical seems related though their calligraphic approach to typography.)</p>
<p><strong>Edit:</strong> That would be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villu_Toots">Villu Toots</a>, with a few images to look at <a href="http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-44766.html">here</a> and this is the <a href="https://www.johnnealbooks.com/product/villu-toots-100-book-covers">book with 100 book covers</a>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Tijdens de <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen/print-play/">Print &amp; Play workshops</a> daag ik deelnemers uit om zoveel mogelijk vanuit een onderzoekende houding te werk te gaan. &ldquo;Wat zou er gebeuren als je dit doet? En wat als je dat zou proberen?&rdquo;</p>
<p>Dat gaat tijdens de eerste sessie als vanzelf omdat je je nog geen voorstelling heeft kunnen maken van de techniek en het soort resultaten dat je er van kunt verwachten. Je duikt er onbevangen in en komt zo tot een interessante serie prints.</p>
<p>De valkuil is dat zich in de aanloop naar de tweede sessie al te concrete ideeën en plannen vormen voor een specifiek eindresultaat. Al doende kom je er dan achter dat er een duidelijk verschil is tussen een geslaagd experiment en een gericht plan van aanpak. &ldquo;Het&rdquo; lukt dan opeens niet.</p>
<p>Daarom: maak geen plan voor wat je wil <em>maken</em> maar maak een plan voor wat je wil gaan <em>proberen</em>. Bepaal op welk (deel)experiment je meer grip wil krijgen en maak daar de volgende serie werken bij. Grote kans dat je dan iets zodanig in de vingers krijgt dat je het gericht kunt toepassen en &ldquo;het&rdquo; daarna wel lukt.</p>
<p>Zin om ook iets te proberen? <a href="https://gahilversum.nl/cursussen-en-workshops/print-play/">Print &amp; Play workshop sessies</a> in Grafisch Atelier Hilversum.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Articles, books, collections related to the medieval codex in general, the illuminated initial in particular.</p>
<h2 id="general-introductions">General introductions</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/blog/lighting-the-way-how-illuminated-initials-guided-medieval-readers-through-books">Lighting the Way - How illuminated initials guided medieval readers through books</a>. Well illustrated introduction</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="manuscript-illumination">Manuscript illumination</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp">Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms</a>, the online version of the book by Michelle P. Brown</li>
<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/decoratedletter0000alex">The Decorated Letter</a> by J.J.G. Alexander</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="late-anquity">Late Anquity</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2036">Vergilius Augusteus, the Earliest Codex Written Entirely in Roman Square Capitals, and the Earliest Codex with a Large Ornamented Initial Letter at the Beginning of Each Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/210493">Vergilius, Opera</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergilius_Augusteus">Vergilius Augusteus</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ub.uu.se/about-the-library/exhibitions/codex-argenteus/">Codex Argenteus</a>, <a href="http://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record%3A60279&amp;dswid=-1457">(Browse)</a>.</li>
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<h2 id="digitized-manuscript-collections">Digitized manuscript collections</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.bsb-muenchen.de/sammlungen/handschriften/sprachenregionen/abendlaendische-handschriften/">Highlights from the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek</a></li>
<li><a href="https://digitale-sammlungen.de/en/collections">Collections at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munchen</a>. For example: <a href="https://digitale-sammlungen.de/en/c/e5d21fa6-5fba-4d4a-a243-2a4ef5b7661c/about?">Book Illuminations from the Reichenau Monastery</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="scripts-writing-typography">Scripts, writing, typography</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.typeoff.de/blackletter-resources/">Blackletter resources</a> by Dr. Dan Reynolds has a short history and classification of blackletter scripts plus an extensive list of books and online resources for more information.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.gwern.net/Red">Rubrication design examples</a>, a gallery of typographic and graphics design examples of rubrication, a classic pattern of using red versus black for emphasis.</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="lombardic-letters">Lombardic letters</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/kuip008lomb01_01/kuip008lomb01_01_0001.php#006">Wat zijn eigenlijk lombarden?</a>. &lsquo;Lombarden, paragraaf- en semiparagraaftekens in Middelnederlandse epische teksten&rsquo;, Willem Kuiper, 1980</li>
<li><a href="https://www.fonthaus.com/fonts/monotypeimaging/goudy-text/MI15162147">Goudy Lombardic Capitals</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="digital-fonts">Digital fonts</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.sch%C3%A4ffel.ch/fonts.html">KPS Fonts</a>, 74 free fonts divided in four groups: paleographic, typographic, interpretations, inventions. The <a href="https://www.sch%C3%A4ffel.ch/de_gruppe1.html">paleographic collection</a> represents a timeline of western scripts, from the second to the eightteenth century.</li>
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</ul>
<h3 id="books-on-lettering">Books on lettering</h3>
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<li><a href="https://archive.org/details/letteringasdrawi0000gray/mode/2up?view=theater"> Lettering as drawing : contour and silhouette</a>, by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolete_Gray">Nicolette Gray</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/oHNtDQAAQBAJ?hl=en">Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique</a> a comprehensive history and instruction manual by Marc Drogin</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="academic-journals">Academic Journals</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/all-issues/">Peregrinations</a>, journal of medieval art &amp; architecture.</li>
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						<![CDATA[<p><em>Of: hoe een elegante uitspraak al snel precies het tegenovergestelde ging betekenen dan oorspronkelijk bedoeld.</em></p>
<h2 id="over-form-follows-function">Over &ldquo;form follows function&rdquo;</h2>
<p>De Amerikaanse architect Louis Sullivan schreef eind 19e eeuw over hoe te ontwerpen voor het toen nieuwe type object &lsquo;groot kantoorgebouw&rsquo; en de verschillende sociale en economische functies die daarin verenigd worden.</p>
<p>Sullivan vraagt zich af:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Problem: How shall we impart to this sterile pile, this crude, harsh, brutal agglomeration, this stark, staring exclamation of eternal strife, the graciousness of those higher forms of sensibility and culture that rest on the lower and fiercer passions? How shall we proclaim from the dizzy height of this strange, weird, modern housetop the peaceful evangel of sentiment, of beauty, the cult of a higher life?</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Een analyse van de primaire functies en bijpassende architectonische principes volgt. Een begane grond met uitnodigende entree en grote open sociale ruimte daarachter. Een eerste verdieping die dat nog eens dunnetjes over doet en daarna een stapeling van identieke verdiepingen met kantoren, afgetopt door een laatste zolderverdieping. Maar dat is niet voldoende:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But our building may have all these in a considerable degree and yet be far from the adequate solution of the problem I am attempting to define. We must now heed the imperative voice of emotion.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Sullivan&rsquo;s volgende vraag: wat is nou het overkoepelende, fundamentele kenmerk van een hoog kantoorgebouw? Zijn antwoord: de verhevenheid zelve. Het aspect van hoogte moet leidend zijn voor de invulling van elk detail&quot;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>The force and power of altitude must be in it the glory and pride of exaltation must be in it.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Tenslotte werkt Sullivan toe naar een formulering die deze filosofie, deze fundamentele en principiële benadering voor het oplossen van een ontwerpvraagstuk:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>All things in nature have a shape, that is to say, a form, an outward semblance, that tells us what they are, that distinguishes them from ourselves and from each other.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>en:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling workhorse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, <em>form ever follows function</em>, and this is the law. Where function does
not change form does not change.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>want:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. <em>This is the law</em>.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Vorm volgt functie, maar het is juist de <em>ziel</em> van de functie die gevonden moet worden  en waar de passende vorm bij gevonden moet worden.</p>
<p>De laatste zin in dit korte essay (zes pagina&rsquo;s) is 300+ woorden lang.  Sullivan stijgt daarin zelf ook tot extatische hoogtes. Download een PDF van het essay <a href="https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/architecture/4-205-analysis-of-contemporary-architecture-fall-2009/readings/MIT4_205F09_Sullivan.pdf">hier</a>.</p>
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Zie ook: <a href="https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/graphic-designers-have-always-loved-minimalism-but-at-what-cost/">Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But At What Cost?</a></p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Seven things that caught my attention this week, enjoy!</p>
<figure><img src="/img/list-of-figures.png"
    alt="Nine examples of medieval period depictions of the human figure.">
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://spinweaveandcut.com/education-home/">Collected syllabi</a> by comics professor Nick Sousanis</li>
<li>Looks to me that the <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/acanthus">acanthus motif</a> is where Gothic <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/een-voorlopige-en-zeer-tentatieve-tijdlijn-van-de-ontwikkeling-van-het">Fleuronnée initials evolved</a> from.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://scratchingthesurface.fm/post/164240817245/40-mr-keedy">Mr. Keedy episode</a> from Scratching the Surface gets repeated listenings during walks.</li>
<li><em>&quot;<a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/C4COMPUTATION/status/1479666973583626240">Leo Tolstoy on collective phenomena + the difficulty of locating emergence.</a>&quot;</em></li>
<li>Music: <a href="https://music.extraconscious.com/album/below">Below by Lhaäd</a>. <em>&ldquo;Lhaäd is an anagram for hadal: the deepest region of the ocean, lying within oceanic trenches. &lsquo;Below&rsquo;, where light is absent: the perfect surroundings for hadopelagic black metal.&rdquo;</em></li>
<li>Music: <a href="https://nalasinephro.bandcamp.com/album/space-18">Space 1.8 by Nala Sinephro</a>. <em>&ldquo;Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer and musician Nala Sinephro fuses meditative sounds, jazz sensibilities, folk and field recordings.&rdquo;</em></li>
<li><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-76970-3">Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration</a>. <em>&ldquo;This open access book attempts to show that an examination of the list’s formal features has the potential to produce genuine insights into the production of knowledge, the poetics of literature and the composition of visual art.&rdquo;</em></li>
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			<title>De eenentwintigste dagelijkse post</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Wat heeft twintig dagen achtereen ouderwetsch bloggen opgeleverd? Schrijven dwingt je exact te formuleren. Formuleren verscherpt het denken. Da&rsquo;s geen nieuw inzicht, maar dat zelf ervaren is een stuk verfrissender dan het van horen zeggen tegenkomen.</p>
<p>De dagelijkse gewoonte is nog wat fragiel. Meestal het laatste ding van de dag en dat heeft al wat valreep-posts opgeleverd. Door de dag heen korte notities maken van gedaan, gezien, gelezen en gedacht is de basisvoorwaarde. Tussen die kleine brokjes en halve flarden zit altijd wel iets dat gaat vonken en zo vraagt om nadere verkenning.</p>
<p>De langere posts zijn samengesteld uit reeds bestaande fragmenten en notities. De kortere berichten zijn zelf zo&rsquo;n fragment. Liefst zou ik in deze posts twee of drie van die fragmenten bij elkaar brengen, dat levert rijker materiaal op om op voort te bouwen.</p>
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			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/een-voorlopige-en-zeer-tentatieve-tijdlijn-van-de-ontwikkeling-van-het/</link>
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<p>Het lijkt erop dat die uitbundige lijnversieringen in en om lombarden/versalen ontstaan zijn uit steeds eenvoudiger lijntekeningen van het acanthusmotief. Vandaaruit ontwikkelt zich weer een heel nieuw repertoire aan krullen, lussen, haaltjes en meer.</p>
<h2 id="sakramentar-heinrichs-ii---bsb-clm-4456">Sakramentar Heinrichs II. - BSB Clm 4456</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00050763?page=125">https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00050763?page=125</a>
1002-1014, Germany, Regendsburg
Sakramentar Heinrichs II. - BSB Clm 4456.jpg</p>
<h2 id="evangeliar---bsb-clm-4454">Evangeliar - BSB Clm 4454</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00004502?page=72">https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00004502?page=72</a>
Anfang 11. Jahrhundert, Reichenau,
Image: Evangeliar - BSB Clm 4454.jpg</p>
<h2 id="bibel-neues-testament-ohne-evangelien---bsb-clm-18128-">Bibel: Neues Testament (ohne Evangelien) - BSB Clm 18128 !!</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00072163?page=133">https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00072163?page=133</a>
1075-1100
image: Bibel Neues Testament (ohne Evangelien) - BSB Clm 18128.jpg</p>
<h2 id="cambridge-corpus-christi-college-ms-048-bible">Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 048: Bible</h2>
<p><a href="https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/wx717zj2675">https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/wx717zj2675</a>
1170, England, St. Albans
Image: 048_243_R_TC_46.jpg</p>
<h2 id="scheyerer-matutinalbuch-bd-1---bsb-clm-17401">Scheyerer Matutinalbuch, Bd. 1 - BSB Clm 17401</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00091699?page=55">https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00091699?page=55</a>
1215-1230, Germany, Scheyern
image: Scheyerer Matutinalbuch, Bd. 1 - BSB Clm 17401.jpg</p>
<h2 id="carmina-burana---bsb-clm-4660">Carmina Burana - BSB Clm 4660</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00085130?page=7">https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00085130?page=7</a>
1230, Germany, Kärnten/Steiermark oder Südtirol
image: Carmina Burana - BSB Clm 4660.jpg</p>
<h2 id="psalterium-psautier-latin-dit-de-saint-louis-et-de-blanche-de-castille">Psalterium (psautier latin dit de saint Louis et de Blanche de Castille)</h2>
<p><a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7100723j/f284.item.zoom">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7100723j/f284.item.zoom</a>
1225-1235</p>
<h2 id="psautier-dit-de-saint-louis">Psautier dit de saint Louis</h2>
<p><a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8447877n/f186.item.zoom">https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8447877n/f186.item.zoom</a>
1270-1274
Mooie eenvoudige lombarden</p>
<h2 id="book-of-hours-and-psalter">Book of Hours and Psalter</h2>
<p><a href="https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/49173">https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15150coll7/id/49173</a>
1300-1350</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/the-ambigious-weaving-and-merging-of-text-image-and-decoration">elastic weaving of figure and plant motifs</a> so typical of romanesque illumination gets more and more untangled towards the gothic period. Human figures don&rsquo;t have to bend and stretch to fill or fit the initial letter anymore.</p>
<p>These more naturalistic poses and proportions in gothic initials result in increased open space within the shape of the enclosing letter. These spaces get filled with solid color or patterns.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/legprintpatterns-2.jpg">
</figure>

<p>I just might revisit these pattern explorations printed a few years ago.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/legprintpatterns-3.jpg">
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    alt="12 thumbnails of pages that describe and illustrate a very condensed history of the illuminated initial in manuscripts.">
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<p>Twelve pages of a <em>very</em> condensed history of the illuminated initial in manuscripts from western Europe. Covering the 1000+ years between Late Antiquity and the Gothic period, passing by Insular and Merovingian, Carolingan, Ottonian and Romanesque styles/periods.</p>
<p>One main thread across these centuries is the push and pull between classical clarity, separation and definition versus medieval ambigious weaving and merging of text, image and decoration.</p>
<p>18/365 #calligraphicspace #medieval</p>
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<p>In de studio is de muur waar ik de collectie vogelprenten had hangen weer vrijgekomen. Er moeten nog wat spijkers bij om de volledige productie tot nu toe te tonen, maar het zet ook zo al aan tot doorgaan.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/vogelwand-2.jpg"
    alt="Een gestileerde lijntekening in rood, gezet in Lego, met gestileerde water en riet als omgeving."><figcaption>
      <h4>Ibis</h4>
    </figcaption>
</figure>

<p>Een voorloper van het 50 vogels project was deze ibis.</p>
<p>Hier heb ik de verschillende staten van de prent bewaard om voor mezelf inzichtelijk te maken hoe een dergelijk beeld opgebouwd kan worden. Een verschil met de vogelprenten die wel in de serie van 50 passen is dat dit vooral een lijntekening van een ibis is. Dat resulteert in een grafischer, meer gestileerde afbeelding. En de ibis komt niet in het wild in Nederland voor, dat is ook een voorwaarde om binnen de serie te passen.</p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/vogelwand-3.jpg"
    alt="Verschillende staten van de ibisprent in legodruk."><figcaption>
      <h4>Ibis proces</h4>
    </figcaption>
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<p>Een ander aspect dat in de 50 vogels serie al snel uit beeld verdwijnt is een indicatie van een omgeving. Hoe meer detail in de verbeelding van de vogel zelf, hoe meer drukgangen daarvoor nodig zijn. Extra drukgangen om ook nog een omgeving te suggereren zouden de arbeid voor elke oplage te groot maken. Enkel de vogel zelf weergeven bleek daarbij al snel ook krachtiger beelden op te leveren.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><figure class="right"><img src="/img/acanthus-1.png"
    alt="Initial letter C decorated with interlacing scrolls of acanthus."><figcaption>
      <h4>Detail from the Stavelot Bible</h4>
    </figcaption>
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<em><a href="http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_28107_fs001ar">Add MS 28107, 4r.</a></em></p>
<p>The acanthus motif is a specific type of ornament with a long history. Used throughout the centuries in Europe and elsewhere. From classical Greek and Roman architecture, and romanesque book illumination to Arts &amp; Crafts wallpaper designs, Jugendstil objects and <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Acanthus_ornaments">more</a>. Truly an evergreen.</p>
<p>In book illumination often used in combination with, or as motif for, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlace_%28art%29">scroll</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlace_%28art%29">interlace</a> decoration. But even given these terms that strive to identify specific, discrete elements of decoration, it&rsquo;s interesting to that looking at the Stavelot Bible initial above it&rsquo;s impossible to tell where the one stops and the other starts.</p>
<p>Visuals like these are continuous and all-at-once. That these treatments are then used to render a single letter is typical for the medieval interest in ambiguous text and image interplay and an example of <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/that-remarkable-absence-of-the-true-representation-of-nature">that remarkable absence of the true representation of nature</a>.</p>
<p><figure><img src="/img/acanthus-2.jpg"
    alt="A visual timeline of acanthus styles.">
</figure>

<em>Image <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0">CC BY-SA 4.0</a></em></p>
<p>Timeline of acanthus styles (via <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acanthus_%28ornament%29">Wikipedia</a>):</p>
<ul>
<li>a. Greek</li>
<li>b. Roman</li>
<li>c. Byzantine</li>
<li>d. Romanesque</li>
<li>e. &amp; f. Gothic</li>
<li>g. Renaissance</li>
<li>h. &amp; i. Baroque</li>
<li>j. &amp; k. Rococo</li>
</ul>
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<p>Er staan zo. veel. Middeleeuwse manuscripten gedigitaliseerd online.</p>
<p>Vandaag examplaren uit de <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liudolfingen">Ottoonse periode</a> bekeken:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00072162?page=,1">Evangeliar - BSB Clm 23343</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb00059101?page=494,">Riesenbibel Heinrichs IV</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00070697?page=40,">Perikopenbuch aus St. Erentrud in Salzburg</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/view/bsb00087481?page=327,">Evangelistar: Perikopenbuch Heinrichs II</a></li>
<li><a href="https://api.digitale-sammlungen.de/iiif/image/v2/bsb00096593_00080/full/full/0/default.jpg">Volledige afbeelding van het detail hierboven</a></li>
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<p>Het blijft me raken.</p>
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    alt="Foto van een ouderwetse barometer. De wijzers staan op &#39;mooi&#39;."><figcaption>
      <h4>Barometer zegt mooi.</h4>
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						<![CDATA[<p>De verluchte initiaal in Middeleeuwse handschriften fascineert me mateloos. Maar welke dan het meest, en waarom? De specifieke vorm van de versierde beginletter in een handschrift heeft immers een geschiedenis van ruim duizend jaar.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/middeleeuws-content-mappen.jpg"
    alt="Screenshot van een mindmap voor Calligraphic Space Zine nummer 4 met een notitie over proto-penwerk.">
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<p>Dit in kaart brengen doe ik in een digitale mindmap. Daarin kan ik snel schuiven met, en wisselen tussen, de grote brokken. De details bij een specifiek onderdeel voeg ik toe in het bijbehorende notitieveld. Dit zijn vooralsnog vooral links naar online bronnen en wat eerste losse flarden eigen gedachten. De mindmap bevat dus het voorwerk voor uiteindelijk verder uit te schrijven alinea&rsquo;s.</p>
<p>Op deze manier kan ik tegelijkertijd bouwen aan de <em>structuur</em> en de <em>inhoud</em> van dit stuk. &rsquo;s Fijn.</p>
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    alt="Landscape photo of a misty noon at Westerheide.">
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<p>Een kalme wandeling met kleine variaties op de vaste route vanwege een wel heel luide roffel vanuit de boomtoppen.</p>
<p>Een kluitje staartmezen, koolmees, pimpelmees, boomklever, grote bonte specht, een lichte buizerd. Matkop of glanskop, <a href="https://www.vogelbescherming.nl/actueel/bericht/matkop-vs-glanskop-en-vv">het blijft lastig</a>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>See <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorldSketchnoteDay?src=hashtag_click&amp;f=live">#worldsketchnotingday</a></p>
<p>I don&rsquo;t often find myself adding pictural elements to notes I take when <em>reading</em>. When I do, it&rsquo;s mostly simple arrows, boxes or other diagrammatic marks to indicate relative importance and relationships. For example, these are notes I took working through <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_DWYYZD31w">this video on conceptual models</a>. (Which are another kind of sense-making visualisations in themselves, but not now, not now.)</p>
<figure><img src="/img/sketchnote-1.jpg"
    alt="Handwritten notes on lined A5 paper, an orange colored sticky note with key words covers the top left part of the paper.">
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<p>For me, the most natural situation for making sketchnotes is while listening to a talk or presentation in a conference setting (remember those? etc.). Other than with video&rsquo;s and podcasts, you can&rsquo;t really pause or rewind the speaker and that in itself forces you to pay attention.</p>
<p>At the same time, the speed of delivery is slow enough to keep up with with drawing and writing.</p>
<p>Looking back at some of the drawings I made that could be called sketchnotes, it&rsquo;s clear I don&rsquo;t aim for a complete and linear summary of all that was presented.</p>
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    alt="Sketchnotes from the Backend of Frontend by Marc van Gend, presented at Drupaljam 2014 in the Netherlands.">
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<p>I often start with drawing elements of the actual environment: speaker, audience, details of the architecture. This way of drawing has more to do with concentration, it doesn&rsquo;t seem to interfere with listening. A more observational version of &lsquo;doodling while on a call&rsquo;. It can make for interesting contrasts between image and text.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/sketchnote-3.jpg"
    alt="Drawing of a speaker behind a podium in a baroque-ish room with a large chandelier hanging from the ceiling.">
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<p>These drawings then mix visual impressions of the real-life scene with the core ideas being discussed. In the more succesful ones that combination of elements communicates the argument being presented by the speaker.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/sketchnote-5.jpg"
    alt="Sketchnotes from a &#39;designing grid systems&#39; presentation by Mark Boulton.">
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<p>In cases where I made sketchnotes during multiple, related talks I sometimes scan the individual drawings and created a digital collage to bring the main points and observations together. The monochrome line art of the drawings and text provide a lot of room for interesting connections and overlaps.</p>
<figure><img src="/sketchnote-4.jpg"
    alt="img/A collage made from multiple scanned drawings and notes taking during a week long summer school programme on the topic of heritage collections.">
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<p>Find <a href="https://snap.as/roy/sketchnotes">these and some more sketchnotey drawings here</a>.</p>
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<p>Aan alle mensen met &ldquo;meer kunst kopen&rdquo; als goed voornemen: goed bezig! En nu volhouden hè, je kunt het!</p>
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			<title>LEGO as analogy for structured content</title>
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<p>Separate, reusable items of content that can be selected and combined into different versions/displays of a larger story/message. Instead of having to produce each version from scratch, you pick and mix from a given set of elements. Of course, Lego is an easy to understand analogy for that way of authoring a more complex piece.</p>
<p>Though the analogy is easy to understand, on closer inspection it quickly falls apart, only to become an even richer metaphor for the challenges of authering for and with re-usable content.</p>
<h2 id="analogy-meet-reality">Analogy, meet reality</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/">Brickowl.com</a> is a shop of shops selling individual lego parts. It lists 54851 different Lego parts at the time of writing. Do you have that many parts and components defined in your content repo or design system? Probably not, nor should you want or need to.</p>
<p>Many of these thousands are because of different decorations on the same type of part:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-parts/dish/decorated">170 decorated dishes</a></li>
<li>Or these <a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-parts/slope/decorated">2704 variations on a control panel</a></li>
</ul>
<p>There goes your separation of content and presentation!</p>
<h2 id="variations-on-a-theme">Variations on a theme</h2>
<p>Another multiplier is the number of ever so slight variations on a single type of brick. For example <a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-3004-93792">Lego brick 1x2</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-with-grille-2877">with grille</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-log-30136">log</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-with-embossed-bricks-98283">with embossed bricks</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-with-groove-4216">with groove</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-with-pin-2458-44865">with pin</a>, <a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-1-x-2-with-2-pins-30526-53540">with two pins</a>, etc.</li>
</ul>
<p>And that&rsquo;s not even taking into account the considerable number of different solid colors most parts come in.</p>
<p>Some variation seem to have been created for very few or even a single use-case. &ldquo;<a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-brick-2-x-4-with-no-cross-supports-with-hole">LEGO Brick 2 x 4 with No Cross Supports with Hole has been used in at least 1 LEGO sets over the past 52 years, since it was first used in 1970</a>&rdquo;.</p>
<p>Something something backwards compatible!</p>
<h2 id="humble-beginnings">Humble beginnings</h2>
<p>Another thing the inventory of parts on brickowl does illustrate quite well is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_%28author%29#Gall%27s_law">Gall&rsquo;s Law</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.&rdquo;</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The 54851 parts have evolved from humble beginnings. Within the 3773 different types of <a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-parts/brick">bricks</a>, the &ldquo;<a href="https://www.brickowl.com/catalog/lego-parts/brick/standard">standard</a>&rdquo; category consists of only 79 parts.</p>
<p>For another time: the myriad ways in which parts <em>don&rsquo;t</em> fit together or do fit but amount to weird non-standard dimensions that don&rsquo;t work with neigbouring parts. (<a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/">I know about this</a>).</p>
<p>Still working on the structured content version of bare feet stepping on a brick in the dark joke, too.</p>
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			<title>Attention as prioritization for the disclosure of potential interaction</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Deze <a href="https://twitter.com/meekaale/status/1478832981234102274/photo/1">quote</a> over wat een queeste is. De parallel met <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X01000096">Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution</a>.</p>
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<p>Dan een tweet die rept over the <a href="https://www.joelightfoot.org/post/the-liminal-web-mapping-an-emergent-subculture-of-sensemakers-meta-theorists-systems-poets">liminal web</a>. En whoei! <a href="https://www.jeremylent.com/the-web-of-meaning.html">The web of meaning</a>, <a href="https://nordicbildung.org/">Nordic Bildung</a>, <a href="https://nordicbildung.org/papers/the-bildung-rose/">The Bildung Rose</a>, <a href="https://thesideview.co/journal/what-is-metamodernism-and-why-does-it-matter/">Metamodernisme</a>, <a href="https://www.thestoa.ca/">The Stoa</a>. Heel hoog-over allemaal en very <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology#WEIRD_bias">WEIRD</a>, maar markeert in brede streken wel een domein waar ik veel van mijn interesses en vragen in herken. Ook <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/the-eloquent-type">John Vervaeke</a> komt daarin weer voorbij. &ldquo;Attention as prioritization&hellip;&rdquo; in de titel hierboven via Vervaeke in <a href="https://www.jimruttshow.com/john-vervaeke-1/">deze podcast episode</a>. Wat weer dichtbij de sense-making definitie van &ldquo;making sense of the world so that we can act in it&rdquo;.
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<p>The Calligraphic Line van <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Joachim_Burgert">Hans-Joachim Burgert</a> is een verhandeling over het vorm-karakter van de  handgeschreven tekst.</p>
<p>Hoe technisch vernuftig ook, Burgert heeft weinig op met het statische karakter van de romeinse kapitalen: te formeel, met daardoor een zeer beperkt vorm-expressie palet. Voor hem zijn juist de meer informele alledaagse cursieven die als pragmatisch alternatief ontwikkeld werden een veel oorspronkelijker spiegel van de culturele ziel van een beschaving. Enige bombast is hem zeker niet vreemd.</p>
<p>Pas wanneer in de 9e eeuw de invloed van de romeinse kapitalen voldoende afgezwakt is en de Karolingische minuskel geïntroduceerd wordt, ziet Burgert daarin de aanzet tot de ontwikkeling van een ware Europese cursief. Wat hem betreft helaas in de (relatieve) knop gebroken door de introductie van het staccato hekwerk van de gotische textura.</p>
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<p>Met de ontwikkeling van de boekdrukkunst en de bijbehorende systematisering, schematisering van lettervormen ten behoeve van losse drukletters gaat het daarna alleen maar verder bergafwaarts. De ruimte voor doorontwikkeling van expressief vorm-potentieel van letters wordt alleen maar kleiner. Ook in de twintigste eeuw is het armoe troef: “Calligraphy has lost its nerve. It stands on arid stil. It cannot bind itself to any mature tradition… The present age makes attempt after attempt, all revealing a lack of resolve. Fixed ideas are passed of as Styles. The only criterion is novelty.”</p>
<p>Maar natuurlijk toch wel een poging: “In the 20th century calligraphy made a further step, and one whose significance we have yet to realize. Calligraphy in the modern period has discoverd the <em>graphic</em> potential of the line.”</p>
<p>Een oproep met voorbeelden om in kalligrafie juist vorm in plaats van functie te benadrukken volgt.</p>
<p>Ik vraag me af of Burgert ooit blootgesteld is geweest aan graffiti. Zal voor hem technisch geen kalligrafie zijn geweest want de letter wordt eerder getekend en geschilderd dan geschreven (tagging wel), want in dat domein zijn de latijnse lettervormen de afgelopen decennia op vele manieren opnieuw uitgevonden.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.eco-thinking.org/index.php/amphora/article/download/2213/1622/7247">Hier een PDF met een bespreking van The Calligraphic Line samen met “The stroke” van Gerrit Noordzij</a>.</p>
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<li>Bríi - Sem proposito. Blending black metal with Klaus Schulze, win-win.</li>
<li>Disparaître - Urchig. Great winter atmosphere. If the last Paysage d&rsquo;Hiver was too simplistic for your taste, check this one.</li>
<li>Mastodon - Hushed and Grim. Yes too long and flawed but heartfelt and adventurous.</li>
<li>Esoctrilihum - Dy&rsquo;th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath. Unique world building continues.</li>
<li>Mānbryne - Heilsweg: O udręce ciała i tułaczce duszy.</li>
</ul>
<p>Only just found out about new Arkhtinn and Voidsphere releases, I love 20+ minute repetitive jangling riffy noise stuff.</p>
<p>Otherwise, started listening to drum and bass again through finding the very fun &lsquo;drum and bass on the bike&rsquo; on youtube. T&gt;I, Currency Audio, Hoavi, but mostly older works by Ed Rush and Dom &amp; Roland.</p>
<p>And finally, learned about Hymn of the Cherubim by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky last year. Ethereal, transcedental, beautiful.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><em>Repertoire is het geheel aan werken dat een artiest of gezelschap kan uitvoeren.</em></p>
<p>Om opgevoerd te kunnen worden moeten die werken op een bepaalde manier genoteerd staan. Ik haalde daar een vorige keer al <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/over-repertoire">de analogie recept -&gt; gerecht</a> bij aan.</p>
<p>Een bepalend gegeven daarbij is dat dit recept niet uitgedrukt wordt in het medium dat gebruikt wordt voor de uitvoering ervan. Het recept voor een muziekstuk is een partituur, dat voor een toneelstuk het script. Beiden staan genoteerd niet in een letterlijk maar in een symbolische notatiesysteem: tekst respectievelijk muziekschrift. (&ldquo;letterlijk&rdquo; hier in de zin van gelijk aan het medium van uitvoering, de partituur is zelf geen klinkend muziekstuk, etc.)</p>
<p>Die notatie van het recept in een dermate abstract symbolisch systeem laat onvermijdelijk ruimte voor interpretatie bij de uitvoering ervan. Zo kan hetzelfde toneel- of muziekstuk door de eeuwen heen telkens opnieuw geinterpreteerd en uitgevoerd worden.</p>
<p>In die zin is er voor een schilderij, poster, boek-layout geen corpus aan recepten, scripts voor hoe een werk in een bepaald genre uit te voeren. <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/repertoire-example">Die analyse</a> wordt grotendeels aan de maker zelf overgelaten zo lijkt het.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Exercising the <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/over-repertoire">repertoire</a> of  (romanesque/gothic) historiated initials in medieval manuscripts could be broken down into the studie and practice of these consituent parts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Lettering: Lomards, calligraphy</li>
<li>Ornament: typical forms of penwork and other more extensive forms of borders, embellishments etc.</li>
<li>Pattern: fills for backgrounds</li>
<li>Figure: stilized representations of human, animal, object, etc.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Repertoire: de verzameling werken (muziek, toneelstukken) die een groep of individueel artiest in staat is uit te voeren. Nog korter: repertoire is het geheel aan wat je kan.</p>
<h2 id="succesformules">Succesformules</h2>
<p>In muziek en toneel is de vorm waarin de werken worden vastgelegd niet gelijk aan de vorm waarin ze worden uitgevoerd. Partituur en script fungeren als een recept voor de uitvoering van het stuk. Met daarin voldoende ruimte voor elke kok om aan de bereiding een eigen invulling te geven.</p>
<p>Die recept &gt; gerecht karakteristiek lijkt niet van toepassing te zijn op de beeldende kunst. De Mona Lisa van Leonardo is de Mona Lisa van Leonardo, de zonnebloemen van Van Gogh zijn de zonnebloemen van Van Gogh. Het thema van deze werken valt wel te generaliseren naar &ldquo;portret&rdquo; en &ldquo;stilleven&rdquo;, maar die hebben equivalenten als &ldquo;wals&rdquo; en &ldquo;klucht&rdquo;. Een muziekstuk kan in het genre wals vallen, maar de partituur beschrijft dan nog steeds het recept voor een specifieke compositie.</p>
<p>Wat is repertoire voor de beeldende kunsten? Op welk niveau van productie speelt repertoire een rol?</p>
<h2 id="oefening">Oefening</h2>
<p>In <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai8sMDvd2Ao">deze aflevering van Studio Practice</a> een discussie waarin repertoire in de podium- en de beeldende kunsten met elkaar vergeleken worden.</p>
<p>Repertoire in de podiumkunsten: een manier om technische vaardigheden te oefenen los van de meer scheppende activiteit van het componeren van een nieuw stuk. Maar een tweede reden om te oefenen in dat wat vooraf ging is dat je je op die manier ook traint in de onderliggende structuren en principes van compositie.</p>
<p>Oftewel, de recept &gt; gerecht formule maakt dat je als muzikant of acteur telkens wanneer je het recept uitvoert:</p>
<ol>
<li>Je oefent in de benodigde techniek om de bereiding succesvol uit te voeren</li>
<li>Je de compositorische stappen doorloopt die maken dat uit de losse ingrediënten een geheel gevormd wordt</li>
</ol>
<h2 id="copy-koppie">Copy koppie</h2>
<p>Hoe bouw je als beeldmaker en -ontwerper aan je repertoire? Wat zijn vormen van bewuste oefening (deliberate practice) voor beeld-techniek en beeld-compositie? In de beeldende kunsten kwamen deze aspecten meer expliciet aan bod in de context van de meester/gezel relatie van weleer.</p>
<p>Een belangrijke voorwaarde zou zijn om het maken van kopiëen te ontdoen van diskwalificaties als jatwerk of gebrek aan originaliteit. Dat kun je voorkomen door de kopieën ook echt enkel als studies, onderzoeken te beschouwen. Voer ze uit in je schetsboek, zoom in op details of combineer juist ingrediënten uit meerdere werken. Door zo een meesterwerk na te maken oefen je niet alleen de technische aspecten maar reconstrueer je ook enigszins het creatieve denkwerk dat tot die specifieke compositie heeft geleid.</p>
<p>Die compositorische reconstructie zal altijd een gebrekkige benadering zijn van wat de oorspronkelijke maker voornemens was te doen. Alle brieven van Van Gogh met toelichting ten spijt, een partituur voor het werk zijn ze niet.</p>
<p>Desalniettemin, op zowel technisch als compositorisch niveau verrijk je zo je gereedschapskist, of zelfs: repertoire?</p>
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<p>Compared to <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/vault-snapshot-20210101">a year ago</a>:</p>
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<p>Author(s): Thomas Weil<br>
With contributions by Heinz Schütz, Manuel Will<br>
Design: Boah Kim<br>
17 × 24 cm, 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in<br>
336 pages, 386 illustrations<br>
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2021, 978-3-03778-653-6, English</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.sch%C3%A4ffel.ch/de_gruppe2.html">13 fonts</a> based on printed works from 15th to 18th century, including ones based on different versions of the Gutenberg bible</li>
<li>Plus <a href="https://www.sch%C3%A4ffel.ch/de_gruppe3.html">15 interpretations</a> and <a href="https://www.sch%C3%A4ffel.ch/de_gruppe4.html">22 inventions</a></li>
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<p>Ton Zylstra heeft de <a href="https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2021/11/terugblik-derde-nl-talige-obsidian-meet-up/">meer complete terugblik van de derde Obsidian meetup</a>, afgelopen zaterdag. Hieronder mijn insteek en proces wat verder uitgeschreven.</p>
<h2 id="bildung">Bildung</h2>
<p>Bildung is de naam van m&rsquo;n blog en van een zelf gepubliceerd zine. Bedoeld als oefening in schrijven als manier om het eigen denken aan te scherpen, concreet en deelbaar te maken. Maar Bildung is ook de overkoepelende term voor mijn professionele praktijk, voor zowel autonoom als toegepast beeldend werk</p>
<h2 id="startpunten">Startpunten</h2>
<h3 id="jarches-pkm-workshop-en-methode">Jarche&rsquo;s PKM workshop en methode</h3>
<p>Seek &gt; Sense &gt; Share is de kernachtige samenvatting van de <a href="https://jarche.com/pkm/">Personal Knowledge Mastery methode van Harold Jarche</a>. Zijn workshop met dezelfde naam is een elegante instructie in het opzetten van je eigen werkwijze voor het vinden, verwerken en toepassen van kennis.</p>
<p>Wat het mij heeft opgeleverd is precies dat: een raamwerk voor het vinden, verwerken en toepassen van kennis. Kennis in ruime zin, niet alles hoeft een baanbrekende nieuwe gedachte te zijn. Jarche laat zien dat er meerdere ook laagdrempeliger vormen zijn om waarde toe te voegen aan de informatie die je verzameld hebt.</p>
<h3 id="zettelkastenobsidian-bouwstenen">Zettelkasten/Obsidian bouwstenen</h3>
<p>Een van de uitgangspunten van Luhmann liggen ook aan het soort notities dat ik aan Obsidian toevoeg: zoveel mogelijk eigen formuleringen, eigen denkwerk, eigen opvattingen (natuurlijk altijd gebaseerd op inputs van anderen, schouders van reuzen etc.).</p>
<p>Natuurlijk zit er ook praktische notes in. How-to&rsquo;s, checklists, referentiematerialen, projectdocumentatie, etc.</p>
<p>Zie <a href="https://vimeo.com/173128404">Johannes Schmidt: Der Zettelkasten als Zweitgedächtnis Niklas Luhmanns</a> en een <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit">Engelse vertaling hier</a>.</p>
<h2 id="input">Input</h2>
<h3 id="pinboard">Pinboard</h3>
<p><a href="https://pinboard.in">Pinboard</a> is het stuwmeer van verzamelde items die raken aan  1 of meerdere topics waar ik me zelf ook mee bezig houd. Altijd loerende gevaar (of, laten we toegeven gewoon een gegeven feit) is dat het vooral een groeiende berg &ldquo;to read&rdquo; items wordt.</p>
<h3 id="morning-pages">Morning pages</h3>
<p>Een waardevolle oefening van &lt;30 minuten. De ideale versie: sta een half uur eerder op, zorg dat je in stilte kunt werken. Heb een pen en een schrijfblok. Begin te schrijven en stop niet totdat je drie kantjes (A5) vol hebt geschreven.</p>
<p>Waar is het goed voor: dumpen van crap. Je brein laten poepen. Het ruimt op in je hoofd. Na een kantje of twee van gejammer en geklaag stuit je regelmatig op een gedachte, idee of formulering die tot waardevol nieuw inzicht of begrip leidt.</p>
<p>Morning pages zijn bedacht door Julia Cameron, haar boek <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/615570.The_Artist_s_Way">The Artist&rsquo;s Way</a> is een prima handleiding en reisgids voor de verkenning van je eigen creatieve praktijk.</p>
<p>Morning pages moet je niet teveel in teruglezen. Maar er zijn momenten waarin je een inzicht, idee, of formulering een stapje verder brengt. Die zijn natuurlijk de moeite waard om uit die woordenbrij te isoleren en als losse notitie over te nemen.</p>
<h3 id="schetsboek">Schetsboek</h3>
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<p>Op de kunstacademie is dat zo&rsquo;n beetje het eerste dat je moet aanschaffen en gaan gebruiken als je dat nog niet deed. Een leeg boek om invallen, opmerkingen, meningen, schetsen, krabbels en wat al niet meer in te maken.</p>
<p>Er valt veel te zeggen over verschillen tussen denken/werken in tekst of beeld, net zoals over analoog schrijven/digitaal typen. Da&rsquo;s voor een andere keer. Voor nu: het ongestructureerde canvas van het lege vel papier biedt een vorm van vrijheid in exploratie die zich vooralsnog niet laat reproduceren op een digitaal canvas.</p>
<p>Ook hier ligt menig half gevulde moleskine of ander merk notitieboek op het schap. Maar sinds een paar jaar ga ik weer wat serieuzer om met het format schetsboek. Ik werk nu in losse katernen. Geen duur leeg boek dat je zou kunnen verpesten met je lelijke krabbels, maar zo lang mogelijk losbladige setjes dubbelgevouwen vellen A4. Eenmaal acht katernen gevuld laat ik het geheel inbinden tot een boek.</p>
<p>Morning pages en schetsboek zou je ook als output kunnen beschouwen. Ik zet het onder input omdat ik het beschouw als grondstoffen, bronmateriaal om verder te verwerken. Dat dat materiaal zelf geproduceerd is, is daar in die zin ondergeschikt aan.</p>
<h2 id="output">Output</h2>
<h3 id="obsidian">Obsidian</h3>
<p><a href="https://obsidian.md/">Obsidian</a> is de plek voor de aantekeningen in wat meer uitgekristalliseerde vorm. Zoveel mogelijk complete zinnen in een samenhangende alinea zoals <a href="https://takesmartnotes.com">Sönke Ahrens</a> ons leert.</p>
<h3 id="blog">Blog</h3>
<p>Fragmenten die ik wil delen publiceer ik op <a href="bildung.royscholten.nl/">deze blog</a>. Onderliggende tool hier is <a href="https://write.as/">write.as</a>.</p>
<h3 id="week-notes">Week notes</h3>
<p>Een manier om door die bewaarde bookmarks heen te werken is week notes schrijven. Dit format heb ik <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/tag:weeknotes">in 2020 vrij consistent aangehouden</a> als manier om een eerste verwerkingsslag op die verzamelde bookmarks te doen. Groeperen van gerelateerde bronnen is immers al een waardevolle oefening.</p>
<p>Idee was dat de weeknotes een reflectie op doorgewerkte materialen zouden zijn, met hier en daar een extra blog post waarin een bepaald onderwerp in wat meer detail doorgewerkt wordt. Dat werkte een tijdje prima, maar door er toch uiteindelijk te weinig tijd aan te besteden werden de weeknotes zelf ook steeds meer verlanglijstjes van dingen die ik had willen doornemen. Een gecureerd overzicht van to-read links, hmmm, minder aantrekkelijk.</p>
<h3 id="zines">Zines</h3>
<p>Voor mij de meest interessante en uitdagende oefening is om <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/publicaties/">selecties van mijn beeldend werk, blog posts en schetsboekpagina&rsquo;s te compileren in zines</a>.</p>
<h2 id="next-graphic-pkm">Next: Graphic PKM?</h2>
<p>Veel van deze networked thinking tools gaan uit van tekst als primair medium. Voor mij als beeldmaker en -denker: <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/maintaining-fertile-ground-for-the-work">hoe zouden deze principes en werkwijzen toegepast kunnen worden op sets afbeeldingen?</a></p>
<h3 id="een-grafische-zettelkasten">Een grafische Zettelkasten</h3>
<p>Een eerste eigen experiment hierin is een analoge Zettelkasten gevuld met A5-formaat drukwerkexperimenten. Het fungeert als documentatie van een doorlopend beeldend onderzoek in de zone tussen taal en teken.</p>
<p>Ik hanteer een <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#bookmark=id.7v3p75f10o5">naamgeving van individuele items a la Luhmann</a>. Dit neemt het probleem van &ldquo;titels&rdquo; voor dit soort werken weg en maakt dat de collectie op elk punt in het geheel uitgebreid kan worden.</p>
<p>Deze serie werken fungeert weer als input voor volgende publicatie(s).</p>
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<p>Een goed voorbeeld van hoe binnen 1 drukgang, dus op 1 zetsel meerdere kleuren gecombineerd kunnen worden. Zolang ze maar ver genoeg uit elkaar staan om zonder smetten met inkt ingerold te worden.</p>
<p>Tweede voorwaarde is dat alle elementen in dezelfde laag van drukgangen passen. Zodra het ene element onder of naast de volgende drukgang hoort (dit is ok) en een ander element eigenlijk over een nog komende drukgang te zien moet zijn dan kunnen die elementen niet gecombineerd worden, zelfs al zijn ze voor dezelfde kleur bedoeld.</p>
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<p>Vrijdag 12 november in Den Haag organiseerde Platform Werkplaatsen <strong>werkconferentie 1 + 1  = 3</strong>. Een bijeenkomst waarin het belang van de werkplaatsbeheerder in hun diverse functies en rollen belicht werd.</p>
<p>Goed om te zien dat er aandacht is voor de infrastructuur en bemensing die voorafgaat aan, en randvoorwaardelijk is voor de realisatie van individuele projecten. De specifieke resultaten van een project/kunstwerk/residentie komen immers tot stand in de context van een werkplaats, een plek waar materiaal, materieel, faciliteiten en expertise rondom een bepaald medium of techniek beschikbaar wordt gesteld.</p>
<p>Het programma bestond uit een aantal presentaties afgewisseld met een aantal bliksembezoeken aan diverse soorten werkplaatsen, ateliers, galleries in Den Haag. Goede opzet.</p>
<h2 id="de-presentaties">De presentaties</h2>
<p>Vlaams gelegenheidsduo <a href="https://www.jokeraes.org/">Joke Raes</a> en <a href="https://www.jonasvansteenkiste.com/">Jonas Vansteenkiste</a> vertelden over hoe hun beeldend werk zich ontwikkelde en vormde in de context van residenties, waaronder die in verschillende keramische werkplaatsen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mariaroosen.com/">Maria Roosen</a> toonde een korte documentaire over haar samenwerking met Tsjechische glasblazers. Ook hier was weer duidelijk te zien hoe de technische uitvoering mede bepalend is voor zowel de uiteindelijke <em>vorm</em> als <em>inhoud</em> van een werk.</p>
<p>Een werkplaats heeft impact op het eindresultaat zowel door de specifieke technische mogelijkheden die op die lokatie voorhanden zijn als door de input en begeleiding van de aanwezige vakmensen.</p>
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<p><em>Deze video werd getoond bij de tentoonstelling <a href="https://depont.nl/tentoonstellingen/archief/sigmar-polke-de-edities">Sigmar Polke - Das kann doch kein Motiv sein - De complete edities uit de collectie Kunstraum am Limes</a>, in museum De Pont, Tilburg. De drukker verteld over zijn samenwerkingen met Polke. Meer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OAaAVVeOzM">hier</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uh163a64ho">hier</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fIwRHhGg9Y">hier</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb8mQSEPxjM">hier</a>, en <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cin-BjhzZig">hier</a>.</em></p>
<p>Toch bleef vanuit dit perspectief de werkplaatsbeheerder zelf enigszins buiten beeld. Alle lof en dankbetuigingen richting vakmensen ten spijt, het podium was aan de kunstenaars.</p>
<p>Onder het &ldquo;1 + 1 = 3&rdquo; uitgangspunt van de werkconferentie leek de aanname te zijn dat kunstenaar en vakmens verschillende individuen zijn met eigen expertises die bij elkaar gebracht worden.</p>
<p>Daarom was voor mij de eerste presentatie door Johannes Leertouwer direct het hoogtepunt van de dag.</p>
<h2 id="rollenspel">Rollenspel</h2>
<p><a href="https://johannesleertouwer.nl/">Johannes Leertouwer</a> is uitvoerend musicus (violist), dirigent, onderwijzer en onderzoeker. Het was verfrissend en inspirerend om te zien hoe Leertouwer het gegeven &ldquo;1+1=3&rdquo; feitelijk omkeerde en liet zien hoe hij die verschillende expertises integreert in zijn eigen praktijk.</p>
<p>Als musicus kan hij zich niet voorstellen dat je zelf <em>niet</em> vertrouwd zou zijn met het materiaal waarmee je werkt. Techniek en expressie zijn onlosmakelijk met elkaar verbonden, de een kan niet zonder de ander en moeten in parallel ontwikkeld worden.</p>
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<li>Als violist is hij &ldquo;hands-on&rdquo; bekend met het bronmateriaal, de muziek.</li>
<li>Dat is mede bepalend waarom hij in zijn rol als dirigent zelfbenoemd klootzak mag zijn. &ldquo;Ja, het zou ook zo of zo kunnen, maar nu doen we het op mijn manier.&rdquo;</li>
<li>In zijn onderzoek werkt hij actief aan een beter begrip van de herkomst en context waarin de muziek die hij uitvoert ontstond en onderwezen werd.</li>
<li>Als onderwijzer brengt hij resultaten van zijn onderzoek direct in de praktijk.</li>
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<p>Vooral in die laatste rol als onderwijzer wil hij er vooral voor waken niet de meester te zijn die dicteert hoe een bepaald stuk uitgevoerd dient te worden. In plaats daarvan wil hij slechts <em>voorleven</em> hoe een gekozen uitgangspunt of principe gehanteerd kan worden om tot een specieke interpretatie te komen. Zo traint hij zijn studenten niet alleen in de technische aspecten maar ook in de attitude en aanpak waarmee ze uiteindelijk ook tot een eigen interpretatie kunnen komen.</p>
<p>Kunstenaar en werkplaatsbeheerder, conceptontwikkelaar en vakidioot: zie het niet als individuen maar als rollen die je in je praktijk toepast. De ene situatie vraagt om de coaching en technische ondersteuning van een werplaatsbeheerder, de andere om de meer sturende of juist onderzoekende houding van de kunstenaar.</p>
<h2 id="fazit">Fazit</h2>
<p>Andermaal: goed om te zien dat er aandacht is voor de werkplaats en werkplaatsexpert als de broodnodige infrastructuur die individuele projecten mogelijk maken. De selectie aan sprekers schetsen een breed spectrum van mogelijke interacties tussen kunstenaar en vakmens, kunst en ambacht, idee en techniek. Door uiteindelijk vooral kunstenaars aan het woord te laten bleef een belangrijk deel van de agenda van de conferentie uiteindelijk toch wat onderbelicht. Dat werd wat mij betreft meer dan goed gemaakt door de presentatie van Leertouwer en de conversatie in de wandelgangen en tijdens de werkbezoeken.</p>
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<p><a href="https://boffosocko.com/2021/08/31/55795302/">Chris Aldrich</a> points to this <a href="https://www.academia.edu/35101285/Creating_a_Commonplace_Book_CPB_">syllabus for creating a commonplace book</a>.</p>
<p>At the art academy our art history teacher made us keep a journal for notes on things seen, done, experienced and to reflect on them. Making a start with formulating an opinion, taking a position. Felt awkward at first but turned out to be a very valuable exercise.</p>
<p>Today there&rsquo;s a vibrant niche of digital note taking tools that want to help in creating connected notes. Chris again, with <a href="https://boffosocko.com/2021/07/03/differentiating-online-variations-of-the-commonplace-book-digital-gardens-wikis-zettlekasten-waste-books-florilegia-and-second-brains/">a good overview of what&rsquo;s happening in this space</a>.</p>
<p>All of which can help with getting a grip on your <a href="https://jarche.com/pkm/">personal knowledge mastery</a> (pkm).</p>
<p>What I&rsquo;m interested in is doing this with visual artefacts as source material. What does visual pkm look like? Journaling, scrapbooking, collecting and the like. The most obvious tool is the sketchbook. How does a sketchbook work?</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/atlas">Atlas by Gerhard Richter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/165120375999/dear-students-someone-just-asked-me-how-often-you">Daily diary for noticing the world around you</a> by Lynda Barry</li>
<li><a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2010/05/05/oma-book-machine-at-the-architectural-association/">OMA book machine</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.thinkingthroughdrawing.org/symposia--publications.html">Thinking through Drawing</a></li>
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<p>The Public Domain Review presenteert bloemlezingen uit de vele collecties die ontsloten worden door musea, universiteiten en dergelijke. Eerder dit jaar werd daar het boek Hamonshu voorbij (1), geheel gewijd aan verschillende manieren om water te tekenen. Van naturalistische, wild bruisende kronkels tot strak geometrisch gestileerde patronen. Drie delen met enkel en alleen variaties op het thema water. Zowel marginaal als universeel. Prachtig.</p>
<p>Zo’n 500 jaar voor aanvang van onze jaartelling wist Heraclitus het al: Panta Rhei, alles stroomt (2). Verandering is de enige constante. En ja, het stromende water van de rivier is daarbij het archetypische beeld.</p>
<p>In september, oktober en november van dit jaar is het volop “Grafiek 2019” in Nederland (3). Het overkoepelend thema: Panta Rhei. Ook Grafisch Ateler Hilversum doet mee met Grafiek 2019. We zullen dan onder andere de geheimen van het drukken met Lego onthullen.</p>
<p>Op de Boekkunstbeurs van 2018 werd ik uitgenodigd om het omslag van een editie van deze nieuwsbrief te verzorgen. Hiervoor startte ik een onderzoek naar patronen in Lego die water, stroom, stroming kunnen verbeelden. Op de voorkant twee resultaten. Op de achterkant een opsomming van de rapporten waarmee deze en andere patronen gemaakt kunnen worden.</p>
<p>Scans van de individuele elementen werden digitaal verwerkt tot een ontwerp, dat daarna weer tot analoge zetvorm werd gemaakt middels polymeer. Het papier is 225 grams Simili Japon van Van Gelder. De oplage werd gedrukt door Joop Klomp op de Heidelberg pers van Grafisch Atelier Hilversum (4). Joop was van 1955 tot 1980 drukker en chef bij drukkerij de Blauwe Werelt in Hilversum.</p>
<p>—</p>
<p>Bronnen:</p>
<p>1: Yuzan, Mori. “Hamonshu: A Japanese Book of Wave and Ripple Designs (1903).” The Public Domain Review, <a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hamonshu-a-japanese-book-of-wave-and-ripple-designs-1903/">https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hamonshu-a-japanese-book-of-wave-and-ripple-designs-1903/</a>. Smithsonian Libraries, <a href="https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/hamonshu">https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/hamonshu</a></p>
<p>2: Heraclitus. Wikipedia, 18 juni 2019, <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Alles_stroomt">https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus#Alles_stroomt</a></p>
<p>3: Stichting Grafein. Grafiek2019. 18 juni 2019, <a href="https://grafiek2019.nl/over-grafiek2019/">https://grafiek2019.nl/over-grafiek2019/</a></p>
<p>4: Een korte video van het drukproces is te vinden op <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/dwidm">https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/dwidm</a></p>
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<p>Spotted a couple Eurasian hobbies over the last couple of days. Small falcons that catch and eat insects in flight. All just on my regular walk.</p>
<p>These weeknotes are turning into lists of things I wanted to look into, instead of things actually done, read, looked into. To fix: not rely on bookmarks alone but consult daily notes from my own practice as well. Keep writing those daily notes.</p>
<p>Onward.</p>
<h2 id="concept-mapping">Concept mapping</h2>
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<p>The connection between Maps and Cynefin is Max Boisot&rsquo;s I-Space.
Says <a href="https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1397142492584325121">@swardley</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/movito/status/1397599005115305991">See also</a>. <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/knowledge-assets-9780198296072?cc=nl&amp;lang=en&amp;">Knowledge assets</a> moved to top of the reading stack. Long live <a href="https://www.boekwinkeltjes.nl/">boekwinkeltjes.nl</a>.</p>
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<p>A pithy critique of one-size-fits-all solutioning in <a href="https://www.remoteaf.co/blogs/operating-model-anti-patterns">The Usual Suspects (Operating Model anti-patterns)</a> by Adrew Blain. For example, on customer journeys:</p>
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<p>Customer Journeys are great focal point in some contexts. However, it is also entirely appropriate for some parts of your organisation to be organised around business processes, platforms, capabilities, value streams or objectives.</p>
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<h2 id="content-architecture">Content architecture</h2>
<p>So very spot on by <a href="https://twitter.com/TatianaTMac/status/1397209663456772096">@TatianaTMac</a>. Paraphrased:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>&ldquo;Content modeling for content management systems combines figuring out how to do something both resiliently and flexibly, balancing the human tendency to break rules&rdquo;.</p>
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<p><a href="https://open.nytimes.com/the-training-is-coming-from-inside-the-cms-55849d795779">The Training Is Coming From Inside the CMS</a> is an interesting look at how to surface what kind of help text and guidance was needed, and where to put it in context of the actual tool.<br>
via <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/storyneedle/status/1397895927038414849">@storyneedle</a></p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s <a href="https://twitter.com/HiredThought/status/1398448057226874880">@hiredthought</a> making sure he <a href="https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1398448057226874880.html">doesn&rsquo;t have to start from a blank page</a>.</p>
<h2 id="visual-research--printmaking">Visual research &amp; printmaking</h2>
<p>_<br>
I never got the hang of email lists, but here&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BLOCKSPLATESSTONES">a public listserv to support interdisciplinary research into matrices/printing surfaces (eg cut woodblocks, etched and engraved metal plates, litho stones)</a>.</p>
<p>_
Currently reading: <a href="https://www.routledge.com/Reading-Images-The-Grammar-of-Visual-Design/Kress-Leeuwen/p/book/9780415672573">Reading Images</a>. In our increasingly Western visual culture, visual literacy is an important skill but underrepresented in education, if at all. The authors propose an analytical framework for reading images. Quite heavy on the academic jargon and long-running sentences, but so far, worth it.</p>
<h2 id="sounds">Sounds</h2>
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Linked <a href="https://www.discogs.com/DJ-Spooky-That-Subliminal-Kid-Riddim-Warfare/release/116023">Riddim Warfare</a> by DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/synchronic-disjecta">last time</a>, and returned to it a couple times more. Holds up well.
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<a href="https://monoofjapan.bandcamp.com">Mono</a>, but still looking for their debut album Under the Pipal Tree that is not amazon or apple music.</p>
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<p>Hoe deze vorm naar het heden te brengen is de onderzoeksvraag. Het waarom is persoonlijk.</p>
<p>Ontroering voert de boventoon als ik afbeeldingen van verluchte manuscripten bekijk. En dan zijn dat nog maar reproducties.</p>
<p>Hoe figuratief een letter mag zijn. Hoe vrij de layout mag zijn.</p>
<p>Rillingen overal en een diepgevoelde overtuiging hier zelf ook mee aan het werk te moeten gaan.</p>
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<p>&ldquo;It is the business of the future to be dangerous&rdquo;</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Leadership is an obsolete legacy tech. Small groups of 20 to 100 people are the primary organisms within human society – in contrast to individuals, corporations, and nation states.</p>
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/jornbettin/status/1392504323527954441">@jornbettin</a> in response to one of those dialogic twitter threads by <a href="https://twitter.com/swardley/status/1392498868051496961">@swardley</a>. Just like hierarchy, linearity does not sit well with complex scenarios, <a href="https://twitter.com/simplybastow/status/1168531672335343616?s=20">see this thread on the problems with roadmaps as timelines</a>.</li>
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<p>The &ldquo;information explosion&rdquo; may seem like an acutely modern phenomenon, but we are not the first generation—or even the first species—to wrestle with the problem of information overload.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801475092/glut/#bookTabs=1">Glut</a></p>
<p>_
<a href="https://www.tempertemper.net/blog/styling-underlines-with-css">Styling underlines with CSS</a> was what I was looking into last week. On the internet, you can find a lot of helpful info on building the internet. Here&rsquo;s a classic deep dive on the topic of <a href="https://medium.design/crafting-link-underlines-on-medium-7c03a9274f9">designing link underlines</a>. Once again via <a href="https://scratchingthesurface.fm/post/178236082935/92-marcin-wichary">Scratching the Surface</a></p>
<p>_
Structured content bits:</p>
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<p>The metadata construct of a thing determines its ability to scale. <a href="https://twitter.com/hpdailyrant/status/1393600855874564102">@hpdailyrant</a>.
I&rsquo;m wondering if this would be specific to assigned, or pre-loaded metadata. Content can  accrue additional metadata during its lifecycle: ratings, shares, number of views, age, references. When writing, <a href="https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/the-impossibility-of-silence/#publication_13917">Ian Lynam</a> reminds us to consider the balance between timely and timeless. This seems to speak to the same point, but applied to the content itself, not its metadata.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.ellegeraghty.com/blog/2019/how-to-categorise-content">How to categorise content</a> by Elle Geraghty. Useful set of ways of analysing and grouping a bunch of content.</p>
<p><a href="https://history.princeton.edu/about/publications/information-historical-companion">Information: A historical Companion</a>, via <a href="https://twitter.com/storyneedle/status/1395151884810338305/photo/1">@storyneedle</a></p>
<p>_
Buying fonts is fun and can quickly become costly. Mixed feelings about this new hobby.  But: <a href="https://thepytefoundry.net/typefaces/triptych/">Tryptich</a> is fun, affordable and based on a cool concept.</p>
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Sounds</p>
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<li>Dj Spooky*: <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/02Ybzj5Jsb4zFmZxsLIP67">Riddim Warfare</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/36GdPil1Ue7KORtyl3EtY3">Synthetic Fury</a>,</li>
<li><a href="https://scanner.bandcamp.com/album/wave-of-light-by-wave-of-light">Scannerfunk</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/esoctrilihum-dyth-requiem-for-the-serpent-telepath-review/">New Esoctrilihum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/disparaitre-urchig-review/">Disparaitre</a></li>
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<p>#weeknotes 2021-20</p>
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<p><em>&ldquo;Mark-making is where design and writing hold hands&rdquo;</em> *</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/yvonnezlam/status/1388565170234920960">Yvonne Lam on usefulness/comprehension of making vs. reading large diagrams</a>.
The act of drawing the diagram is where the understanding happens, not while reading it back. Related to where Dave Snowden claims that any model that can&rsquo;t be quickly drawn on a napkin is not very useful. Maybe multiple smaller diagrams work better than one big one. I would think so, especially when multiple zoom levels and/or perspectives are involved. Also, the drawing process has a linear progress, starting from an empty canvas, gradually building up the model, so that understanding can follow along. A finished diagram does not tell that part of the story, especially if in the layout there is no clear and obvious way in.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ruthmalan/status/1388617273984888837?s=20">@ruthmalan</a> adds important considerations. If the value is in the doing while, it becomes essential to consider who is there when it happens. Otherwise the diagram might be just another tree in the forest that nobody heard fall over.</p>
<p>So again, it comes down to the process of drawing the diagram. Repeatedly, with different audiences as needed.</p>
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<p>Oh, <a href="https://twitter.com/incunabula/status/1389135137640747010">this beautiful little thread</a> about an even smaller little psalter (containing the Book of Psalms often with bonus tracks) from around 1280. There&rsquo;s mentions of &ldquo;puzzle&rdquo; initials with &ldquo;frogspawn&rdquo; penwork and I need to learn more about the terminology around this. <a href="https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp">This glossary</a> helps and <a href="https://twitter.com/Sonja_Drimmer/status/1390636720501231621?s=20">this</a> is a lovely explanation of <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0yOAivWEAw2gfF?format=jpg&amp;name=large">how different parts of the text on the page relate</a>, but I&rsquo;m specifically looking for the anatomy descriptors for illuminated initials.</p>
<p>Related find: <a href="https://peregrinations.kenyon.edu/about/">Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture</a></p>
<p>_</p>
<p><a href="https://www.designsystems.com/starting-a-newsletter-is-the-best-thing-you-can-do-for-your-design-system/">Starting a newsletter is the best thing you can do for your design system</a>. Newsletters as human-readable release notes plus context and <a href="https://medium.com/tap-to-dismiss/art-of-diplomacy-2ad1e2cac795">empathy</a>?</p>
<p>_</p>
<p>Reading too much about writing instead of writing but:</p>
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<li><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/writing-for-the-design-mind-9781350034976/">Writing for the design mind</a> by <a href="http://www.nataliailyin.net/about">Natalia Ilyin</a>.*</li>
<li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/firesigns">FireSigns: a semiotic theory for graphic design</a> by Steven Skaggs</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/Julian/status/1390744754065977348">This thread</a></li>
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<p>_</p>
<h2 id="sounds">Sounds:</h2>
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<li>Still in high rotation: <a href="https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/track/parallel-1">Parallel 1</a></li>
<li>Finding out about <a href="https://www.sleafordmods.com/">Sleaford Mods</a> via this <a href="https://twitter.com/sleafordmods/status/1390654821804433413">very funny video</a>. <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/3OXE4jq0gXvWEwZXSAdcCu?highlight=spotify:track:4JUtTzKDGcjBdCAbpDFxoI">Blog maggot</a>!</li>
<li>The rough and basic setup of Sleaford Mods reminded me of <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/61DzMMxxpUVXLJU2UZYJGo?si=lZKuvxSdRuOfN6Fc5AUZfQ">Heavyweighter by Sensational</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/royscholten/status/1391329532670513152">My answer</a> to that tweet asking for top 5 bands listened to in highschool. With bonus insight.</li>
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Weekendje weg in Schoorl: Tapuit, Zilvermeeuw, Kluut, Huismus, Tjiftjaf, Scholekster, Spreeuw, Gele Kwikstaart, Slobeend, Merel, Graspieper, Blauwe reiger, Groenling, Bontbekplevier, Fuut, Grutto, Meerkoet, Grote stern, Kneu, Kievit, Boerenzwaluw, Witte kwikstaart, Koolmees, Kauw, Wilde eend, Pimpelmees, Kraai, Waterhoen, Ekster, Roodborst, Torenvalk, Buizerd, Grauwe gans, Kokmeeuw, Zanglijster, Aalscholver, Nijlgans, Lepelaar, Bergeend.</p>
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&ldquo;<a href="https://twitter.com/erik_kaars/status/1384109766553726978">This 12th-century drawing is my favorite picture of a knight on horseback ever</a>.&rdquo;</p>
<p>_<br>
&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t look for &rsquo;em, but I think every composer&rsquo;s got some idea of ideal proportions that suits personal taste. You take your raw material, your notes, your visual elements or whatever it&rsquo;s gonna be, and you strike up balances between loud and soft, fast and slow, many and few, thick and thin. It&rsquo;s like cooking, or building a mobile. <em>The contrasts help define the structure</em>, and at the same time they&rsquo;re part of the elements that are being structured. Know what I mean?&rdquo;</p>
<p>From <a href="https://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/Interview_with_the_Composer">Interview with the Composer - Zappa Wiki Jawaka</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/graphic-designers-have-always-loved-minimalism-but-at-what-cost/">Graphic Designers Have Always Loved Minimalism. But At What Cost?</a> By <a href="https://jarrettfuller.com/">Jarrett Fuller</a>, yes, he from the <a href="http://www.scratchingthesurface.fm/">Scratching the Surface podcast</a>.</p>
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<a href="http://automata-app.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/">Elementary cellular automata</a>, by <a href="https://www.seth-brown.net/projects">Seth Brown</a>.</p>
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Sounds:</p>
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<li><a href="http://neojaponisme.com/2017/02/01/the-best-of-shibuya-kei-volume-one/">A new DJ mix to capture the best of a vintage Nineties Japanese dance music sound. Think of it as retromania for retromania.</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://chaosmoon.bandcamp.com/album/eschaton-m-moire-2">Eschaton Mémoire</a> by Chaos Moon is a black metal masterpiece.</li>
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<p><em>My series for 36 days of type is derived from the versal letters in
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<p>I&rsquo;m analysing the basic elements, patterns and compositions that make up the specific hand of this particular scribe. The plan is to do this for a few different manuscripts to better understand how these are constructed and build a library of ingredients and rules to eventually create my own variations.</p>
<p>I find the decorative line work that adorns these letters strangely touching. Sometimes elaborate and skillful, but just as often somewhat crude and basic. When progressing through a given codex, you can often see how the scribe&rsquo;s interest and enthousiasm tapers of. The initials in the first parts of the book tend to be more elaborate and smooth, with the linework getting more hasty and less complex further on.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/the-impossibility-of-silence/#publication_13917">The impossibility of silence</a> by <a href="http://ianlynam.com/">Ian Lynam</a>. Writing for designers, artists, and photographers. Introduces useful concepts to consider without getting prescriptive. Guidelines, not rules. Made a few things click for me. Good stuff.</p>
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Promising results of three short monoprinting sessions over the last week. See header image. First pass in black ink combining two cut-out capital letters and assorted patterns. Second pass consisted of printing a solid square of yellow ink over each page. Another even shorter single printing session together with M. produced even more exhilirating results. But that&rsquo;s all still in the exploratory phase.</p>
<p>_<br>
You all did see <a href="https://y-n10.com/">No. 10 Family office</a> right?</p>
<p>_<br>
MIT Press offers open access to <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/desi">Design Issues</a>. Via <a href="https://brilliantcrank.medium.com/mit-press-offers-open-access-to-design-issues-45aa381e78ed">brilliantcrank</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="http://majnouna.com/shop/books/">Inks and paints of the Middle East</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
Finally succumbed and purchased license to use <a href="https://www.fontsmith.com/fonts/fs-brabo">Brabo</a>, the eloquent type I mentioned <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/the-eloquent-type">here before</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
Sounds: <a href="https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/misnomer">Misnomer</a> by Four Tet. <a href="https://matthewherbert.bandcamp.com/album/i-hadnt-known-i-only-heard-so-now">I Hadn&rsquo;t Known (I Only Heard) / So Now&hellip;</a> by Matthew Herbert. <a href="https://spectrallore.bandcamp.com/album/gnosis">Gnosis</a> by Spectral Lore.</p>
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<p>Moving from Pocket to a converted, yearly paid <a href="https://pinboard.in">pinboard</a> subscription because <a href="https://twitter.com/pinboard">Maciej</a> asked nicely.</p>
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<a href="https://snap.as/roy/36daysoftype-2021">36days of type so far</a> and a compilation of <a href="https://snap.as/roy/calligraphic-space/UnBwSCHM">the first four</a>. And <a href="https://snap.as/roy/calligraphic-space/tPwesLrv">this one</a>, which just kept growing as I drew it.</p>
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Looking forward to dive into <a href="https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/the-impossibility-of-silence/#publication_13917">The Impossibility of Silence</a>.</p>
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A small update to <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/">https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/</a>, a large header image. It captures some of the essence of the Calligraphic Space theme I&rsquo;m working with.</p>
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I can&rsquo;t retrace how I found it, so I&rsquo;ll just thank the universe (or the youtube algorithm), because Tchaikovsky&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPlK5HwFxcw">Hymn of the Cherubim</a> really is of transcendent beauty.</p>
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<p><em>again: publishing as artistic practice</em></p>
<p>Another plug for <a href="https://scratchingthesurface.fm/">Scratching the surface</a>, a podcast about design criticism and practice. It&rsquo;s shaping up to an impressive catalogue of interviews about design, criticism, architecture, writing, publishing, education with people who work across those different but connected domains. I put one one for when I go for my walk.</p>
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<a href="https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/page/n83/mode/thumb">The grammar of ornament</a>, beautiful. Need to check, but I think Johanna Drucker references this in her book <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724938">Graphesis</a>.</p>
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I&rsquo;m setting up a printing forme that will fit eight A5-ish blocks into a 46x64 cm sheet of paper. I turned a first series of prints like this into small booklets, zines. Looking forward to produce a new series of works this way. This time I want to connect this with my <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/kalligrafische-ruimte-3/">Calligraphic Space</a> themed pieces.</p>
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Speaking of Calligraphic Space, <a href="https://www.36daysoftype.com/">36 days of type</a> has kicked off. Main channel is Instagram. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/royscholtengrafiek/">I&rsquo;m posting processed scans of hand-drawn versals</a> copied from <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.lat.160">this manuscript</a>.</p>
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A database of <a href="https://www.typeoff.de/database-of-sans-serifs/">sans serifs sold in 19th-century Germany</a> by Dr. Dan Reynolds.</p>
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Music via stereogum&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.stereogum.com/2122613/the-month-in-metal-march-2021/columns/the-black-market/">Black Market for March</a>, featuring Esoctrilihum <em>and</em> Mare Cognitum <em>and</em> Spectral Lore <em>and</em> Forhist (by BaN&rsquo;s Vindsval) <em>and</em> Bríi (by Kaatayra&rsquo;s Caio Lemos). Lots of good stuff coming out.</p>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
			
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<p>Een verzameling van verluchte initialen in mijn schetsboek.</p>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 11:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
			
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<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/gothicalphabets00spri/page/n5/mode/2up">Een gedigitaliseerd boek uit 1897</a>. Vooral de op architectuur geinspireerde kapitalen zijn fascinerend. Een heel directe koppeling van kalligrafie en ruimtelijkheid:</p>
<p><a href="https://archive.org/details/gothicalphabets00spri/page/n49/mode/2up">A</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/gothicalphabets00spri/page/n55/mode/2up">D</a>, <a href="https://archive.org/details/gothicalphabets00spri/page/n83/mode/2up">S</a>.</p>
<p>Via <a href="https://twitter.com/okyymstf/status/1372993635176841221">@okyymstf</a></p>
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<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%27Plum_Blossoms_and_Bamboo%27_by_Yamamoto_Baiitsu,_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art,_13178.1.jpg">Plum Blossoms and Bamboo</a>, by Yamamoto Baiitsu (1783-1856). Via<a href="https://twitter.com/JapanTraCul/status/1374616973359906818">@JapanTraCul</a></p>
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&ldquo;<a href="http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/pysanka">Pysanka is the Ukrainian art of decorating eggs</a>&rdquo;</p>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1375889719935049729">Complaining about open source projects is good</a>. Thought provoking thread by <a href="https://twitter.com/DRMacIver/status/1375030314544852992">@DRMacIver</a></p>
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&ldquo;Solvitur ambulando.&rdquo; - it is solved by walking. via <a href="https://twitter.com/cox_tom/status/1374637844468236288">@cox_tom</a></p>
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<a href="https://www.36daysoftype.com/">36 days of type</a> starts april 5.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.pagedmedia.org/drop-cap-a-smallest-history-of-the-drop-cap/">A smallest history of the drop cap</a> and <a href="https://write.as/calligraphic-space/drop-caps-css-illustration-etc">more</a>.</p>
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<a href="https://www.pagedjs.org/about/">Paged.js</a> is a free and open source JavaScript library that paginates content in the browser to create PDF output from any HTML content. This means you can design works for print (eg. books) using HTML and CSS.</p>
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A Drupal core proposal for <a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/ideas/issues/3203618">an editor specific toolbox menu</a>. 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<p>_<br>
&ldquo;I want to make sure that I’m an artist that not only lives through her music but the art is in life. The reason I can do all of these things is because they all are in the same world.&rdquo; - <a href="https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/dawn-richard-second-line-interview/">Dawn Richard</a></p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://meshgradient.com">Meshgradient.com</a></p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ree-byztoJs">Street artists: Highway star (Deep Purple cover)</a></p>
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			<title>Drop caps CSS illustration, etc.</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/drop-caps-css-illustration-etc/</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2021 14:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
			
			<guid>https://blog.royscholten.nl/drop-caps-css-illustration-etc/</guid>


			<description>
						<![CDATA[<h2 id="drop-caps">Drop caps</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/drop-caps/">https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/drop-caps/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://indiesunlimited.com/2019/08/19/drop-caps-and-quotation-marks-a-workaround/">https://indiesunlimited.com/2019/08/19/drop-caps-and-quotation-marks-a-workaround/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://massive.mpcthemes.net/drop-caps/">https://massive.mpcthemes.net/drop-caps/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/drop-caps-historical-use-and-current-best-practices/">https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/drop-caps-historical-use-and-current-best-practices/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/new-drop-caps/">https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/new-drop-caps/</a></li>
</ul>
<h2 id="historically">Historically</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-6/">http://theworldsgreatestbook.com/book-design-part-6/</a></li>
<li>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.pagedmedia.org/drop-cap-a-smallest-history-of-the-drop-cap/">https://www.pagedmedia.org/drop-cap-a-smallest-history-of-the-drop-cap/</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="css-illustration">CSS illustration</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kgx7p/painting-made-with-code-html-pure-css-browser-art-diana-smith">https://www.vice.com/en/article/9kgx7p/painting-made-with-code-html-pure-css-browser-art-diana-smith</a></li>
<li><a href="https://blog.prototypr.io/how-i-started-drawing-css-images-3fd878675c89">https://blog.prototypr.io/how-i-started-drawing-css-images-3fd878675c89</a></li>
<li><a href="https://css-art.com/">https://css-art.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://a.singlediv.com/">https://a.singlediv.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://css-tricks.com/advice-for-complex-css-illustrations/">https://css-tricks.com/advice-for-complex-css-illustrations/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="css-animation">CSS animation</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://codepen.io/rauldronca/pen/qNPPXA">rotating cube</a></li>
</ul>
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			<title>Tsundoku</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/posts/tsundoku/</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2021 23:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
			
			<guid>https://blog.royscholten.nl/posts/tsundoku/</guid>


			<description>
						<![CDATA[<figure><img src="/img/genadig.jpg"><figcaption>
      <h4>God zij genadig hem die leest - Hij vergeve hem die schreef.</h4>
    </figcaption>
</figure>

<p>_<br>
Honour your obsessions, says <a href="https://robwalker.substack.com/p/taon-no-65-honor-your-obsessions?r=9ka70&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=copy">Rob Walker in the art of noticing</a></p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://www.lullabot.com/articles/how-get-excited-about-drupal-again">How to get excited about Drupal again</a>. Addendum: collaborating with wicked smart and super nice people.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/moving-to-linux-mint">Moving to Linux</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
&ldquo;<a href="https://visionsoftheend.utk.edu/">Visions of the end</a>&rdquo;, a virtual exhibition exploring medieval &amp; Renaissance artworks inspired by the Apocalypse, or Revelation, of John of Patmos. <a href="https://twitter.com/marcoinstitute/status/1368278623048843271">Via</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://www.p98a.com/journal/revival-woodtype">Revival of an unknown woodtype</a></p>
<p>_<br>
Tsundoku: acquiring reading materials but letting them pile up in one&rsquo;s home without reading them.</p>
<p>_<br>
#weeknotes #2021-09</p>
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			<title>Moving to Linux Mint</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Mid last year I bought a second hand Lenovo T470 and installed Linux Mint on it. I wanted to see how far I could bring it to handle my main work tasks. Almost there it looks like!</p>
<p>Graphics, layouts etc: I tried these under macos before, where they are super sluggish most of the time. Under a more native(?) environment, these apps are significantly more snappy and solid:</p>
<ul>
<li>&ldquo;photoshop&rdquo;: <a href="https://glimpse-editor.org/">glimpse</a></li>
<li>&ldquo;illustrator&rdquo;: <a href="https://inkscape.org/">inkscape</a></li>
<li>&ldquo;indesign&rdquo;: <a href="https://www.scribus.net/">scribus</a></li>
</ul>
<p>For wireframes:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.diagrams.net/">draw.io / diagrams.net</a> voor lo-fi wireframes and diagrams</li>
<li>when necessary, <a href="https://www.figma.com/">figma</a> in the browser, but I don&rsquo;t often work on that level of design-fidelity anymore.</li>
</ul>
<p>Notes, writing:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/">Visual Studio Code</a> for code editing, random notes. <a href="https://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.html">BBEdit</a> is turning out the hardest to replace. such a rock solid program. As with Atom, Sublime Text, it&rsquo;s all very configurable but eh, not quite right or comfortable. Yet, I suppose.</li>
<li><a href="https://obsidian.md/">Obsidian</a> for notes, writing</li>
<li><a href="https://joplinapp.org/">Joplin</a> for tasks &amp; projects</li>
</ul>
<p>Mindmaps: <a href="https://www.xmind.net/">Xmind</a></p>
<p>Cloud things: <a href="https://nextcloud.com/">Nextcloud</a> via <a href="https://thegood.cloud/">thegood.cloud</a> in NL: file storage, calendar, notes sync for Joplin.</p>
<p>Email: <a href="https://www.thunderbird.net/">Thunderbird</a>, was already using it under macos.</p>
<p>Browser: <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Firefox</a>, my default under macos as well.</p>
<p>Local web development:
Getting a local lamp stack up and running turned out to be the most cumbersome. On Mac there is MAMPpro that provides an extensive GUI for managing PHP, MySQL, Apache. Creating virtual hosts etc. For Linux, there&rsquo;s only the much simpler <a href="https://www.apachefriends.org/index.html">XAMPP</a> for getting a LAMPP stack up and running. It comes with phpmyadmin for the database bits, which is fine, but setting up virtual hosts requires good old editing of apache config files. Bleh, but ok.</p>
<p>Annoyances:</p>
<ul>
<li>typing special characters, no idea how to do it other than copy-pasting from the Character map app. I mean, I know <a href="https://www.maketecheasier.com/quickly-type-special-characters-linux/">there are ways</a>, but all are unwieldy.</li>
<li>Save dialog: start typing, I expect to enter a file name but it appears to start a search.</li>
</ul>
<p>Better than expected:</p>
<ul>
<li>the USB-C port works great, driving my large LG monitor</li>
<li>no problems driving an external monitor through DVI and an old VGA-via-USBC adapter beamer at the same time</li>
<li>overall speed and snappyness</li>
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<p>Have yet to find the English term, but in Dutch those decorative lines flowing from initials and versals are called Cadellen. The <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boekverluchting">dutch wikipedia page on book illumination is quite good</a>.</p>
<p>See <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/modified-lynda-barry-daily-journal-format">Modified Lynda Barry daily journal format</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
Zettelkasten sightings:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://embed.kumu.io/87d29014202f47e76d5f10e2718d57ec#meta-mapping-the-trust-landscape">Borchardt&rsquo;s Zettelkasten</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.oliverburkeman.com/so/c9NUIQ7U5?languageTag=en&amp;cid=14ae83fa-471b-4e5c-b4d8-caeee20b57f7#/main">Oliver Burkeman</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I&rsquo;m testdriving <a href="https://joplinapp.org/">Joplin</a> for the more structured &ldquo;projects and tasks&rdquo; part of note taking. Can sync through Nextcloud. <a href="https://nextcloud.com/">Nextcloud</a> seems to be offered more often as a specific syncing option besides the usual dropboxes and iclouds etc.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/YellowBrickC/status/1368501616668770304">&lsquo;Framing is “a way of selecting, organising, interpreting, and making sense of a complex reality&quot;&rsquo;</a>. Pair with <a href="https://twitter.com/al94781/status/1341319003374039040">&ldquo;Software architecture is in crisis, and the way to fix it is a hefty dose of anarchy&rdquo;</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
An important checklist: <a href="https://scottberkun.com/2016/the-7-questions-for-any-technological-idea/"># The 7 Questions For Any Technological Idea</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
Can&rsquo;t get over how brilliant <a href="https://www.diagrams.net/">diagrams.net</a> is. It lets you <a href="https://www.diagrams.net/doc/faq/export-to-url">export a diagram as a URL</a>! 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#weeknotes 2021-09</p>
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			<title>Erfgoedtoekomsten, notities bij</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/2021/erfgoedtoekomsten/</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2021 23:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<p>Erfgoed: van het verleden, in het heden, voor de toekomst is het traditionele kader. Maar voor wie, wanneer en hoe in welke toekomst wordt zelden concreet gemaakt. Terwijl je door middel van erfgoedprocessen juist vorm geeft aan mogelijke toekomst(en): &ldquo;assembling, building and designing future worlds&rdquo;.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/125034">Heritage Futures, Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices</a> analyseren en beschrijven de auteurs erfgoedconservatie als een set creatieve, dialogische, meer-dan-alleen-menselijke betrekkingen tussen personen, objecten, plaatsen en praktijken. Door erfgoed vooral te beschouwen als een set aan <em>processen</em> worden de toekomst-vormende aspecten van erfgoed beter zichtbaar. De gegeneraliseerde processen zijn:</p>
<ol>
<li>Categoriseren - identificatie, naamgeving, documenteren</li>
<li>Cureren - verzamelen, selecteren, toekennen, waarderen, etc.</li>
<li>Conserveren - verzorging, conservering, opslag, archiveren, beheren</li>
<li>Communiceren - gebruiken, interpreteren, tentoonstellen, verspreiden, waarden uitdrukken</li>
</ol>
<p>Mogelijke/alternatieve toekomsten vormgeven door middel van erfgoedpraktijken is per definitie speculatief en emergent. Het creatieve potentieel van deze benadering wordt aan de hand van vier thema&rsquo;s in kaart gebracht:</p>
<ol>
<li>Diversiteit - in biologisch, cultureel en linguistisch opzicht.</li>
<li>Overvloed - &ldquo;coping with overflow&rdquo;</li>
<li>Onzekerheid - hoe kan het ongewisse van een toekomst als creatieve/innoverende factor werken?</li>
<li>Transformatie - Als proces ipv object centraal staat, (hoe) kunnen processen van vergankelijkheid onderdeel worden gemaakt van de erfgoedpraktijk?</li>
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			<title>Modified Lynda Barry daily journal format</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/2021/modified-lynda-barry-daily-journal-format/</link>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 22:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<p>Lynda Barry heeft een <a href="https://thenearsightedmonkey.tumblr.com/post/111125141634/above-variations-on-our-daily-diary-practice">snelle oefening voor dagelijkse notities over dingen gedaan, gezien, gehoord</a>. In zeven minuten twee lijstjes (gedaan, gezien), een quote (gehoord) en een snelle tekening bij een van de genoteerde items. Ik gebruik dit format regelmatig in mijn eigen schets-/dagboek.</p>
<figure><img src="/img/cadellen.jpg">
</figure>

<p>Momenteel onderzoek ik de vorm &amp; inhoud Middeleeuwse verluchte initialen (<a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/initial-before-border-red-10px-dotted">hier</a>, <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/a-strand-to-follow">hier</a>). Van daaruit is een variatie op het dagboek-format ontstaan. Inhoudelijk grotendeels hetzelfde, maar de snelle tekening is veranderd in een verluchte initiaal. De initiaal is de beginletter van de te noteren quote. De voorstelling in de initiaal hoeft vooralsnog niet te relateren aan de quote zelf, maar neemt een van de gedaan, meestal gezien items als vertrekpunt.</p>
<p>Neemt op die manier veel meer tijd in beslag natuurlijk, maar een goede manier om al doende de opbouw van de verluchte initialen te bestuderen.</p>
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			<title>Letras y Figuras</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/2021/letras-y-figuras/</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<figure><img src="/img/blauw-van-gaai.jpg">
</figure>

<p>Spring is early. A <a href="https://write.as/bildung/a-sunset-in-february">beautiful sunset yesterday</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
Settling in with Obsidian myself, but <a href="https://joplinapp.org/">Joplin</a> looks nice as well for a cross platform notes app.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://blogs.mulesoft.com/api-integration/strategy/a-visual-language-for-digital-integration/">A visual language for digital integration</a>. With pointer to <a href="https://www.ruthmalan.com/">Ruth Malan</a>, who&rsquo;s work I still need to familiarize myself with more.</p>
<p>_<br>
Sold another couple of bird prints this week. Only four left of the <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/50-vogels/pimpelmees/">Blue tit</a> and the <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/50-vogels/huismus/">House sparrow</a>. Working on a design for the Jay. I think I solved the problem of that finely striped black and blue patch on its wings.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://scottberkun.com/2013/make-a-list/">When in doubt, make a list</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letras_y_figuras">Letras y figuras</a>, another specific approach in combining letters and figures*.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/music-to-work-to">Music to work to</a>.</p>
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			<title>A sunset in February</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/2021/a-sunset-in-february/</link>
			<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 22:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
			
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    alt="Landscape photo with a large pine tree, close and to the very left. Golden light over the heath stretching to the back.">
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			<title>Music to work to</title>
			<link>https://blog.royscholten.nl/2021/music-to-work-to/</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
			
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						<![CDATA[<p>Instrumental:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZu4BCi644">Acid Pauli&rsquo;s Boiler Room set</a> on youtube is mesmerizing. More long sets to be found on his soundcloud.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.discogs.com/Daddylonglegs-Horse/release/1725935">Horse by Daddylonglegs</a>, a project by Howie B</li>
<li><a href="https://virus-recordings.bandcamp.com/album/wormhole-lp">Wormhole by Ed Rush and Optical</a> is a dark drum and bass classic</li>
<li>As is <a href="https://open.spotify.com/album/2BP1VHlDbrW5yW7JzATfdC?si=WyAvtE2XRwyYiV3bSLyaXw">Inside the Machine by Bad Company UK</a></li>
<li>The <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/51PwhCAZc8EgWUjkKjReUt?si=12bad621b39c471f">Klaus Schulze&rsquo;s Berlin School playlist on Spotify</a> has all the long spacy tracks.</li>
<li><a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6oW8CEEQjzVVC1ddFVnUUe?si=a9d7a022e35746be">Brian Eno&rsquo;s Neroli</a></li>
<li><a href="https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/parallel">Parallel by Four Tet</a></li>
</ul>
<p>With vocals (this is the extreme metal section):</p>
<ul>
<li>Ritualistic: The Thule Grimoires, Exuvia and Blood Vaults by <a href="https://theruinsofbeverast.bandcamp.com/">The Ruins of Beverast</a></li>
<li>Two hours in a winter forest: <a href="https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com/">Im Wald by Paysage d&rsquo;Hiver</a>
I almost always make it to the end of these in one go:</li>
<li><a href="https://convulsing.bandcamp.com/album/grievous">Grievous by Convulsing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eternity-of-shaog">Eternity of Shaog by Esoctrilihum</a></li>
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<p>Free online event: <a href="https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/meet-the-manuscripts-judging-a-book-by-its-cover">Meet the Manuscripts: judging a book by its cover</a>. A new life goal: to someday leaf through a medieval manuscript. Had my eye on <a href="https://www.ru.nl/radboudsummerschool/courses/2021/collecties-beweging-op-zoek-naar-de-dynamiek-van/">this course on the dynamics of heritage collections (in dutch)</a> last year, am considering to do it this year if possible.</p>
<p>_<br>
New bird print: <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/50-vogels/vink/">Chaffinch (Fringilla Coelebs)</a></p>
<p>_<br>
Sun Ra - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCalqwsicls">Space is the place</a></p>
<p>_<br>
Started reading <a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/designs-for-the-pluriverse/">Designs for the Pluriverse</a> by Arturo Escobar. Only at the introduction so far, but already some beatiful, meaningful and incisive phrases. &ldquo;All creation is collective, emergent and relational.&rdquo; &ldquo;The endless, ceaselessly changing weave of life on which all life depends.&rdquo;</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/vorm-en-inhoud-van-de-verluchte-kapitaal">Vorm en inhoud van de verluchte kapitaal</a></p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><em>form <strong>because</strong> function / function <strong>because</strong> form?</em></p>
<p>Verluchte initialen bevatten interessante vormen van tekst-beeld combinaties. Daarmee zijn het treffende voorbeelden van de onderlinge verbondenheid van vorm en inhoud.</p>
<p>In informatie-technologie, en dan vooral in digitale communicatie langs meerdere kanalen/media wordt gestreefd naar een zo strikt mogelijke scheiding van vorm en inhoud (search &ldquo;<a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?t=lm&amp;q=separation&#43;of&#43;content&#43;from&#43;presentation&amp;ia=web">separation of content from presentation</a>&rdquo;). Een zo neutraal mogelijke notatie van de inhoud maakt het mogelijk om de presentatie ervan aan te passen aan de specifieke context waarin deze plaatsvindt.</p>
<p>Dit principe maakt veel mogelijk maar lijkt ook een aantal zaken uit te sluiten. Welke scheiding tussen vorm en inhoud kun je maken in het geval van een verluchte initiaal? Waar eindigt de letter, waar begint het beeld? Welk deel van de letter is inhoud, welk deel is decoratie? Waar houdt de een op en begint de ander? Is het zinvol om in dit geval deze scheiding uberhaupt aan te willen brengen?</p>
<p>Is het niet juist interessant dat beiden tegelijkertijd het geval zijn? De ene component heeft de andere nodig om zelf als zodanig geduid te kunnen worden. De ene component bepaalt tegelijkertijd mede de indentiteit/ervaring/expressie van de andere componenten.</p>
<p>Inhoud <em>want</em> vorm, vorm <em>want</em> inhoud?</p>
<p>form follows function, or
form <em>because</em> function,
function <em>because</em> form?</p>
<p>presentation because content, content because presentation?</p>
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<figure><img src="/img/2021-winterlandschap.jpg"
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<p>It was the week of snow and cold and ice in The Netherlands. I walked instead of cycled to the studio each day. Takes a bit longer of course, but those 25 minutes are good for switching the home/work/home contexts.</p>
<p>_<br>
Finished the edition of twenty of <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/putter-european-goldfinch-carduelis-carduelis">the European goldfinch print</a>. The first two have already been sold as well. Cool, <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/50-vogels/putter/">it turned out well indeed</a>. Graphically a very interesting bird with clearly marked areas of color. Not one to start out with, but at thirty designs in, it was time to tackle this one.</p>
<p>_<br>
I sent out the first actual newsletter with printmaking updates to my small list of subscribers. In dutch, but it you&rsquo;re so inclined, <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/">you can subscribe at the bottom of the page</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/kimgoodwin/status/1360336812594499585">Kim Goodwin speaks truth about organisational knowledge management challenges</a>. Good little thread for your inner information architect.</p>
<p>_<br>
Besides illuminated intials and margin decorations and illustrations, there&rsquo;s also the numerous patterns medieval book illuminators used for filling solid areas of color/space. <a href="https://twitter.com/melibeus1/status/1359767674016923650">Here&rsquo;s another example</a>. Want to start catalogueing these in some way, or find out whether that&rsquo;s been done already.</p>
<p>_
Mister George Charles Williamson wrote this sentence in 1911 for <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Miniature">the entry on miniature painting</a> in the Encyclopedia Brittanica and it captures very well what I find so fascinating about medieval imagery: &ldquo;Landscape, such as it was, soon became quite conventional, setting the example for <em>that remarkable absence of the true representation of nature which is such a striking attribute of the miniatures of the middle ages.</em>&rdquo;</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/Nsousanis/status/1358927827098165253">What is drawing? Why do it?</a>, pairs well with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1eHm0PNnjo">why we should draw more</a>.</p>
<p>_
Sounds:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.invisibleoranges.com/backpatches-elbowpatches-1/">Backpatches and elbowpatches</a>, on metal and academia.</li>
<li>On angrymetalguy.com <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ad-nauseam-imperative-imperceptible-impulse-review/">the first perfect score of the year was awared</a> to quite the inaccessible album full of avant-garde and dissonant music. Lots of commentary there. I added <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/ad-nauseam-imperative-imperceptible-impulse-review/?commentId=f5862590-4dd7-43fc-95ee-fce7e88a50e9">my two cents here</a> and reposted <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/i-like-that-music-that-sounds">here</a>. Check out <a href="https://adnauseam-official.bandcamp.com/album/imperative-imperceptible-impulse-full-dynamic-range-dr11">Ad Nauseam - Imperative Imperceptible Impulse</a>.</li>
<li>I&rsquo;m still hooked on <a href="https://aesoprock.com/collections/music/products/aesop-rock-spirit-world-field-guide-album">spirit world field guide</a></li>
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<p>#weeknotes 2021-06</p>
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			<title>A strand to follow</title>
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    alt="An abstract square artwork. weak pink barred background with some dark green shapes over it, which have patterns and stipples in yellow and pink and wavy lines in light blue.">
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<p><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/kalligrafische-ruimte-3/">In Calligraphic Space no. 3</a> this abstract piece is one of the more interesting results to me. I&rsquo;m looking into the history of the codex, the illuminated manuscript and within that, the illuminated initial. It&rsquo;s a specific format where text, image and decoration intermingle.</p>
<p>I want to work within similar parameters for the next phase of the Calligraphic Space programme. Not only on paper, but <a href="https://royscholten.nl/pieces/versals/">on the screen as well</a>.</p>
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<p>Completed the edition of the European Goldfinch print today.
Five print runs each to create this end result.</p>
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<p><em>Illuminiation, collage, css pseudo-classes</em></p>
<p>Using <a href="https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/study-training/summer-schools/london-rare-books-school/medieval-illumination">this preliminary reading list</a> on Medieval illumination, I scoured the online inventories of second hand book stores and had a few books sent my way. And so I&rsquo;ve been reading up on the history of the book, codex, manuscript. It makes for fascinating reading and looking. Seeing the endless combinations of script, drawing and decoration unfold within the new format of the page (papyrus rolls were the standard in Antiquity) is a uniquely medieval innovation in the visual arts.</p>
<p>_<br>
A first attempt at <a href="https://royscholten.nl/pieces/versals/">styling a decorated initial with CSS</a>, based on the <a href="https://a.singlediv.com/">a.single.div</a> approach by Lynn Fisher.</p>
<p>_<br>
The <a href="https://openpressproject.com/products/open-etching-press">Open Etching Press</a> looks great.</p>
<p>_<br>
Some of the short blurbs I write that go with <a href="https://www.instagram.com/royscholtengrafiek/">my instagram posts</a> want to be expanded upon as blog posts. Just like the items I write in these here week notes. So many threads, always more to weave.</p>
<p>_<br>
Yes, that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/29/arts/design/juan-gris-cubism-collage.html?smid=tw-share">New York Times piece on collage</a> is great. The presentation format reminded me of <a href="https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters">this essay</a>, which I <a href="https://write.as/bildung/here-be-dragons">linked to before</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
Collage is one of the topics I did not get to expand upon in the <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/bildung-1/">Bildung 1 zine</a>. Collages can be funny, weird, disturbing, all of the above at the same time. It&rsquo;s definitely a way of image making that is dear to me. Funny: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cats_of_brutalism/">cats of brutalism</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdc14zKGBNjVX3JZvMkK12c6V5oM8BZiYVdF8PekSH4g7zSPw/viewform">Escobar – Designs for the Pluriverse Seminar</a>.</p>
<p>_
#weeknotes 2021-05</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><em>Calligraphy, printing things from the web &amp; digital self-care</em></p>
<figure class="right"><img src="/img/titivilus.jpg"
    alt="Bildung. Handwritten: A zine is that part of your diary that you decide to share with others ">
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<p>Much of the week involved finishing up my part of a new (art) zine exhibition @gahilversum. Keep an eye on that instagram account. As part of that I&rsquo;m experimenting with calligraphy (again). <a href="https://books.google.nl/books/about/Medieval_Calligraphy.html?id=oHNtDQAAQBAJ">Medieval Calligraphy by Marc Drogin</a> is the go to for the how to. I find a certain style of decoration fascinating, in which the versals (decorated capital letters) get these very long and thin lines extending along the margins of the text block (<a href="https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/manuscripts/uv/view.php?n=B.1.44#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=33&amp;xywh=793%2C618%2C1451%2C934">example</a>). My own initial explorations of this are in <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/kalligrafische-ruimte-3/">Calligraphic Space Ⅲ</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Medieval_wall_painting%2C_St_Michael_and_St_Mary%2C_Melbourne%2C_Derbyshire.jpg">Titivillus</a> is the <a href="https://preces-latinae.org/thesaurus/Introductio/Titivillus.html">patron demon of scribes</a>, more images <a href="https://blog.lostartpress.com/2021/01/17/my-old-nemesis-titivillus/">here</a>. Ancestor to the printers&rsquo; &ldquo;zetduiveltje&rdquo; (&ldquo;set devil&rdquo;, as in type setting) for sure.</p>
<p>_<br>
In my <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/node/118/">Bildung zine</a> I used a selection of blog posts made here. Because I remember things, that made me think back to <a href="https://noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com/design/2009/01/things-our-friends-have-written-on-the-internet-2008-is-a-publication-thats-been-dropping-through-letter-boxes-over-the-last.html">Things our friends have written on the internet</a>. Yay for people keeping up their blogs.</p>
<p>_<br>
I&rsquo;ve linked to <a href="https://switching.software/">switching.software</a> before. Here&rsquo;s <a href="https://kiramclean.com/blog/what-i-use-now-instead-of-google/">Kira McLean sharing her choices</a> in moving away from google. (<a href="https://brettterpstra.com/2021/01/13/web-excursions-for-january-13-2021/">via</a>) I&rsquo;m not using gmail, but ProtonMail looks good regardless. I&rsquo;m already happily using Nextcloud through <a href="https://thegood.cloud/">thegood.cloud</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
“naming your files and figuring out your digital organizational structure is self-care” - <a href="https://twitter.com/jongold/status/1354943210112442382">@johngold</a>. One of the replies calls for “<a href="https://twitter.com/jongold/status/1354943210112442382">more binder clip hacks</a>”. I’ve been using my own version of a <a href="http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/03/introducing-the-hipster-pda">hipster PDA</a> the last few weeks. Mostly because I promised myself to never try, let alone pay for, an online task manager ever again.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://www.printmag.com/post/the-daily-heller-marathon-typographer-lorenzo-petrantoni">This</a> makes me want to play around with the cliché&rsquo;s in our collection. (can&rsquo;t find what the English word is for the metal plates that contain engraved illustrations for letterpress, in Dutch they&rsquo;re called cliché&rsquo;s)</p>
<p>_<br>
Sounds: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jan/30/madlib-rap-right-now-should-be-like-public-enemy-but-its-just-not-there">Madlib doesn&rsquo;t have a mobile phone</a>. <a href="https://www.rappcats.com/madlib-sound-ancestors/">Sound ancestors</a> made in collaboration with the also brilliant Kieren Hebden, a.k.a. <a href="https://fourtet.bandcamp.com/">Four Tet</a>. Linked before, but now really listening a lot to <a href="https://aesoprock.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-world-field-guide">Spirit world field guide</a> by Aesop Rock.</p>
<p>_<br>
#weeknotes 2021-04</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>I’m using tome for two sites because I’m very lazy and should not be trusted with running databases and real live Drupals in production. Security updates are a hassle for this designerd so they tend not to happen soon enough. Which is less of a problem when that insecure site is only sometimes running locally on just my laptop.</p>
<p>So, yay for Tome, which lets me keep using Drupal for its powerful content modeling and clicky tools for site building. Then export to flat html and upload that as the live site.</p>
<p>Even between <em>content</em> updates months may pass. Which introduces other types of insecurites:</p>
<ol>
<li>Do I still know how to run, update, export the thing?</li>
<li>In the mean time, did I not break something in the required tooling?</li>
</ol>
<p>Point 1 is fixed by keeping notes with my own step by step how-to instructions based on <a href="https://tome.fyi/docs/getting-started/">the tome documentation</a>.</p>
<p>Point 2 though is more tricky. For as much as possible I keep using the MAMP Pro application to keep the basic LAMPP stack up and running. Sometimes that clashes with some of the commands that want to run their own webserver, but I can work around that.</p>
<p>Composer, Drush, Git, Tome itself are tools that are primarily operated through the command line. I’ve become accustomed to (I&rsquo;m not scared anymore of) using basic commands to make simple things work. But that doesn’t mean I actually <em>know</em> what’s happening. So when for example Drush throws error because database not found, I have very little knowledge on how to fix. It’s tricky business trying out possible solutions found on stackexchange and the like. I can’t always tell how applicable a proposed fix is to my specific situation and it may even further break things?</p>
<p>I guess my main worry is that running Tome and it’s underlying tools directly on my laptop potentially makes things brittle.</p>
<p>I <em>think</em> that’s where things like <a href="https://tome.fyi/docs/technical/docker/">Docker</a> come in? So that, among other things, a working version of <a href="https://docs.docker.com/get-started/#what-is-a-container-image">all the required tooling is bundled up</a> and kept somewhat immune from changes outside it’s container?</p>
<p>Yet more terminal commands to explore!</p>
<p>#drupal #tome</p>
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    alt="close up of the spines of a stack of stapled zines">
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<p><em>Publishing as artistic practice</em></p>
<p>The Design Research Society has launched their <a href="https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/">Digital Library</a>. It is an open-access hub for all things design research.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://onpublishing.page/">Graphic designers who publish</a>, compare to <a href="https://www.sternberg-press.com/product/publishing-as-artistic-practice/">publishing as artistic practice</a>.</p>
<p>_<br>
<a href="https://twitter.com/AnnieOedipus/status/1351582854862483457">Marshall McLuhan&rsquo;s copy of Finnegans wake</a>. Writing in books is ok!*</p>
<p>_<br>
Naming my abstract prints is hard. Sometimes a cool word seems to suggest a characteristic that resonates. Manifold, for example. Not exactly what I was looking for, but I remember seeing these<a href="http://dainataimina.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-photos-and-some-new-works-too.html">crocheted manifolds</a> in Helsinki some years ago.</p>
<p>_<br>
On publishing: the main job last week was wrapping up my new zines and sending those to the printer. Now to reflect on the proces and get ready to share bits and pieces. More soon.</p>
<p>I put the zines together using mostly open source tools. Scribus for page layout. For photo editing a la photoshop, there&rsquo;s GIMP, but it&rsquo;s very clunky. <a href="https://glimpse-editor.github.io/">Glimpse</a> improves on it considerably.</p>
<p>_<br>
Sounds: new for me sets from <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT1gTYObcuY">Acid</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K-G7xLWsIU">Pauli</a>.</p>
<p>#weeknotes 2020-03</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Working on my zines. A 21st century European Bauhaus? Snow fight!</p>
<figure><img src="/img/2021-optimism.jpg"
    alt="Evening sunshine through the branches of a tree">
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/Nsousanis/status/1349108004419850240">Nick Sousanics maps out a selection of books</a> as a reservoir from which to derive his own course contents. I did a similar thing last year as a way to take inventory of topics and inspirations for my own artistic production. It&rsquo;s become the main structure behind one of the zines I&rsquo;m finishing up. More on that once those are done.
_</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m using a selection of blog posts I wrote on here over the last year. It&rsquo;s super interesting to see how those small pieces of writing connect with the visual work I produced.</p>
<p>_<br>
I wrote up <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/forma-formans">a small piece about the concept of forma formans and forma formata</a>. In dutch. The forming form and the formed form and how the first produces the latter.</p>
<p>_<br>
Those zines are put together with <a href="https://www.scribus.net/">Scribus</a>, like InDesign, but free and open source. It really works quite well.</p>
<p>_<br>
Last september, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen announced a new European Bauhaus. <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2020/09/21/eu-new-european-bauhaus-ursula-von-der-leyen/">A new cultural project for Europe</a>. Unesco has a <a href="https://en.unesco.org/futuresliteracy">Futures Literacy programme</a>. Compare/contrast with <a href="http://www.liveliketheworldisdying.com/2021/01/11/were-all-preppers-now/">we&rsquo;re all preppers now</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/ruthmalan/status/845989449016205312">Optimism is work</a>*.
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<p>Een term die ik tegenkwam in Umberto Eco&rsquo;s verzamelde lezingen Op de schouders van reuzen. In het stuk &ldquo;Over enkele vormen van onvolmaaktheid in de kunst&rdquo; parafraseert Eco zijn leermeester, de filosoof Luigi Pareyson:</p>
<p><em>&ldquo;Omdat hij een hoofdstuk van zijn Esthetica wijdde aan opvullingen, dacht Pareyson blijkbaar dat structuur en opvullingen essentieel zijn voor het werk. Dat moest worden gezien als een organisch geheel waarin alles een functie heeft en in het voltooide werk (sterker nog, vanaf het eerste moment waarop het uitgangspunt het vormingsproces in gang zet) tout se tient, alles verband houdt met elkaar en wel vanuit het oogpunt van het organische ontwerp dat het werk draagt, van die &ldquo;forma formans (vormende vorm) die er in het duister aan voorafgaat en het leidt in zijn ontstaan, en dan verschijnt als resultaat en onthulling van de forma formata (gevormde vorm).&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>Cyptisch, maar het onderscheid tussen de vormende vorm en de gevormde vorm is een nuttig gegeven. In esthetica: is alleen de bloem zelf wat &ldquo;mooi&rdquo; is en de rest (steel, blad) niet? Maar ook:</p>
<h2 id="vormende-vorm-in-grafiek">Vormende vorm in grafiek</h2>
<p>In de grafiek gebeurt dit heel expliciet: de graficus komt op indirecte wijze tot de gevormde vorm. De energie en aandacht gaat in eerste instantie naar de vormende vorm van de plaat, het zetsel, de stempel (matrix in het Engels).</p>
<h2 id="vormende-vorm-als-thema">Vormende vorm als thema</h2>
<p>Daarnaast is de vormende vorm, de vormende energie, de vormende kracht een belangrijk thema in mijn werk. De onderstroom van waaruit de gevormde vorm kan ontstaan. De infrastructuur van het onderbewuste. Vooral in mijn abstracte etsen is het onderwerp en de aanpak gericht op het in beeld (in kaart?) brengen van de vormende vorm zelf, de onderstroom van het potentieel.
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<h2 id="in-de-steigers-zetten">In de steigers zetten</h2>
<p>Maar ook vormende vorm als een manier om &ldquo;in de steigers zetten&rdquo;. De wellicht onzichtbare onderdelen die (ook) nodig zijn om de gevormde vorm te kunnen tonen.</p>
<p>(In complexe vraagstukken: scaffolding around coherence towards entanglement across all levels of the system, but that&rsquo;s another post.)</p>
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<p>Spent quite some time this week sorting brass lines in type cases and books in the library of the GAH printmaking studio. Making time for the mind to do its own background processing. Quite the week, huh.</p>
<p>—<br>
Get your <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/dragons-in-myth-and-science">dragons here</a>*. I&rsquo;m partial to <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200122/BibliographicResource_1000056123367">this particular style</a> of book illustrations. The motifs in the border, the double outlines around the ears, the highlights around neck, hooves and over all stylized representation. Even more decorative motifs on <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1954-1201-1">this silver engraved panel</a>.</p>
<p>—<br>
More medieval goodies: the Vatican is digitizing its library: <a href="https://digi.vatlib.it/">https://digi.vatlib.it/</a>. Good resources for the calligraphic explorations I&rsquo;m currently working on. Started re-reading <a href="http://www.letterenfonds.nl/nl/boek/58/maerlants-wereld">Maerlants Wereld</a>.</p>
<p>—<br>
About those silver engravings, this is where the intaglio/etching technique has it&rsquo;s roots. At some point someone found out that if you rub an engraved plate like that with ink, then remove it again from the top surface, this leaves ink only in the grooves of the engraving. If you then put a piece of paper over it and press really hard, the image on the plate gets transferred to the paper.</p>
<p>—<br>
A <a href="https://www.robinrendle.com/essays/newsletters">beautiful web essay</a> on easy to create newsletters and hard to build websites. Ease of use for creation, ease of discovery for consumption and straightforward payment options are all available for email, less so for websites. “Instead, I see the web as this public good that’s been hijacked by companies trying to sell us mostly heartless junk.” But it could still be done and would still be worthwhile. I.e. here&rsquo;s a service that turns a folder with files into a blog: <a href="https://blot.im/">https://blot.im/</a>. RSS could still be the browser&rsquo;s built-in notification system for new content. Payments still need work.</p>
<p>—<br>
<a href="https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/why-everyone-should-write/">Why Everyone Should Write</a> puts it so well.</p>
<p>—<br>
<a href="https://tool-shed.org/">Tools for a livable future</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/johncutlefish/status/1346476457409695753">Ways of learning/doing</a>.</p>
<p>–<br>
#weeknotes 2021-01</p>
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<p>Started following <a href="https://twitter.com/typographica">@typographica</a> on the twitter this week. Started looking at some of the serif fonts reviewed there. <a href="https://www.fontsmith.com/fonts/fs-brabo/styles/family">Brabo</a> looks very nice. <a href="https://mbtype.com/fonts/equity/">Equity</a> has been my workhorse serif so far. Brabo would make a good addition, a bit roomier and with more flair. <a href="https://www.typemates.com/fonts/pensum-pro">Pensum</a> is nice too, but I can&rsquo;t get past that lowercase e.</p>
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Somehow really glad about the happy ending of the Queens Gambit, which we watched with the whole family.</p>
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More <a href="https://twitter.com/JANUSZCZAK/status/1345007197277855744">beautiful ink drawings of animals</a>, like that <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/setting-up-a-sandbox-to-play-in">bear</a> previously. Qi Baishi apparently thought highest of his <a href="https://www.sealsociety.org/seal-artists/qi-baishi/">seal carving</a>.</p>
<p>__<br>
Still listening to &ldquo;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ">Awakening from the meaning crisis</a>&rdquo; lectures by John Vervaeke. Periodic reminder to use <a href="https://huffduffer.com/">huffduffer</a> to turn youtube videos into your own curated podcast.</p>
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&ldquo;Writing&rdquo; was last year&rsquo;s theme. &ldquo;Image&rdquo; will be back in focus this year. So I&rsquo;ll be listening to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEIX2Miidx4">Drawing as a Human Practice: an interview with D.B. Dowd</a>. Already ordered <a href="https://spartanholiday.com/shop/stick-figures">his book</a> as well. And <a href="https://www.booksetc.co.uk/books/view/-9781909671195">this one</a> and will revisit <a href="https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/dave-gray/marks-and-meaning-version-05/ebook/product-14npey7z.html?page=1&amp;pageSize=4">this one</a>, too. Oh and: &ldquo;<a href="https://www.sequentialsjournal.net/index.html"><em>Sequentials</em> is a hub for scholarship conveyed through comics.</a>&rdquo;</p>
<p>__<br>
Almost finished the Flow book. Know thyself - &ldquo;Self knowledge is the process throug which one may organise conflicting options.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/01/05/resolutions/">If you&rsquo;re going to have new years resolutions, steal from the best</a>. Have a good one.</p>
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#weeknotes 2021-01</p>
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<p>&ndash;<br>
Putting things in their place, cleaning up and shutting down for a couple of days.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Finally allowed myself the time and attention to design and print another bird for <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/">the series</a>. After an initial design I tried out twelve small variations to arrive back at mostly what I had in the first place. More refinements during creation of the color separations. All part of the process. It&rsquo;s the <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/node/116/">European Stonechat</a>.</p>
<p>This makes 30 birds, or 600 prints, done. Only 20/400 more to go.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
“<a href="https://twitter.com/HarryIsLate/status/1340338998548545539">my girlfriend talks in her sleep. i&rsquo;ve noted them down for weeks, and turned her dreams into rupi kaur poems.</a>”</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Having fun with crappy black and white polaroid shots with T’s instax camera.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Kaatayra&rsquo;s <a href="https://kaatayra.bandcamp.com/track/mis-ria-da-sabedoria">Miséria de Sabordia</a> is a gigantic, beautiful, engrossing and touching beast of a song.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s the season of the best-of lists for this year. <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/category/lists/">Angrymetalguy.com</a> is where I go most often.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Next time will be next year! See you there.</p>
<p>#weeknotes 2020-52</p>
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<p>Published edition twelve of #weeknotes to the bildung blog today, 20 December 2020: <a href="https://write.as/bildung/tag:weeknotes">https://write.as/bildung/tag:weeknotes</a></p>
<p>It&rsquo;s a weekend activity, usually on Sundays. My own daily notes, links saved to pocket and any other posts I wrote during the week are used for input.</p>
<ul>
<li>a section on music has emerged as the standard last item</li>
<li>title of the post derived from some fragment of one of the links</li>
<li>I don&rsquo;t force myself to add context to any of the links, but will let it happen where it comes</li>
<li>The image was a photograph in the earlier editions. Switched to a drawing or print after a couple of times</li>
<li>A typographic convention emerged, using &ldquo;&ndash;&rdquo; as seperators</li>
<li>I don&rsquo;t have an actual reminder in a calendar or task list for writing these, already a habit by now?</li>
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<p>In the beginning I had already written some smaller posts during the week. The week notes were a week to recap them then. Now, with fewer posts in between, the week notes are more placeholders for potential future posts. As always, whether those will get written remains to be seen.</p>
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<p>Such a <a href="https://twitter.com/rabihalameddine/status/1340337668551405568/photo/1">beautiful drawing of a bear</a>. Look at how the foilage in the background as well. So loose and exact at the same time. Pair with <a href="https://twitter.com/A_single_bear">@A_single_bear</a>.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
&ldquo;<a href="https://colly.com/articles/this-used-to-be-our-playground">This used to be our playground</a>&rdquo;. A beatiful call for more experiment and play on personal sites.
Interesting points in the <a href="https://twitter.com/colly/status/1339296913565343755">accompanying twitter thread</a> as well.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
I actually was already doing some prep work to get blank html/css canvases in place within the <a href="https://gohugo.io/">Hugo static site generator</a> I use for royscholten.nl. The post above was a good call to action to move things along: <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/custom-css-and-raw-html-in-posts">how to allow for full/raw html and include custom CSS for a single post</a>.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Next up a first actual experiment in which we explore CSS columns to create a <a href="https://royscholten.nl/play/codex-1/">medieval looking page layout</a>, quickly running into the issue that having an image span more than one column while reflowing the text across columns in the remaining space is not yet possible. <a href="https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/3308">Pity</a>, but still good fun to work on this.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
<a href="https://randomthoughtsandideas926468149.wordpress.com/2020/12/09/generatief-leren-wat-werkt-en-voor-wie/">Generatief Leren: Wat Werkt en Voor Wie?</a> (dutch)</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
&ldquo;Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software&rdquo; at <a href="https://switching.software/">switching.software</a>, via <a href="https://twitter.com/LauraKalbag/status/1338463062165172225">Laura Kalbag</a></p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
<strong>Sounds:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zlau9X4khQ">Ad People by Melted Bodies</a> is crazy noisy good and nsfw, probably.</p>
<p>Still working through all the <a href="https://theatticmag.com/news/2404/staff-picks-_-november-%2F-december-2020.html">very interesting sounds listed here</a>: “41 albums and compilations comprising anything from psychedelic rock to free jazz, improvised music, ethnic, ambient, electronic hybrids of all sorts, both new and reissues.” Check out <a href="https://mogollar.bandcamp.com/album/anatolian-sun">Moğollar</a>, <a href="https://morphinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-sharjah">Praed Orchestra!</a> and <a href="https://lesalbumsclaus.bandcamp.com/album/simorgh">João Lobo</a>.</p>
<p>Also, <a href="https://crosstownrebels.bandcamp.com/album/the-edge-of-everything">Krust – The Edge of everything</a>. “…his love for ultra-extended intros and long silences is <a href="https://www.residentadvisor.net/reviews/25335">firmly intact</a>.”</p>
<p>&ndash;
#weeknotes 2020-51</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Great article on the web as personal design playground: <a href="https://colly.com/articles/this-used-to-be-our-playground">https://colly.com/articles/this-used-to-be-our-playground</a></p>
<p>One slow moving project of mine is about posting some longer-form, art-directed posts to royscholten.nl, starting with 3 &ldquo;dossier&rdquo; pages for each of the main areas currently listed there.</p>
<p>Two technical pieces I had to get in place to be able to do that:</p>
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<li>Load custom css for a specific post.</li>
<li>Allow plain html in the body of a post</li>
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<h2 id="load-custom-css-for-a-specific-post">Load custom css for a specific post</h2>
<p>For this I had to connect some dots across multiple pedantic comments on stackoverflow. The apparently more common usecase is to automatically include a css file that is specific to a certain <em>type</em> of post. I want to include a css file with a <em>single</em> post.</p>
<p>I did not bookmark or document where I found this. I think I remember making Hugo choke on not correctly commenting the url I did want to add as documentation, so I left it out.</p>
<p>Anyway, in the front matter of that specific post you create a customcss parameter that has the URL to the CSS file you want to include:</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>customcss: &#34;/css/specific-styles-for-just-that-post.css&#34;
</code></pre><p>And in /layouts/partials/head/extra.html add this line:</p>
<pre tabindex="0"><code>{{ with .Params.customcss }}&lt;link rel=&#34;stylesheet&#34; href=&#34;{{ . }}&#34; /&gt;{{ end }}
</code></pre><p>This takes care of adding the link to the stylesheet to the generated HTML of that specific post.</p>
<h2 id="allow-plain-html-in-the-body-of-a-post">Allow plain html in the body of a post</h2>
<p>Much easier. <a href="https://anaulin.org/blog/hugo-raw-html-shortcode/">Thank you Ana Ulin for explaining and documenting how to do that</a>.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>via <a href="https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1338601760714354689">https://twitter.com/eaton/status/1338601760714354689</a>,
eaton points us to
<a href="https://jjosephmiller.medium.com/the-rhetoric-of-content-types-c9e6994d2b01">https://jjosephmiller.medium.com/the-rhetoric-of-content-types-c9e6994d2b01</a></p>
<p>“Separating collections of attributes from rhetorical function is every bit as important.”</p>
<p>Reminds me of something eaton mentioned earlier: for a given site/platform/service, there&rsquo;s not one content model, but multiple in parallel.</p>
<h2 id="content-model-for-storage">Content model for storage</h2>
<p>At the very least there&rsquo;s the model on the level of the database: the technical content model and the finer grained data model behind that. This content model is mostly concerned with how the content is stored</p>
<h2 id="content-model-for-communication">Content model for communication</h2>
<p>On top of that the content model for a specific channel, let&rsquo;s say, &ldquo;the site&rdquo;. The content type building blocks in the database model by themselves are not flexible, rich enough to compose the necessary screens with. The content model of the site is often more expressed throug it&rsquo;s design system, with page/layout types like &ldquo;landing page&rdquo;, &ldquo;list page&rdquo;, &ldquo;item page&rdquo;, &ldquo;sub home&rdquo; and the like.</p>
<p>These are all composit pages. Even the single item page is not built from the content item alone. Header, footer of course, but also additional navigation, and &ldquo;related content&rdquo; bits and bobs get added to the core content provided by the content type.</p>
<p>One difference between item page and the other composits is that on the single item screen, all the additional items are &ldquo;pulled in&rdquo; to the content item. The foundation of the page is indeed the item itself. (the URL of the page is the URL of the content item)</p>
<p>For the other composit pages like a typical landing page it helps to think of those as an empty canvas (header, footer will likely still be on there, I&rsquo;m talking about the space between those two). For these empty canvasses, there is no one specific content item that is the boss of the page that provides base content and context. Content: there&rsquo;s no single item that defines the basic set of available items to show. Context: there&rsquo;s no main metadata to derive the additional &ldquo;related&rdquo; items from.</p>
<p>So given the building blocks as defined in the database content model, we run into the need to repackage the content in a content type into smaller subsets of related fields. (Drupal: view modes)</p>
<p>We need canvasses and flexible content chunks that can be added to those.</p>
<h2 id="content-design-system">Content, design, system</h2>
<p>The above still approaches the Communication Content Model from a display/design angle. Expressed in terms derived from design system language. But the communicative function of this &ldquo;title+body+image+link&rdquo; content component is not necessarily the same as the communication job of this other &ldquo;title+body+image+link&rdquo; content component. They may have an identical structure in constituting parts, but what they communicate and how may be very different.</p>
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<p>Congrats to <a href="http://www.sueborchardt.com/">Sue Borchardt</a> for becoming the <a href="https://www.cognitive-edge.com/the-first-cynefin-artist-in-residence/">first cynefin artist in residence</a>. She asks this question which I think is an important one:</p>
<p><em>&ldquo;If a space for creative experimentation existed right now in your workplace, how might today be different for you?&rdquo;</em></p>
<p>This hits exactly on the reason we started <a href="https://tacit.studio">tacit.studio</a>.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
I&rsquo;ve been reposting the work-so-far of my <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/">50 birds project</a> to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/royscholtengrafiek/">my instagram account</a>. Scheduling with Hootsuite works well. I just lined up the last ones for this week. Hope to finish at least one more this year to hit 30 completed prints, each in an edition of 20, so that&rsquo;s 600 prints done. Only 400 left to go!</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
On <a href="https://twitter.com/_angelos/status/977176859699023873">why hand drawn diagrams</a>, as part of <a href="https://twitter.com/ruthmalan/status/991332501825171456">this thread</a>. There will even be a conference on the <a href="http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2021/">Theory and Application of Diagrams</a> in 2021*.</p>
<p>I miss working and thinking and drawing through things with my team on my big whiteboard.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Austin Kleon has a good post on <a href="https://austinkleon.com/2020/12/07/morning-pages-and-variations/">(variations on) morning pages</a>. Earlier this year I stopped a 100+ days streak of writing three pages long hand each morning. Going to get back to that.</p>
<p><em>&quot;<a href="https://www.oliverburkeman.com/so/acNOetBUR?cid=c76fc394-9db3-408c-b858-07bfacad401e#/main">Morning Pages is another tactic for getting out of your own way</a>&quot;</em></p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
I write my morning pages with Eno&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="https://brianenoallsaints.bandcamp.com/track/neroli">Neroli</a>&rdquo; on. Another ambient-ish album that got back into rotation is <a href="https://queeste.bandcamp.com/album/wandelaar">Wandelaar by Haron</a></p>
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#weeknotes 2020-50</p>
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<p>Built and curated an exhibition with my partner in art <a href="https://www.instagram.com/martijn_van_der_blom/">Martijn van der Blom</a>. It&rsquo;s called SET::SOLID. I&rsquo;m showing a selection of twelve of my <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/">bird prints</a>, Martijn presents twelve unique prints from his Masks series.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
<a href="https://spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/hanne-darboven-ruth-wolf-rehfeldt-zeichen-der-zeit-zeit-der-zeichen-sign-of-the-times-times-of-the-sign-hanne-darboven-and-ruth-wolf-rehfeldt-london/">Hanna Darboven &amp; Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt</a>. Great picture of Darbovens&rsquo; desk in there. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt created typewriter art in the 1970&rsquo;s in East Germany which was <a href="https://www.documenta14.de/en/artists/13569/ruth-wolf-rehfeldt">sent out as mail art</a>. The mail art she received offered glimpes of the world on the other side of the iron curtain.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Still working through this excellent piece: <a href="https://lisa-angela-fftv.medium.com/undoing-the-toxic-dogmatism-of-digital-design-4bda8c4a4eba">Undoing the Toxic Dogmatism of Digital Design</a> by Lisa Angela. It already reminded me of a <a href="https://www.hmntycntrd.com/">community</a> and a <a href="https://houseofanansi.com/products/the-conscious-creative">book</a> to check out.</p>
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Some updates to <a href="https://royscholten.nl/">https://royscholten.nl/</a>, it has small pictures now!</p>
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Preparing work on the zines I&rsquo;ll contribute to a group expo in February 2021. I already made <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/im-herma-steur/">one in remembrance of Herma Steur</a> earlier this year.</p>
<p>&ndash;<br>
Sounds: my spotify year in review is basically the <a href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2hDWv6SYw74UoFUZC871Kn?si=IcuNjw7-QoSfeLTR7Li12w">playlist I made for spinning</a> with some added <a href="https://i-voidhangerrecords.bandcamp.com/album/eternity-of-shaog">Esoctrilihum</a>, <a href="https://marecognitum.bandcamp.com/album/wanderers-astrology-of-the-nine">Mare Cognitum/Spectral Lore</a> and <a href="https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com/album/im-wald">Paysage d&rsquo;Hiver</a> from before I bought those on bandcamp.</p>
<p>#weeknotes 2020-49</p>
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<p>Nu te zien in de Gooische Brink 35 Hilversum. Lego-prints van Martijn van der Blom en Roy Scholten.</p>
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<p>Facilitated working through a complex site building question. A webcam pointing at some <a href="https://write.as/bildung/drawing-and-directing-attention">handdrawn diagrams</a> was super useful in keeping the discussion on track.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve been collecting links on <a href="https://www.bmc.com/blogs/wardley-value-chain-mapping/">Wardley Mapping</a> for some time now, still need to dedicate time to figure out how/where this applies to the visualizing, mapping things I already do.</p>
<p>For example, modeling content. I wrote up <a href="https://write.as/bildung/simulating-a-content-model-in-obsidian">how to build a content model in Obsidian</a>.</p>
<p>Found out that the <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/50-vogels/tafeleend/">Common Pochard</a>* had been missing from the collection all this time! Fixed that.</p>
<p>Preparations for an exhibition in the center of town together with Martijn. More on that soon.</p>
<p><em>Sounds:</em> saw a tweet that asked for goose bump recommendations. Didn&rsquo;t reply there, but:</p>
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<li>Blood on the Motorway by DJ Shadow</li>
<li>Ashtray Wasp by Burial</li>
<li>Encore from Tokyo by Keith Jarrett</li>
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<p>#weeknotes 2020-48</p>
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<p>Facilitating a discussion on a complex subject through hand drawn diagrams and a webcam hovering above. The drawings were essential in keeping the discussion productive and on track.</p>
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<p>Please be sure to check out <a href="https://twitter.com/Calthalas/status/1329343438916100096">this beautiful schematic map from the 12th century</a>. That tweet also has the link to the full scan of the book it is in. Oh my, such <a href="http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100059469793.0x000001#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=78&amp;xywh=-1799%2C0%2C8676%2C6260">great</a> <a href="http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100059469793.0x000001#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=89&amp;xywh=-1802%2C0%2C8795%2C6346">looking</a> <a href="http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100059469793.0x000001#?c=0&amp;m=0&amp;s=0&amp;cv=164&amp;xywh=-1790%2C0%2C8679%2C6262">pages</a>.</p>
<p>“If you cut an animal skin into 4 sets of two pages, the number of possible ways of arranging these 4 pieces into a booklet is 6,144.” via <a href="https://twitter.com/LitteraCarolina/status/1329027902600605699">@LitteraCarolina</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.drupal.org/u/yoroy">My account on drupal.org</a> turned 15 years old this week. Quite the ride. Drupal is a large open source content management system. I help design it. More on that <a href="https://yoroy.com/tag/drupal/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Emily Webber on <a href="https://emilywebber.co.uk/networks-serendipity-and-the-flow-of-ideas/">serendipity in the workplace</a>.</p>
<p>Dinosaurs. <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/dino-cards/">10 dino cards</a> in legopress added to the print portfolio. It&rsquo;s a collaboration with Martijn from 2017. The little arms of <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/werk/dino-cards/tyrannosaurus-rex/">the T-rex</a> were a design challenge, <a href="https://twitter.com/wareslab/status/1329881447281414146">but no more</a>. Also, <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/11/20/first-complete-t-rex-skeleton-found-locked-in-battle-with-triceratops-13625874/">T-rex vs. Triceratops</a>.</p>
<p>The dino cards were a precursor to the <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/">50 birds project</a> that&rsquo;s still underway. Here&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hsOoO1-jE">a short video browsing through all the trial and error prints</a> that lead up to the final design. I wrote a short article on this project, in dutch, <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/over-50-vogels/">here</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/CoolComicArt/status/1330057400859111429">Bill Sienkiewicz</a>, always <a href="https://www.kungfugrippe.com/search/sienkiewicz">Bill Sienkiewicz</a>.</p>
<p>New sounds. More noise for <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/free-fall-through-space">tumbling through space</a> via <a href="https://pravakollektiv.bandcamp.com/artists">Prava Kollektiv</a>: <a href="https://arkhtinn.bandcamp.com/album/astrophobia">Arkhtinn</a>, <a href="https://hwwauoch.bandcamp.com/album/protest-against-sanity">HWAUOCH</a>, and personal favorite <a href="https://voidsphere.bandcamp.com/album/to-sense-to-perceive">Voidsphere</a>*.</p>
<p>#weeknotes 2020-47</p>
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<p>Going to have a look at <a href="https://appearworks.vipmembervault.com/products/courses/view/1054974">this intro to Sketch Your System</a></p>
<p>I found out too late about this <a href="https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/making-medieval-ink/">workshop on making medieval ink</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Making&#43;ink&#43;from&#43;crushed&#43;oak&#43;galls">Youtube has the goods, of course</a>.</p>
<p>Small indieweb tweaks to <a href="https://www.royscholten.nl">www.royscholten.nl</a>, just <a href="http://microformats.org/wiki/h-card">h-card</a> stuff for now. On yoroy.com I even had <a href="https://indieweb.org/Webmention">webmentions</a> and some syndication going for a short while, but it&rsquo;s all very fiddly still. Also, I <a href="https://write.as/bildung/socket-tome-drush-composer">turned yoroy.com into a static html site</a> (in dutch) so that removed those types of features.</p>
<p>Het <em>goede</em> en <em>gewenste</em> van structured content is ook dat sommige dingen daardoor juist <em>niet</em> meer mogelijk zijn! <a href="https://write.as/bildung/onmogelijk">https://write.as/bildung/onmogelijk</a></p>
<p>More Luhmann* Zettelkasten geekery. Here&rsquo;s a talk by one of the researchers that are working to digitize this analog knowledge database: <a href="https://vimeo.com/173128404">https://vimeo.com/173128404</a>. The presentation is German spoken, so I created <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#heading=h.ygj23kjvy5z">a rough but mostly complete translation</a></p>
<p>Coming May next year: <a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-filing-cabinet">The filing cabinet, a vertical history of information</a>. “The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information.”</p>
<p>Sounds: new <a href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/aesop-rock-spirit-world-field-guide/">Aesop Rock</a> (the rapper with the <a href="https://pudding.cool/2017/02/vocabulary/index.html">largest vocabulary</a>), <a href="https://www.angrymetalguy.com/black-curse-endless-wound-review/">Black Curse – Endless Wound</a> and <a href="https://convulsing.bandcamp.com/album/grievous">Convulsing – Grievous</a>. The last one oddly helped achieve some actual flow during work this week.</p>
<p>#weeknotes 2020-46</p>
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<p>One example that is often referred to is Niklas Luhmann&rsquo;s Zettelkasten. This German sociologist published some 50 books and 600 essays between the 50&rsquo;s and 90&rsquo;s of the 20th century. This intellectual productivity was in large part made possible through the 90.000 small paper notes of his thinking that he wrote, stored and linked in his so-called Zettelkasten (slip box).</p>
<p>Here&rsquo;s <a href="https://vimeo.com/173128404">a video of a presentation by one of the researchers working to digitize this analog knowledge database</a>. It&rsquo;s a good introduction, und also, the presentation is German spoken, so I created this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#heading=h.ygj23kjvy5z">rough but mostly complete translation</a></p>
<p>Luhmann worked this way to ensure that he would encounter many different perspectives when considering a certain topic or problem. At a certain volume of notes, the Zettelkasten became a generator of surprises, unexpected analogies, connections and perspectives, even for the very person who wrote all of them in the first place.</p>
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<p>For me, when making art, the free exploration of ideas, forms and images is my way of trying to surprise myself. Especially with printmaking, what you put in is different from what you get out.</p>
<p>Surprising yourself in such a way can be a truly joyful experience. It&rsquo;s worth pursuing.</p>
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<p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/cms_ui">CMS_ui</a> project dedicated some posts of the Drupal views module user interface from <a href="http://cmsui.org/post/drupal-query-builder-2006">2006</a>, <a href="http://cmsui.org/post/drupal-query-builder-2008">2008</a> and <a href="http://cmsui.org/post/drupal-query-builder-2011">2011</a>.</p>
<p>I was heavily involved in these efforts (<a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/8429">1</a>, <a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/8429">2</a> ), it was one of my first substantial contributions to the project as a designer. Still proud of this <a href="https://yoroy.com/pieces/views-2-module-concept-model/">concept model</a>.</p>
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<p>Gestructureerde content maakt het makkelijker om daar waar dat gepast is (opsommingen, gerelateerd, inserts) zaken op basis van regels en filters te tonen. Business rules?</p>
<p>Daar alsnog een directe redactionele ingreep op mogelijk maken via een grafische gebruikers-interface gaat daar dan recht tegenin. &ldquo;Soms&rdquo; is een special case van &ldquo;altijd&rdquo;, dus die telt niet om de vraag kleiner te maken.</p>
<p>De management tools zijn in die gevallen eerder indirect: tweak de business rules, pas je taxonomie aan, stel de regels voor filtering bij.</p>
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<p>Sinds afgelopen zomer een nieuwe start met schets/log/dag-boeken. In eerste instantie als losbladige katernen aangemaakt. Vier dubbelgevouwen A4 maakt 16 pagina&rsquo;s A5. Produceer 8 katernen en je hebt 128 pagina&rsquo;s voor een boek.</p>
<p>De eerste twee exemplaren die op deze manier tot stand zijn gekomen heb ik doorgenomen op thema&rsquo;s en kandidaat vervolgonderzoeken</p>
<h2 id="mogelijke-vervolgonderzoeken">mogelijke vervolgonderzoeken</h2>
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<li>een gotische letter (kapitalen) in Lego. Dik-dun verlopen door twee drukgangen met off-sets. Eventueel ook uitzoeken wat er kan als de bodemplaat onder 45 graden gezet wordt.</li>
<li>Het comics karakter Jacob van M. in nog sterker middeleeuwse stilering doorontwikkelen door middel van verdere Barry/Brunotti oefeningen</li>
<li>Kalligrafische Ruimte 3: in het 2e journal staan abstract kalligrafische monoprints die met kleurpotlood zijn aangevuld en/of met posca stiften omlijst en gedecoreerd. Daar op door, op groter formaat, in individuele pieces?</li>
<li>De oost-indische inkt oefeningen waarin een vlek in een tekening wordt omgewerkt zijn interessant want zowel wit op zwarte als zwart op witte lijnvoering worden gecomgineerd. Gerelateerd aan 2 hierboven, want ook in deze oefeningen heb ik dezelfde stilering voor gezichten, uitdrukkingen toegepast. Combineren met monoprint achtergronden, omgevingen?</li>
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<h2 id="eerste-conclusies">Eerste conclusies</h2>
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<li>gotische letter in lego is teveel gelijk aan de nog lopende <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/50-vogels/">50 Vogels project</a> oefening, dus dat nog even niet.</li>
<li><a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/kalligrafische-ruimte/">Kalligrafische ruimte</a> naar groter formaat en kleur introduceren</li>
<li>Journal oefeningen verder doen als <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/tag:makingcomics">comics oefeningen</a>. Doorgaan met Barry en Brunotti dus.</li>
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<p>#creativejournal #review #2020</p>
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<p>I was typing out a root-relative link in some Wordpress site this week, and remembered learning about them in &ldquo;<a href="https://www.zeldman.com/2009/04/16/taking-your-talent-to-the-web-is-now-a-free-downloadable-book-from-zeldmancom/">taking your talent to the web</a>&rdquo;. That was an influential book, it really explained the basics of this new web design thing so well. Another tidbit that came back: gifs stay crunchy in milk, jpegs do not.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/cms_ui">CMS_ui</a> project dedicated some posts of the Drupal views module user interface from <a href="http://cmsui.org/post/drupal-query-builder-2006">2006</a>, <a href="http://cmsui.org/post/drupal-query-builder-2008">2008</a> and <a href="http://cmsui.org/post/drupal-query-builder-2011">2011</a>. I was heavily involved in that (<a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/8429">1</a>, <a href="https://groups.drupal.org/node/8429">2</a> ), it was one of my first substantial contributions to the project as a designer. Still proud of this <a href="https://yoroy.com/pieces/views-2-module-concept-model/">concept model</a>.</p>
<p>Happy to see <a href="https://hermasteur.nl/">Herma&rsquo;s work</a> is part of <a href="https://www.kunstliefde.nl/tentoonstellingen/1579007587">this exhibition of artists&rsquo; books</a></p>
<p>Oh look, <a href="https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/illuminated-initials">illuminated initials</a>. Reviewing my two most recent journals, the abstract calligraphic initial and the medieval ways of stylized drawing are recurring themes. I think I&rsquo;ll explore next steps in both. As a refresher, I have started works from the second <a href="https://grafiek.royscholten.nl/project/kalligrafische-ruimte-2/">Calligraphic Space</a> series to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/royscholtengrafiek/">my instagram</a>.</p>
<p>If you like your noise experimental and underground, then know that <a href="https://momentumlessidentity.bigcartel.com/">momentumless identity is having a sale</a>.</p>
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<p>Soft-launching the <a href="http://tacit.studio/">tacit.studio website</a>, in dutch.</p>
<p>An important part of my work as an information architect is modeling content into content types. Defining these building blocks begs the question: <a href="https://write.as/bildung/when-is-a-content-type">When is a content type?</a></p>
<p>I wrote the response above as a post to my <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/">other blog</a>. Is this <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/instant-publishing">instant publishing</a>?</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ">awakening from the meaning crisis</a> lectures describe a looooong historic arc of how humans have sought to find meaning.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/designing-in-dark-times-9781350070257/">Designing in Dark Times </a> looks interesting. Like <a href="https://twitter.com/camerontw/status/1321564945213874176">this</a>, not like <a href="https://www.ideo.com/journal/capitalism-needs-a-redesign-but-where-do-we-start">this</a>.</p>
<p>This twitter thread is <a href="https://twitter.com/meekaale/status/1322401389595791361">a beautiful mini essay on geometry, beauty and mindmaps</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://fitzsimple.medium.com/">Ella Fitzsimmons</a> has started writing weeknotes as well. Hers are much better.</p>
<p>Music: adventerous, global &amp; longform live dj&rsquo;ing with Acid Pauli:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/acidpauli/colors-below-the-ear">https://soundcloud.com/acidpauli/colors-below-the-ear</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZu4BCi644">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZu4BCi644</a></li>
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<p><a href="https://twitter.com/storyneedle/status/1321542078480945163">https://twitter.com/storyneedle/status/1321542078480945163</a></p>
<p>I said &ldquo;write.as is quite nice&rdquo;, but that&rsquo;s only part of what happened here.</p>
<p>What made this instant publishing possible is that the source material for this post was already there as a note in my notes collection. I&rsquo;m not comfortable with that type of coherent twitter thread that consists of one well worded full sentence per tweet. Which at the same time is the kind of tweetage that I find some of the most valuable.</p>
<p>I think too slowly, write even slower to respond in kind to this type of discussion. I don&rsquo;t want to &ldquo;be on Twitter&rdquo; while trying to think/write my perspective.</p>
<p>(Also, these used to be blog posts and I still think it&rsquo;s worth the effort to share this kind of thinking under your own URL instead of under the platform ones.)</p>
<p>What happened here is I already had some thoughts on this topic in a note. The initial tweet reminded me I had been thinking about that topic. I found that note, added and rewrote a bit and posted it to my blog. Even after posting I updated the post to add the two examples at the bottom.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m currently using Obsidian.md to do this soilwork of taking notes, writing down thoughts and linking them. Basic ingredients are local markdown text files. Write.as is a very light-weight publishing tool that also works well with markdown. Both Obsidian and Write.as follow the #hashtag convention for tagging things. The &ldquo;share to twitter&rdquo; feature in Write.as managed to send those along as part of the tweet I see. Nice.</p>
<p>This whole digital garden, second brain, personal knowledge management is a bit of a topic currently, but this post is meta enough as it is. A bit more on that is in <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/personal-knowledge-management-through-the-centuries">personal knowledge management through the centuries</a></p>
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<p>The most obvious reason to create separate content types is because different content structure, different fields.</p>
<p>Other reasons to define a separate content type can go beyond differences in the needed field structure:</p>
<ul>
<li>Different editorial workflows.</li>
<li>Governance: difference in content life cycles.</li>
<li>A simple(?) way to segment who can access what</li>
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<p>Yes, there are other tools available to achieve the above (i.e. taxonomy, roles, groups in Drupal parlance), but at a certain point, the maintenace and complexity cost of DRY (don&rsquo;t repeat yourself) can become too high.</p>
<p>The <em>definition of the function</em> of a content type is a wider consideration than its functional-structural definition on field level alone.</p>
<p>(I suspect there&rsquo;s an analogy to be made here with object oriented code. Not all giraffes, kangaroos, wolves, mice, cows, lemurs should be instances of the same mammal class?)</p>
<p>An example of &ldquo;all in one&rdquo;: in one case we pushed really hard on gathering wildly variable service-related content into a single content type for:</p>
<ul>
<li>future extensibility. Much of the service was info at first. Actual handling of service requests (order this, request that, subscribe to) will be added over time and can be made available across the whole set.</li>
<li>governance: tighter control of who can create these items to reduce the chance of duplication, which was a problem</li>
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<p>At the same time we created different versions of a training because even if most fields were shared, which ones were required varied greatly. No meaningful (predictable) shared set of what we could assume to be available. Hard to create view modes for that.</p>
<p>#contentmodeling #drupal</p>
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<li>Started reading <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/flow-mihaly-csikszentmihalyi?variant=32118048686114">Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience</a> by Czikszentmihalyi. Very readable and accessible so far.</li>
<li>Ton Zijlstra on his first <a href="https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/10/100-days-in-obsidian-pt-1/">100 days with obsidian, pt. 1</a></li>
<li>Treasure trove: <a href="https://nesslabs.com/best">nesslabs.com</a></li>
<li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/designmatters/design-matters-with-debbie-millman-lynda-barry">Lynda Barry podcast!</a></li>
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<p>2020-43</p>
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<p>Reaction videos, a whole genre on its own. Regarding music ones:</p>
<p>There&rsquo;s the non experts that try to come up with their own vocabulary to express how they feel about what they hear:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG1UElhMH2k&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;t=327">Metallica/Orion</a> – Touching, beautiful</li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/sh8wxc4tctE">Megadeth/Holy Wars… The punishment due</a> – Madness!</li>
<li><a href="https://youtu.be/PvXyLXR7MSE?t=251">System of a Down/Aerials</a> – grand and glorious!</li>
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<p>And there&rsquo;s the experts that confront themselves with collegues, but in a different genre that their own:</p>
<ul>
<li>Drums: <a href="https://youtu.be/SaB9R2YOhr4?t=45">Death/The Philosopher</a> en <a href="https://youtu.be/OKtT5mzrEdE?t=166">deze</a> – creative! (&ldquo;He&rsquo;s making this look terrifyingly easy.&rdquo;)</li>
<li>Vocalen: <a href="https://youtu.be/6f3Icp3WLgQ?t=35">Type O Negative/Love you to death</a> en <a href="https://youtu.be/egiX5ply__U?t=452">deze</a> – seductive!</li>
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<p>Both versions offer a way back to your own first time hearing these, finding new ways to express what touched you.</p>
<p><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/waiting-to-be-seated">Waiting to be seated</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ap1HJ8Cd4M">Short documentary about jazz musician Jackie McLean</a>, the painful battle between artistic freedom and making a basic living.</p>
<p>Rewatched <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/">Margin Call</a>, it&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acbnyagl8jo">fascinating</a>. On with <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596363">The Big Short</a>.</p>
<p>More experiments in <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/more-brunetti-variations">Lego printed Brunetti-style characters</a>.</p>
<p>#weeknotes 2020-42</p>
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<p>My <a href="https://www.dia-centrum.nl/diabetes-etui-koelelement-p-4473.html">new favorite pen case</a>, found at the second hand store. Turns out it is a medical case for people with diabetes. Three zippered compartments, great size.</p>
<p>New book arrivals: <a href="https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/post-digital-print/#publication_6758">Post digital print</a> by Alessandro Ludovico, Modes of criticism #5: <a href="https://www.onomatopee.net/exhibition/modes-of-criticism/#publication_10381">Design systems</a>, <a href="https://www.bispublishers.com/offline-matters.html">Offline Matters</a> by Jess Henderson, <a href="https://www.bispublishers.com/this-human.html">This Human</a> by dr. Melis Senova.</p>
<p>&ldquo;The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.&rdquo; – <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/cgjungny/status/1315367827042455555">CarlJung</a>. Some of the books above seem related to this.</p>
<p>Continuing on <a href="https://write.as/rs-links/size-of-a-thought">last weeks note taking theme</a>, Maggie Appleton has <a href="https://maggieappleton.com/basb">a great visual summary on Building a second brain</a>, a course by <a href="https://learn.fortelabs.co/p/building-a-second-brain-11">Fortelabs</a>.</p>
<p>&ldquo;Being present in Life is to be emergent in the moment, not scripted. A lot of work depends upon people running their day by consciously pre-planned tasks in linear succession: It&rsquo;s no wonder most all self-help methods with aspirations for commercial success are the same.&rdquo; <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/SocialWealth/status/1302877531264212995">@socialwealth</a></p>
<p>I&rsquo;m looking at how people use their journals, bullet or otherwise. An important aspect for me is that in my creative journal, the work can be undirected, free flowing. Anything goes. A place for process over results.</p>
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<p><a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/personal-knowledge-management-through-the-centuries">On personal knowledge management through the centuries</a>. If note taking systems are your thing, then be sure to browse the the <a href="https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/">Taking Note blog archive</a>. On <a href="https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2010/12/on-size-of-thought.html">the size of thoughts</a>: &ldquo;most are about three feet tall, with the level of complexity of a lawnmower engine, or a cigarette lighter, or those tubes of toothpaste that, by mingling several hidden pastes and gels, create a pleasantly striped product.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Initial experiments with <a href="https://bildung.royscholten.nl/brunetti-style-character-designs-in-legoprint">Brunetti style characters in Lego-printing</a>.</p>
<p>I listen to pretty heavy and hectic music. Still took me almost a year to crack <a href="https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-in-darkness">Mirror in Darkness by Serpent Column</a>. Managed to listen to the whole thing in one sitting this week and it finally clicked. Just in time for <a href="https://serpentcolumn.bandcamp.com/album/kathodos">the new release</a>!</p>
<p>On the other side of the spectrum: 3+ hours of chill with <a href="https://youtu.be/JVJJ8CL371E">Namlook and Hawtin</a>, 3+ hours of <a href="https://youtu.be/B0ohpe56T3k">Klaus Schulze</a></p>
<p>Going to start listening to John Vervaeke on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLND1JCRq8Vuh3f0P5qjrSdb5eC1ZfZwWJ">Awakening from the Meaning Crisis</a>. Via <a href="https://futurethinkers.org/john-vervaeke-overcoming-the-meaning-crisis/">Futurethinkers</a>. Added the youtube videos as podcast-able audio to <a href="https://huffduffer.com/roy">my huffduffer</a> (temporarily!)</p>
<p>Got lucky at the second hand store, found <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781563893872">The Collected Sandman Covers</a> as illustrated by <a href="https://www.davemckean.com/portfolio/covers/">Dave McKean</a> for very cheap. McKean was a big influence on my own early (digital) image-making work. <a href="https://echtmedia.net/beginners-guide-dave-mckean/">Great drawings, too</a> (in Dutch).</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://roamresearch.com/">Roamresearch</a> and <a href="https://obsidian.md/">Obsidian</a> are just two of the latest examples of note taking and note organizing applications that focus on atomic and networked notes. I&rsquo;m tinkering with Obsidian because it  does its thing on top of a local folder of markdown text files. (Before that: <a href="https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/">nvAlt</a>)</p>
<p>One often referenced example from before computers is the Zettelkasten created by German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. He built up a collection of 90,000 handwritten A6-sized notes using a self invented numbering and linking system.</p>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/173128404">Here is a video recording of a presentation that details the structure and inner workings of Luhmanns Zettelkasten</a> In German.</p>
<p>The book <a href="https://takesmartnotes.com/">How to take smart notes</a> by Sönke Ahrens is a good manual for applying this way of personal knowledge management (PKM) to your own work. Or check out <a href="https://vimeo.com/275530205">this video</a> to get an idea.</p>
<p>Harold Jarche has an online workshop <a href="https://jarche.com/pkm/">Personal Knowledge Mastery</a> that is a very gentle <em>and</em> thorough introduction to finding your own approach in this kind of working, and more importantly: thinking.</p>
<p>The real treasure trove with many historic PKM examples is the <a href="https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/">Taking Note blog</a>. No new posts there since 2018 but with an extensive archive of posts going back to 2007. All kinds of goodies like <a href="https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2011/09/holderlin-and-version-control.html">how a 18th century poet did version control</a> to (of course) <a href="https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/search?q=common&#43;place">common place books</a> or <a href="https://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2014/12/medieval-notepads.html">medieval notepads</a>.</p>
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<p>In his <a href="https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300170993/cartooning">Cartooning syllabus</a>, Ivan Brunetti presents a simple formula for drawing a cartoon character that anyone can easily learn to draw and adapt to make their own.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s a very clean, graphic approach which I figured should translate well to our custom Lego-printing process. Initial results look promising!</p>
<p>For a single printing, the room for expression is in position of eye, nose, limbs and clothing style. The cap, the hair and the mouth in the top two prints are from a second printing (you can see the overlapping ink). Need to take care of clear registration points for consistently positioning the paper between prints.</p>
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<p>The vocabulary of shapes in Lego seem to lend themselves well for this. For example, the collars shape in the bottom left one is already a useful clothing variation.</p>
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			<title>Cartooning Brunetti 1.1</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>In which we make 6 drawings of a thing, in ever shorter amounts of time. From four minutes down to five seconds.</p>
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<figure><img src="/img/cartooning-castles.png">
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<figure><img src="/img/cartooning-cats.png">
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<figure><img src="/img/cartooning-phones.png">
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			<title>De blog heet Bildung want</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>“Der Begriff der Bildung zielt auf die geistige, gestalterische und moralische Entwicklung, die aus Vernunft und Freiheit heraus und ohne direkte Abhängigkeit von Politik und Wirtschaft geschieht. Gemeint ist nicht nur der Vorgang, sondern auch der Zustand bzw. das Ergebnis. Das humboldtsche Bildungsideal beinhaltet die ganzheitliche Ausbildung in Wissenschaft und Kunst und die verbindliche Einheit von Forschung und Lehre, einschließlich der Wissenschaftsfreiheit.”</p>
<p>(<a href="https://wirtschaftslexikon.gabler.de/definition/bildung-100060">via</a>)</p>
<p>En ook:</p>
<p>“Die Anregung aller Kräfte des Menschen, damit diese sich über die Aneignung der Welt entfalten und zu einer sich selbst bestimmenden Individualität und Persönlichkeit führen.”</p>
<p>(<a href="https://www.bildungsxperten.net/wissen/was-ist-bildung/">via</a>)</p>
<p>In het Nederlands komt &ldquo;Vorming&rdquo; waarschijnlijk het dichtst bij. Maar Bildung bevat beeld (Bild), vorming bevat vorm. De term &ldquo;beeld&rdquo; zit voor mij meer op de inhoud. Vorm en vorming associeer ik meer met sculptuur, boetseren.</p>
<p>Bildung de blog gaat over beeld en tekst als sense-making tools. De echte constanten in mijn doen en laten zijn tekenen en lezen. Ik wil mezelf meer oefenen in schrijven zodat ik de combinatie tekst en beeld ook daadwerkelijk met inhoud kan onderzoeken. Niet dat beeld geen inhoud heeft, maar verhalend vertellen en verbeelden hebben zowel tekst en beeld nodig om tot een eigen manier en programma van expressie te komen.</p>
<p>Bildung: onderwijs en onderzoek middels tekst en beeld.</p>
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			<title>Remixing images from a Hildegard Von Bingen manuscript</title>
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			<title>Gerry Mcgovern asks</title>
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<p>Any good digital designer knows that architecture and hierarchy have a very significant influence on how people behave on a website or app. Yet getting designers and orgs to truly focus on architecture design is so hard. Why is that?</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern/status/1278721295862153222">https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern/status/1278721295862153222</a></p>
<p>Well&hellip;</p>
<p>The answer is multi-faceted of course. Aspects that are in play:</p>
<ul>
<li>Architecture is not shiny, not sexy, it&rsquo;s UX plumbing.</li>
<li>It integrates and connects with both content and technology. Content because the actual service experience is expressed trough content. Technology because that&rsquo;s where many decisions and trade-offs are made about what&rsquo;s going to be available and possible in the first place.</li>
<li>Bridging those domains takes a lot of investments in getting to shared vocabulary and understanding. Talking with people is an essential design skill but not always well developed.</li>
<li>Architecture and hierarchy of an interface requires focus on sequence and flow between individual screens. Individual screens are easier to make nice. Knowing if a flow performs well is harder to define and agree on.</li>
<li>Blending content, design and tech into coherent services requires the full team to be able to switch between high level architectural principles and the tiny details of implementation.</li>
</ul>
<p>As such, architecture is the outcome of a group effort, not a specific role. Shared responsibilities are often hardest to take care of.</p>
<p>I personally love working on this UX plumbing level of things, it&rsquo;s where the potential for what the thing may become gets defined and realised.</p>
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			<title>Parallelle procesdocumentatie</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>De zine aanpak ernaast hebben lopen. Zoals het aquarelvel dat doormidden moest door een verticale streep. Links je onderwerp, rechts je studievel: wat doet de kleur, wat doet de kwastbehandeling? Mengen, nat in nat etc.</p>
<p>Zo ook een stapel A4 of A3 gevouwen naast het lopende drukproces mee laten gaan in het proces. Expliciete bestemming voor studies, probeersels, proces-notities in druk en geschreven tekst.</p>
<p>Dubbelzijdig bedrukken is al een expliciete uitspraak over de aard van het werk. Niet om in te lijsten maar om op te bundelen. Het proces wordt zo in parallel aan het product gedocumenteerd, en vormt uiteindelijk zelf ook een (meta-)product dat context geeft aan en commentaar bij het &ldquo;originele werk&rdquo;.</p>
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			<title>Dag Herma</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Via Grafisch Atelier Hilversum en de boekkunstbeurs in Leiden leerden we elkaar kennen. Ik kwam een keer samen met een collega kunstenaar bij je op bezoek en we raakten in gesprek. Al snel ontstond daaruit een warme en hechte vriendschap.</p>
<p>Ik belde altijd eerst even op voordat ik bij je langs kwam. En als de deur dan open ging was het: &ldquo;Welkom, welkom, welkom, treed binnen. Ontdoe u van uw jas. Nemen we plaats in de salon?&rdquo; Ook in het Nederlands dat je sprak was je volstrekt eigen.</p>
<p>We vatten het plan op om in het grafisch atelier een exposite van je werk te maken. Die periode van samen wikken en wegen, selecteren en presenteren zal me altijd bijblijven en dierbaar zijn. We kwamen tot een mooie selectie werken die je zelf op die manier ook nog nooit bij elkaar gezien had. Het was wel even wennen, om echt te moeten kiezen uit al dat werk. Immers: &ldquo;thuis heb ik nog meer!&rdquo;</p>
<p>Want wat heb je hard gewerkt Herma.</p>
<p>In de afgelopen weken hebben we samen nog een grote ladenkast met werk doorgenomen. Er dook een tekening in kleurpotlood op. Een boerderijtje buiten in het landschap. In 1938 gemaakt door de 12-jarige H. Steur. Je kreeg een 8 van de leraar. Toen was immers de 9 nog voor de meester en de 10 voor onze lieve heer. Wat een talent en kunde, toen al.</p>
<p>En als we dan eens over mijn werk spraken, dan kwam al snel de kunstdocent in je weer naar boven. &ldquo;Hoe kom je tot deze verbeeldingen? Wat is de essentie van jouw grafisch bezig zijn op deze wijze?&rdquo; Binnen de korste keren voelde ik me dan weer het groentje op de kunstacademie en zat te draaien in m&rsquo;n stoel. &ldquo;Ja euh, dat weet ik toch ook allemaal niet!&rdquo;</p>
<p>We waren het er over eens dat we juist beeld maken om uitdrukking te geven aan het onzegbare. En toch heb je juist aan dat idee ook altijd weer woorden willen geven. Een colofon, een inleiding, een toelichting, of gewoon dwars door de tekening heen geschreven.</p>
<p>En zo heb je je hele leven lang met een scherpe blik, een vaardige hand en een groot hart de wereld om je heen, en je eigen bestaan daarin willen doorgronden. Ruim tachtig jaren kunstenaarsschap waarin leven en werk in elkaar op gingen. Met recht één groot levenswerk. Wie doet je dat na?</p>
<p>Lieve Herma. Bedankt voor je kracht, warmte, humor en scherpzinnigheid. Niet alleen voor mij, maar voor veel meer mensen dan je durfde te denken ben je, en blijf je, een inspiratie en motivatie om aan het werk te gaan. Aan het werk om te blijven zoeken naar het goede, het mooie en het ware. In onszelf en de wereld om ons heen.</p>
<p>Herma, dag.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Reset of <a href="https://royscholten.nl">royscholten.nl</a>. Still hugo based static site, but even simpler. This site is to function as the high level intro to what I do, make, learn, teach. Core blogging is done under <a href="http://bildung.royscholten.nl">bildung.royscholten.nl</a>, running on the <a href="https://write.as">write.as</a> platform.</p>
<p>I think too much about what to post where instead of doing the actual posting. Moving all bloggings to a subdomain clearly marks the space where everything goes, topic wise. Eventually on the royscholten site itself I&rsquo;ll outline the main areas of expertise/activity with more specific pointers. That&rsquo;s the plan!</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Found two drawings from at least 8 years ago.</p>
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			<title>Rhizomatic cataloguing</title>
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<p>I have always enjoyed categorizing and indexing things. Labels, groupings, sections, categories.</p>
<p>There&rsquo;s a lot to be found online on the principles, hows and whys of digital note taking and note keeping. Most of it is primarily concerned with text based content. Text is an accessible and portable medium of expression. Dimensions, length, amount of text per note is not a big concern for digital texts.</p>
<p>How much more complicated it becomes when the source material is physical and the content is of a pictorial nature. A meaningful sorting and grouping is harder to establish.</p>
<p>But. Worrying about an overarching structure is a form of procrastination. An imagined need to know the big picture beforehand keeps you from getting started.</p>
<p>Finding out about Luhmann&rsquo;s Zettelkasten was an a-ha moment and a big relief. The approach Luhmann took for connecting and ordering individual <em>physical</em> pieces of writing is infinitely flexible and expandable. No preconceived classification needed. An open ended numbering system allows you to simply start. Somewhere, anywhere.</p>
<p>This removes an important mental block. Any place is the right place to start because <em>there is no wrong place to start</em>. There&rsquo;s no special weight or importance to note number 1. Even a rhizome has to start somewhere.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>The work today was about taking care of a dying friend. Lifting her out of bed, into the chair. Spoonfulls of water, some tea.</p>
<p>Friends visiting, saying their goodbyes. Hoping to be able to do the same again tomorrow.</p>
<p>In between, going through boxe and boxes worth of drawings, prints, writing. Some of it very intimate.</p>
<p>I miss her already.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Zoveel liefde te geven, met<br>
Zoveel kracht en energie.</p>
<p>Zoveel eisen, en<br>
Even zoveel vragen.</p>
<p>Aan jezelf,<br>
En de wereld om je heen.</p>
<p>De lat altijd maar hoger gelegd,<br>
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			<title>My best artist friend is dying</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>My best artist friend is dying. She&rsquo;s 93 and near the end of a long and winding path.</p>
<p>Over 70 years worth of artistic production stacked in boxes everywhere in her house/studio. Brilliant drawings, drypoints, lithographs, letterpress prints. I spent the afternoon with her. Even got out for a bit to sit in the sun.</p>
<p>She gave it her all. With eager and demanding eyes, masterful hands and great heart, yet never sure she&rsquo;d done good, right, enough.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not about doing <em>what</em> you love. It&rsquo;s about finding out <em>why</em> you do what you do, so that you can do it <em>with</em> love.</p>
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<p>Kwam  een podcast tegen over <a href="https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/podcast/middeleeuwen-en-renaissance/gravures">de oudste gravure in de collectie van het Rijksmuseum</a>. Onderwerp van de afbeelding is de werkplaats van de plaatsnijder zelf. Een kleine link met een van de monoprints die ik afgelopen dagen maakte in het creative image lab: een (perspectivisch naïeve) voorstelling van een drietal mensen dat elk aan een tafel aan het beeldmaakwerken is.</p>
<p>Het is goed om doorlopend een serie prenten in ontwikkeling te hebben. Het zijn oefeningen, niet bedoeld als presenteerbare werkstukken. Sommige exemplaren lenen zich daar uiteindelijk wellicht wel voor, maar dat is dan bijvangst. Losbladig werken is hierbij een essentiële voorwaarde.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Een lijst op twitter gemaakt met als onderwerp <a href="https://twitter.com/i/lists/1264881900285558784">digitaal erfgoed</a>. Daarin een eerste selectie mensen en instellingen die actief zijn in dit domein, veelal in het Nederlands taalgebied.</p>
<p>Technologie, verhaal, advies, subsidies. Doel is om voor <a href="https://www.gahilversum.nl/">Grafisch Atelier Hilversum</a> de erfgoedcollectie die er al is beter te registreren en zichtbaar te maken. We hebben al een start gemaakt met aanzet voor een beleid met doorvertaling naar strategie en activiteiten. Daar de volgende stappen in zetten. Op basis van de expertise in de twitter-lijst wil ik duidelijk krijgen wat de mogelijkheden, kansen en aandachtspunten zijn en wat dan de eerstvolgende stappen zijn.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p>I started mentoring two young professionals who want to switch to or specialize more in digital user experience design.</p>
<p>After an initial introduction meeting I have now reviewed their respective portfolios.</p>
<p>What I try to do is show them what they actually already can do. Identify the existing expertise and skills and connect those to skills and capabilities that are relevant in a design context as well.</p>
<p>Persona development has become very hand-wavy. Beware the too professional looking persona headshot.</p>
<p>As junior designers they present portfolio projects (self initiated, or based on courses, trainings) where they work through all parts of the design process. From research through concept, from low fidelity to high fidelity sketching and prototyping, from moodboard to detailed user interface design. Which is good to practice, but unrealistic. All design work is collaborative work.</p>
<p>Also,</p>
<ul>
<li>Label your screens, sketches, flows. Help people understand what you are showing them</li>
<li>Make a distinction between expertise/skills and deliverables. You have expertise in UI design. Which shows through moodboards, design tiles, high-fidelity mockups and style guides. You are a skilled user researcher because you have experience in interviewing, user shadowing, persona development, survey design and analysis, etc.</li>
<li>Connecting back to the bit about collaboration: clearly identify the parts of the project you were responsible for. Beware not to present the project as if you did all of it.</li>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Had a dream about Drupal core priorities the other day. Two I remember:</p>
<ol>
<li>Fieldable fields</li>
<li>Make it swing</li>
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<p>I&rsquo;m here for both.</p>
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						<![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.typophile.com/node/103837">https://www.typophile.com/node/103837</a> won&rsquo;t say, but this history must have been written already, somewhere by someone?</p>
<p>Oh look, some thoughts: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170616012443/https://www.typophile.com/node/103837">https://web.archive.org/web/20170616012443/https://www.typophile.com/node/103837</a></p>
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			<title>Free fall through space</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>Music for endlessly tumbling through the emptiness of space:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://voidsphere.bandcamp.com/album/to-exist-to-breathe">Voidsphere</a></li>
<li><a href="https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/dark-space-iii-i">Darkspace</a></li>
<li><a href="https://strigae.bandcamp.com/album/i-collision">Strigae</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hwwauoch.bandcamp.com/album/into-the-labyrinth-of-consciousness">HWWAUCH</a></li>
<li><a href="https://arkhtinn.bandcamp.com/">Arkhtinn</a></li>
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			<title>Tome for Drupal based static websites</title>
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						<![CDATA[<p>set up <a href="https://tome.fyi/">tome.fyi</a> locally to create a repository of my prints and other art works and projects. Tome is a static site generator for Drupal. This combines the structured content and power tools UI of Drupal with plain html exports for use on a live site.</p>
<p>Had to start over a few times because me is noob and the project has some rough edges as well, presumably. i.e. don&rsquo;t delete the content types and fields that are expected to be present when reinstalling with the Standard install profile.</p>
<p>Also an exercise in catalogueing with the use of metadata from the <a href="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/">AAT thesaurus</a></p>
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