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Dalston driving lessons type
September 15, 2008 by pierreTags: dalston, posters, public notices, typography | Comments (0)
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An experiment in the economics of production
July 24, 2008 by jeromeAn experiment in the economics of production: how can we shift focus from consumption of a finished product to investment in the processes of design, print & production?
This is a poster and a text: an analog R-Echos
Would you be interested in investing in the tangible production of this work?1. You can download the digital archive
and decide wether or not you’re interested in particpating in this project.
2. Each participant donate a minimum of £8
3. The publication is produced
4. We share the publications
which means each participant own a fair amount of publications and participants decide (collectively or individually) what to do with it.
minimum £8
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Electronest Projects & see through pages
June 8, 2008 by jerome
Inspired by a few research and a certain trend we decided to give see-through website a first go and this weekend, we finally managed to group a few works and an archive links list on two pages: Electronest Websites Work Selection and Electronest’s Projects Archive; these page simply use an iframe objects to display other’s websites. Some of the many problem we usually faced when presenting our online portfolio, are:
1/ it’s bad to have a huge list of links - no one is going to ever click on each links; it’s better to keep track with reality and we reduced the quantity by focusing on just a few websites.
2/ visual concision - no images and not a list either, but a simple drown menu which stays in the corner. you’re two click away from any content at any given time.
3/ browsing efficiency - you don’t have to open in a new window, or to browse back to the page if you decided to see a bit more of the showcased websites.
4/ un-obstrusiveness - you can remove the navigation at any given time to explore further in an de-clustered window.
5/ the most interesting bit: you see the real thing.This way still requires certainly a lot of improvements - but it is a very effective and straight to the point way to share a few things we liked to work on and it gives a good overview of our online work.
For a more complete picture of all our activities, we developed a prototype following the same principle of the see through website, but we expanded the list to a 88 elements list - our beta archive for the past 4 years, which is approximatively 22 projects per year.
The page is made of 2 main elements: an iframe and a navigation form. The navigation form is simply made of a select element where option’s values are giving the url of the listed elements. The javascript we are using on this page remains quite simple:
- in the form’s OnChange:
document.getElementById('where_to_go_next').src = this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;
- in the link to remove the iFrame and reload the selected page:
the_local_form = document.getElementById('author_list'); window.location=the_local_form.options[the_local_form.selectedIndex].value
value="http://..."), we can access it to define the new location of the window DOM element.Tags: collection, flux, portfolio, see through, work | Comments (1)
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webpages and webapps
May 10, 2008 by pierreI started using online applications like Gmail, Flickr and Bloglines when they were published in early 2004. Around that time I started to look into web programming and what could be done with CGI scripts or PHP & MYSQL, and it’s also when Ruby on Rails was first released. Today I’m living in google mail, reader and docs, watch closely the market of webapps, and develop some at work and in my leisure time. In the recent years I learned quite a lot about the techniques that these apps are built on, on the interface side: patterns for Javascript, the DOM and XML, as well as on the backend side: db models, caching etc…
Yet more and more I’m finding myself pushing for simple declarative text files and bare html solutions: I’m dreaming of static webpages or jpg directly displayed in the web browser window… I’m not saying that we should build webpages and stop building webapps, but I think webapps have been doing such an impression on me that I started seeing every sites projects as a a webapp. Like if suddenly ink on paper was printed books all around and no manuscripts anymore, no scribbled napkins notes, etc…
All this to say that these days I enjoy a lot re-discovering all that can be done just by pushing a few html element and some content in a plain text file.
Inspiring sites:
http://okmij.org/ftp/
http://www.ftarri.com/index.htmlExamples of webpages we did with Jérôme recently:
Tags: design, html, presence, webapps, webpages, websites | Comments (0)
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Electronic Presence & Pocket URI
March 28, 2008 by jeromeYesterday we all went to the launch of Disclosures, a series of event organised by Gasworks. Disclosures purpose is to scrutinise the notion of openness across fields of cultural production at large..
Electronest is part of the event as commissioned artist/designer for the Pipeline website and we also designed the printed communication.
This morning, like almost every morning, I was looking at the statistics of our various websites; I started to consider the leaflet in which we had the chance to have an extended colophon as an extension of our Electronic Presence - yesterday, on Assembling we released a short report about the re-launch of Electronest’s “home page” and I remembered an idea Pierre explored a little while ago: Generic Business Card.
This morning, the idea of considering those bits of paper which I always neglected (or more exactly which I always tried to neglect) as an extension of our Electronic Presence started to be quite attractive.
Attractive enough for me, to have my own go at it.
Reading WikiPedia, Business Cards evolved from a fusion of traditional trade cards and visiting cards; they are bearing business information about a company or individual. They are shared during formal introductions as a convenience and a memory aid.
It is funny to then read and figure out the similitude with the definition of what a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is: In computing, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), is a compact string of characters used to identify or name a resource. The main purpose of this identification is to enable interaction with representations of the resource over a network, typically the World Wide Web, using specific protocols.∗ Business Cards on WikiPedia
∗ URI on WikiPedia
∗ by the way, the program which has a few mistakes and bugs, should be corrected in a future PDF, a sort RC2
∗ Pipeline |* is not yet launched but it should get some content and go live soonTags: ambient, beacon, electronic presence, print, tangible, typography, uri | Comments (0)
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Disclosures Wall
March 27, 2008 by jerome
This is a 365×270 cm wall inside the Gasworks gallery. It will signal I’ve got the books, you’ve got the brains… and the Disclosures series of events; it’s featuring the font LaPolice by François Rappo, edited by B&P Type Foundry.
Tags: design, disclosures, gasworks, typography, wall | Comments (0)
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the night Potentially became Capacity…
March 18, 2008 by jerome…is tonight. Hello World!
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pipeline frontend development
March 14, 2008 by jerome‘lo, update before uploading the site, finished coding main views.
Tags: coding, color, pipeline, project, wordpress | Comments (0)
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test to go in a more abstract direction
March 12, 2008 by pierreeverything as a stripe (navigation menu and wp credit feed as well)
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Capacity is recording now
February 21, 2008 by jeromehttp://capacity.electronest.com/
pour le moment c’est semi public les tiff passe sans probleme dans Safari (quand on copy/paste des imaes dans mail) mais pas du tout dans Camino… il y a des soucis quand un post contient du html et des images - parfois le content est retiré (surement des problemes d’autodetection du mimetype/additional pouzr la deuxieme partis du mail)
ca marche pas trop mal tellement bien que je me demande si on ne devrait pas le rendre public en fait en gardant en tete de ne pas y poster d’information sensible…
à bientot jerome
