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“Design[ing] a set of characters for a new phonetic alphabet or syllabary for a specific context.” Our table developed a ‘Clap-abet’, in which letters are hand signals which include a sound, such as ‘clap’, ‘snap’ (click), ‘tap’. We drew out an accompanying notation with diagrams for learning purposes, but it can also be taught easily…

I had a Teams meeting with José García Oliva, in which I showed him my video essay and my blog. He asked me what my aim for the project was. I said I wasn’t yet sure. We talked about Ogham (‘the Celtic Tree alphabet’) and my idea to encrypt information with a new Lindenmayer branching…

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT “We may say most aptly, that the analytical engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.” Galileo said “the laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics” And there something curious between the beauty of the nature being underpinned by mathematics. The algorithmic beauty of plants can…

Loosening up and allowing new ideas to germinate by thinking through drawing: about Lindenmayer systems, recursion, cellular division, branches and shapes. This process was a form of making energy visible, akin to Knowles’ Tree Drawings (https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/28/knowles.php) except my hands were the branches and the wind was my mind: Focusing on the word, ‘REPEAT’ – thinking…

STATEMENT Our group’s exploration of the areas of information gaps or ‘leakages’ in greenwashing in the Lacoste campaign was a sobering one. It was very apparent that graphic communication design decisions underpin a large extent of what is conveyed and what is not. This was helpful in terms of self-reflection about one’s own position as…

In response to the ‘GREEN FOR WHOM?’ prompt, my group (Haram Joung, Sanjana Rajesh, and myself) picked Lacoste’s ‘Save Our Species’ campaign to investigate, in which the iconic embroidered crocodile logo was replaced by embroidery of 10 endangered species. We started our investigations by considering the word, ‘green’, and iterated through ways of displaying its…

‘How do machines read? How do we read machine readings? How do we read with machines?‘ with Laura Knight.

Using p5.js for the first time to create a representation of time. These are screengrabs of my splatter-spirographic clock:

Using p5.js to reproduce these plant growth graphics from page 37 of ‘The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants’ (Prusinkiewicz and Lindenmayer, 2004). This process was fraught with erroneous but interesting outcomes. HACKING with microphone input: continuous sound waves alter discrete outputs: Thinking through stitching: exploring and modelling the ideas expounded upon in ‘Literature down to a…

With Maria-Ines Gul