A Jagged Orbit

“If we can teach our machines to remember, then we can also teach them to forget.” —Donnachie and Simionato, 2024. For inScript 2024 we will discuss A Jagged Orbit (2023–ongoing), an automated-art-system which explores the computational equivalent of daydreaming. Through our system we can speculate on the benefits of designing so-called ‘intelligent’ machines with the capacity for ‘mind wandering’ and other forms of abstraction.

Way of Seeing: New Perspectives in Experience Design and Digital Design

This presentation explores experience design and digital design projects through the lens of ‘ways of seeing’ I delve into the methodologies of target audience selection and content organization in creating exhibition experiences, as well as designing visitor experiences through new technologies. Through diverse case studies such as the Adidas Korea pop-up store design utilizing Apple Vision Pro, the Vogue Korea archive project, and the artifact media kiosk at the Seoul Museum of Craft Art, I introduce the processes of information classification, technology application, and creating viewing experiences using new technologies. I share insights into the evolving ‘ways of seeing‘, from traditional exhibition methods to interactive experiences employing cutting-edge technology.

Typeface for Unity

Since their invention, typefaces have been used in books, art, and design to convey information and impressions. However, I believe they hold even greater possibilities. Typefaces can connect people who have never been connected before. In this talk, I will explore how typefaces can unite people with different perspectives. We will focus on "Braille Neue," a typeface that integrates Braille and existing characters, demonstrating how design can bridge diverse communities.

The Guide to Be Seen

As a type designer whose job is basically making useful forms, I’m obsessed with shapes that were created for non-human gaze or machine scan process: Aerial photo calibrations targets, television test patterns, optical code like QR or barcode. A homage to Hito Steyerl’s film “How Not To Be Seen” (and actually pushing the thoughts into the opposite side), This talk unfolds my most recent body of studies around the idea of “augmented type”, including my type and image making process, and some prompts that expand into screen-based mediums.

Embodied Typography—Exploring the Body as Interface

Why not use our bodies to communicate with machines? The Embodied Typography series explores how we can interact with type and graphics through our body as interface. This experimental approach opens up an endless playground of human-computer interaction, transforming code into both tool and artistic device. Embracing a speculative design perspective, creative coding takes us on a journey with uncertain and unexpected outcomes.

Themes and Permutations: Frameworks for Audiovisual Composition

Join new media artist Pauric Freeman as he discusses his approach to audiovisual composition. In this talk, Pauric will guide you through the creative process behind his latest performance piece, "Structures," uncovering the core principles and methodologies that shape his work. He will explain how he uses permutations to develop narratives around themes, and will demonstrate his approach to implementing these concepts within a generative visual system.

Iterative Analogue Arabic Letter-making in Contemporary Design Practice

The Arabic script, with its flowing cursive nature and diverse geographical influences throughout history, faces challenges in a hyperpoliticized technspheres that often favors block letter alphabets over other scriptual systems. In this talk, Mina explores the benefits of integrating analogue techniques of Arabic letter making into modern practices, highlighting the unique craftsmanship and artistry that these methods bring to contemporary design.

Animated type: Bridging Graphic, Type, and Motion Design

Klinksik’s talk delves into the dynamic intersection of graphic design, typography, and motion design, with a focus on animated typography. It will explore how being a designer skilled in all three disciplines can serve as a catalyst for creative output.

b•••coming with

At Inscript, Formless Twins will present "b•••coming with," their Generative Museum Identity Design System based on Collective Participation for the Busan Museum of Contemporary Art. This ongoing identity system challenges preconceptions of locality, contemporaneity, and publicness by intersecting technology, typography, ecosystem, and playfulness. The project originated from their interest in the playful irony of marginalized aesthetics and its relation to non-fixed identity expression.

Cooking in the Darkroom

I was never much of a cook even though the social language of my region is food. However, I discovered that a darkroom could provide a space for making type feasts. One of the collaborative projects that nudged me in this direction was the making of a children's book for local arts and education partners. In this project, my colleague and I used play and experimentation to explore and push boundaries of traditional photogram making. Our portable ‘fridge’ consisted of honey, lemon pulp, corn syrup, ice, soap foam, ink, and other fun ingredients. The very crude limitations of the mechanics behind photograms inspired a creative journey of curiosity and exploration. This traditional craft suddenly became a tool for making and baking type. I am humbled by the opportunity to share this process with the Inscript community.

HARBER

Benoît Bodhuin usually starts with lowercase letters when designing a font family. Not this time. He started with the capital letters H, A, R, B and E and thus had a name for the font straight away. HARBER is a font designed on a dot grid in which each letter is unchanging, only the dots move and grow. These changes are determined by five axes: weight, slant, volume, noise and optical size.

A journey through visual programming language turned toward typography

This talk will be about the story behind the creation of a type based visual aesthetic using visual programming language. Going through the various unexpected outputs I got and the thread that links one to another. And finally, how those different stages of evolution construct a various catalogue to pick from in the future.

Typing Presence

In a world where we are physically apart, the web allows us to coexist in the same digital space. But how can we recognize each other’s presence and build emotional connections when we cannot see one another? “Typing Presence” explores how, through the act of typing, we reveal our presence in the digital environment and collaboratively construct communal spaces.

This Helped: From Spark to Vision

We would like to share how unforeseen discoveries and unique thought processes influence the final outcomes of our work.In this talk, we’ll share real cases from our studio, demonstrating how everyday moments—images or videos, sudden memories, deep discussions, or solitary reflections—transform into creative designs. We’ll delve into the origins of ideas that hold personal interest and social significance, illustrating how initial sparks evolve into specific design elements or choices.Hope this helps your journeys.

Sound Type

A behind-the-scenes look at Sound Type, a project that uses waveforms to draw letters and graphics. By using specially-designed sound waves, we can send somebody text with just audio. These ongoing experiments show a different dimension of lettering, and explore the relationship between our eyes and ears. What you see is what you hear.

With text: Code as Clay

In this talk I want to highlight how code, which is made of thousands of single characters, forms a new creative material for designers, artists and enthusiasts. Drawing parallels to materials that are used to create works of art such as wood, metal, with the help of elements like fire, water and air, we can view code as a clay-like mass with non-newtonian properties that can driven by simple math equations and randomness.

There are three options: The first talk is about my «Creative Process» and everything I learned so far. The second is about the «Graphic Design Workflow». How it started. Why we created it and so on. And the third option would be about creating the «Südpol Poster Series». We would go thought some designs from sketch to final. I will decide two seconds before the presentation which one to show.

Resilient Narratives: The Power of Indigenous Visual Signs in Creative Technology.

This talk explores how visual signs from ancient Latin American cultures, imbued with deep narratives, are reinterpreted using creative technology tools like p5.js and Processing. The presentation briefly examines how these resilient cultural expressions not only decolonize design but also rejuvenate historical narratives. Creative technology amplifies the significance and relevance of our indigenous visual signs, offering a universe of creative possibilities and fostering meaningful contemporary cultural connections.