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The film was made in 1956 by Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart for Canada's National Film Board. McLaren, a Scottish-born Canadian, pioneered the use of stop-motion animation of abstract shapes synchronised with sound, using the same technique adopted 25 years later by Rod Lord for his seminal work in producing the animated book sequences in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC Television series.

Because it began life essentially as a branch of the theory of computation, and because the latter began life essentially as a branch of logic, the discipline of artificial intelligence (AI) has very deep historical roots in logic.

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Un regroupement d'ouvrages traitant du design graphique et de la typographie.

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This year, at the ATypI typography conference in Warsaw, representatives from Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, and Google presented an exciting development in typography: support for variable fonts in OpenType fonts. Font variations are best shown with an example:

"All fonts from the section with the fonts I created may also be used without restriction for commercial projects. Also some of the only extended fonts are under a license, which allows the license file and a FAQ for this is then added to the download."

I will try to understand why this way of designing a font
never got widely adopted. If it is possible to create a more
easy to use program to design western characters. And finally
if this approach to type design would help to create new and
interesting curves and shapes for letterforms.

Cela ne vous aura sans doute pas échappé : ces derniers temps tout le monde parle de Grid Layout, le récent module de positionnement CSS par grilles, aujourd'hui adopté par la plupart des navigateurs.

Version 1.8 of the OpenType font format specification introduces an extensive new technology, affecting almost every area of the format. An OpenType variable font is one in which the equivalent of multiple individual fonts can be compactly packaged within a single font file.

Floss Manuals est une plateforme de partage et de co-création plurilingue. Floss Manuals met à la disposition du grand public et des professionnels une collection de livres en français sur les logiciels, la culture libre et le matériel libre. S'appuyant sur la communauté d'utilisateurs de ces outils, notamment les auteurs, éditeurs, artistes, développeurs de logiciels et activistes, ces livres sont consultables librement en différents formats (pages web, pdf et epub).

Evening Class is a self-organised design education experiment; flexible environment where participants can cultivate common interests, develop their research and collectively shape the class’s agenda.

Raphaël Bastide is an artist and designer based in Paris. His work is mainly related to the digital and computer program culture. His projects include installations, online and offline performances, websites and custom made programs.