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ALT A5 handmade zine about email design, light grey with 'V' on the cover and issue 01
ALT Browsing through the zine sat on the balcony
ALT 3D printed bookbinding jig, with a text block loaded in it
ALT Terracotta tiled terrace, bed/lounger with a cat on it
ALT Densely tiled bathroom in earthy shades, small mosaic tiles. Other page bright yellow.
ALT Chill looking kitchen, deep slab of wood for the counter and a tall chair, more big tiles on the floor, cafe in background where I was reading few doors up from bookstore, hot out today.
ALT 2x4 grid of images shown in that section of the book, a5-ish nice big inner margin and easy to flip through good paper choice.
ALT An introduction to video in email, using Gifs and WebP. This is part two covering video. I’ll be going over file-size, placement, accessibility, making videos for email and trends (mainly around tooling). There’s some extra footage in the video, that I couldn’t show in the slides. Speaker – Anna Yeaman, 20 mins Video content: Introduction Frames Weight Slack 3mb Resolution Multiple WebP AVIF Gmail Secondary LCP No header Lazy loading Player controls Pause, stop, hide Reduced motion Three flashes Type layerRenamer FFmpeg GifGun Motion tools Motion specs Otto Pinterest by DIA Tokyo Dome Video editors TikTok Apple obj. capture Spatial commerce 3D models AI tools
ALT I’ll sometimes create these reduced frame rate animations. This was originally 104 frames out of After Effects, whereas this version is just 12 frames after I rebuilt it in Photoshop. Though typically we want something that’s runs more smoothly, like this Han Kjøbenhavn video. Its 25 frames long, and 4.1 MB.
ALT So to see what’s typical, I saved 100 animations from my inbox and sorted them into 3 groups. 54 out of 100 were cuts, 26 were video, and 20 were keyframe animations. So video and cuts made up the majority at 80%. These were some of the videos I received, and by ‘video’ we’re really referring to Gifs and WebP as most weren’t real HTML5 video.
ALT white text on teal background that says "99.9% of HTML emails tested contain serious or critical accessibility issues" from the 2023 Email Accessibility Report. The email markup consortium logo sits in the lower right corner
ALT plotter materials issue #1 is a chronologically arranged list of materials—papers, pens, and inks—from artists working with digital computers and pen plotters, 1952–2023. It was designed to be a catalogue for practitioners; and more broadly a research aid into materiality. This issue takes the form of a broadside in a nod to futura 13. A 1966 collaboration between Hansjörg Mayer, a concrete poet and publisher, and one of the earliest computer artists, Frieder Nake.
ALT I’ve become a bit of a paper enthusiast in recent years due to an interest in indie magazines and artist books etc., and I studied computer graphics way back so this strangely-niche-subject ticks many of my boxes. Just pleasing myself making a thing I want, our plotter is a modified 3D printer, and I started to collect this info for my own use a few years back and it snowballed. Just in case; a pen plotter is a computer controlled drawing machine, most often with a pen attachment though you can use brushes etc.; it’s driven by code instructions such as pen up and down.
ALT It’s printed on both sides, with paper on one side and pens / inks on the other. Like futura 13, it was designed to function as both pamphlet or poster, with the option to fold back the front flap leaving only the ‘image’.
ALT Bit International New Tendencies journal Nine Issues, 1967–1972 bit no.1 texts by Bense and Moles NT. 5 exhibitions, 1961 –1973 Square format, pink grid pattern on front