RafaelFajardo

Category: books

  • Self-Documenting One-Sheet ‘Zine

    Self-Documenting One-Sheet ‘Zine

    I’ve never been good at Christmas cards. In the last ten years or so I’ve taken to making a very small edition of books and distributing them in a spirit of thanks giving. This feels more my speed. In the last couple of years I have found myself without ink for my printer and so…

  • The Buddhist History of Moveable Type Before Gutenberg – Tricycle.org

    Forget Johannes Gutenberg. The first person to ever make a book printed with moveable type was named Choe Yun-ui. — Read on tricycle.org/magazine/buddhist-history-moveable-type/ Here is an addendum to the western narrative that places Gutenberg and Germany at the center of the invention of moveable type and printing of books. I have been looking for a…

  • materializing Helvetica

    materializing Helvetica

    materializing helvetica https://www.instagram.com/p/Bp-nV0ClxDN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=g25gq8jcmjbg

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  • generative books for Do Not Press [•]

    generative books for Do Not Press [•]

    a year ago – December of 2015 – we returned to Denver after a six month sabbatical spent in Central and South America. During the sabbatical I fell out of the pattern of creating an annual thanksgiving Do Not Press edition. In the year since then I have created several small editions but not a…

  • workflow for Do Not Press under Mac OS 10.11.06 El Capitan

    I have found that the workflow I had established to impose pages no longer works under El Capitan. I had been using CreateBooklet as a service embedded within MacOS Preview application. It no longer worked within El Capitan. It would run a process, but show no results anywhere. I’ve updated to the low cost Create…

  • pamphlet bound sketchbook 2013

    pamphlet bound sketchbook 2013

    pamphlet bound sketchbook made from a single folded signature of cotton rag paper, most likely Arches 88. this one is from the fall of 2013. each year — since 2004 — I teach a class to our first year graduate students called Digital Design Concepts. the first project of the first day of class is…

  • rapid physical game design sketchbook

    rapid physical game design sketchbook

    smythe sewn signatures of paper taken from a block of white grid sheets, created sometime between 2010 and 2012.

  • The Artist’s Survival Kit by Keri Smith

    The Artist’s Survival Kit by Keri Smith

    at some point in the last five years I wanted to perform a gift for my sons, to share with them how to bind leafs into a book with Japanese binding. they are both fans of anime and manga, and both have artistic tendencies. it made sense to give them Keri Smith’s The Artist’s Survival…

  • Processing 2.0 Standard Lexicon

    Processing 2.0 Standard Lexicon

    one of the struggles I have with learning a new programming language is that the vocabulary, the lexicon, is typically invisible. this blocks me from knowing what I can express even if I’ve sussed out the pattern of the syntax. I decided to build this artist’s book as tool for myself. this was made in…