The LettError Book
LettError received the 2000 Charles Nypels award. A part of the prize is the opportunity to design and produce a booklet about our work. The book is printed and published by Drukkerij Rosbeek.
The pagesize had to conform to the other publications in Rosbeek's goodwill series. The content, design and production was up to us. We took the opportunity to explain something about the relation between design and programming: how writing code can have a place in creative work - graphic design, typography and typedesign.
Tip of the hat to the Charles Nypels Foundation, the Jan van Eijck Academy in Maastricht and Drukkerij Rosbeek in Nuth.
The Exhibit
The Jan van Eyck Academy built a small exhibit for the Charles Nypels award event. Two tables were screened with a subset of the Allsorts diagram. A second set of allsorts type was printed and cut to individual letters. The tables and the letters make great toys to set words in, play domino's, build towers. Of course they also make great party favors: everyone stole a letter or two. Thanks to the people from the steel workshop, the silkscreen workshop and the wood workshop for making the tables and cutting the type.
The LettError exhibit letters.
Contents
- Book/About: About the machine that generated the book.
- Book/Advertising: The sponsor page, or not.
- Book/Allsorts: All LettError characters sorted by height and width.
- Book/Background: An introduction to LettError.
- Book/BitPull: It bends! It stretches! It's BitPull
- Book/BoxFiller: The revenge of the typecace.
- Book/Colophon: Credits and colophon.
- Book/Color: Parameters and color
- Book/Federal: Digital Engraving
- Book/Flipper: Automatic variation
- Book/Graffiti: Computers play with crayons.
- Book/How: How design and programming support each other.
- Book/Jury: The notes of the jury for the Charles Nypels Award 2000.
- Book/RandomFonts: Type with a brain behind its face.
- Book/RobotFonts: Automatic automatic!
- Book/Stamps: Postage design
- Book/Toolspace: Programming and design
- Book/Type: Parameters and Type
- Book/When: Interaction and design
