One brilliant thing about living in London is I can now actually go to all the cool events I hear about last minute on twitter. I say all, of course I mean just one so far, the DIY Digital Type workshop run by jotta.com at the Design Museum on Saturday as part of Intel’s (and jotta’s) Remastered project.
The Remastered idea itself is very cool, a project that invited 12 current artists and designers to come up with a new take on classic works of art, including works by Picasso, Leonardo Da Vinci, William Turner and Edvard Munch. The website is definitely worth checking out and I really hope they bring the exhibition back to London as some of the work looks awesome.
Anyways, on to the day itself…
The workshop itself was good fun if slightly underwhelming. It promised that’d we “remaster type for the digital age” and I’m pretty sure we didn’t achieve anything like that, but we get to muck about with conductive paint, drawing letterforms and hooking them up to 9v batteries. I also learnt a few typographic facts that I didn’t know before, like that Steve Jobs designed the font Georgia, but the most interesting thing was the demonstration of an Arduino board, a very cool, open-source powered, mini-computer that can be programmed with C++ to do basic commands and interact with circuits.
All in all I had a great afternoon getting my hands dirty doing something I’d never normally try so for that it was worth the totally FREE entry fee! I also got a bit high off the fumes from the conductive paint. Thanks jotta, hope you keep putting on stuff like this.
Enough talk you want photos right?
Cool blog!