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In the beginning there is always something more than Jack!

Designers are next because Doris can easily control kerning and choose a sign with a litle help from the machine.

I spotted a small corner in the bar, next to the whisky and vodka machine, where there was a screen with someone dressed like a bartender touching it every ten seconds. For me, he was checking every order into the processor and calculating bills.
In the beginning it was strange when the dance area was crowded and everywhere I looked I didn't see a DJ. There were lights blinking and even smoke machines.
Different night, different bar and different people dancing to no DJ. The bartender was again there. Curious I got, and walked to somewhere I could get a clear view to that omnipresent touch-screen. Turns out, that guy was a bartender and a DJ at the same time.

In Holland there are around ten big companies that make DJ software. I know an application that works on Windows XP platform and any personal computer with a touch-screen can run it. The interface is very similar to the one from the more known Traktor DJ Studio and not only bartenders are using it. I witnessed already DJs (that is... guys that don't serve drinks that night) using it. The companies that sell this services do more than programming, or they would stop getting money after every dance-entertainment-business bought one copy. They also establish protocols with the institution that controls copyrights in Holland and every month, in return for specified fees, they mail a new CD-ROM with 400 MP3 tracks to the paying bars.
By using this software, club owners no longer need to waste time looking for the right music to play in their discotheque and, better yet, there is no cocky DJ to pay every night they want dance music. The bartender can easily replace the synchronized beats that keep a "vinyl DJ" so distracted while you are trying to flirt with him. Midi-controler-or-not, playlists-or-not, auto-mix-or-not, random-or-not, everything is possible!-or-not!
It's not possible to play non-authorized songs. And I don't obviously mean autor-authorized, but software-company-and-intellectual-property-institution-authorized. Those systems are connected to the internet and content management is enforced.
For a kid that usually goes out on weekends it's easy to understand what kind of environment does a place normally have just by knowing the brand they use for DJing. "Oh! Fuck... It's Xenox... Lets get out of here."
A regular MP3 CD won't work unless the system is illegally cracked. Even if you want to hear your own music (you produced) and/or the track has no copyright limitation. And if that kind of impediments to free culture are not illegal, they should be. But thats just my opinion and nobody really cared in the first place. So if you just started to think about it, ask for advices.
This is just the beginning.

VEC GRÁFICO | SILENCE

VEC GRÁFICO | NEED MORE SIGNS

VEC GRÁFICO | FLOAT LIKE A LEAF

VEC GRÁFICO | MIND THE 5TYLE

VEC GRÁFICO | TIME STANDS STILL

VEC GRÁFICO | VICTORY IS OURS

VEC GRÁFICO | TRUST THE DESIGNER

VEC GRÁFICO | JUST THINK ABOUT IT

SOB A NEVE

ANTES DA NEVE:

Gostas?

UAU!

Ficou tudo branco enquanto estava no autocarro!

20 minutos bastaram para que os flocos de neve do tamanho de uma tecla Enter cobrissem tudo o que não tivesse movimento. O Albino nunca tinha visto nevar e gostei muito de o ver sorrir comigo. A intervenção cirúrgica do meu pai correu bem e já não tem dores. Era uma fibrose bastante grande na coluna vertebral. A Silvina vem quinta feira. Tenho saudades dela e da televisão. Acho que escangalhei o layout do Fbaup Links sem querer e agora não tenho tempo para o arranjar. Vou fazer T-Shirts de Ana e vamos (VEC) tocar ao vivo dia 15 de Dezembro na escola. Vou passar o Natal e de Ano aqui.

Três Novos Temas de Dança Portuguesa | Three New Portuguese Dance Tracks

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One night with Kaus Wunderlich (not Wurderlich) in Rotterdam

Route Aventura!

Amsterdão: Eu nunca lá estive senão no aeroporto. Defini um percurso (Aventura!) para conhecer de modo mais profundo. Demorarei cerca de 1 hora a percorre-lo uma vez. Mais notícias em breve.

Amsterdam: I have never been there oustide the airport. I defined a path (Aventura!) to get to know in a deeper sense. I will take about an hour to walk the route one time. More news available soon.

School Trip

WEDNESDAY:
Meeting in school with MarK and Mark to go somewhere was the beginning of something quite different. Normally, when a school arranges a more than one-day-stand in a different place, buses are rent so that nobody gets lost.This time we were supposed to be guided by our fellow schoolmates from Den Bosch/Holland to Brussels/Belgium. They had actually never been to the hostel were we stood for four nights but luckely we found Joka, a teacher in Central Sation. We got a strange 40%-traveling-next-to-a-student-train-ticket-discount, and that was good, knowing that we are not considered students here.
We met Bill Easter, Gabrielle and all the other guys from 's Hertogenbosch and Breda after a rough walk through Brussels' red light district.
The first good thing I realized was that there were many young people in that place. People my age were already becoming a strange specie to me. Living outside home it is something that it is not very common around Den Bosch.
We had dinner together, but not before Joka, told a very long dutch story about Belgium political system. We arm-wrestled for a bit in the restaurant and went drinking few beers together in the youth hostel. Bill payed every drink in the pizzeria!

THURSDAY
I woke up drunk after 3 hours of heavy sleep. I knew I had to handle with 9 more hours of poison in my body.
In St. Lukas School of Fine Arts, Joke screamed to me about "basic composition" rules. I got disappointed when she called me lazy for not cutting the poster paper has Toine (another teacher) suggested. I cut it all wrong on purpose afterwards. Bla, Bla, Bla. Funny... and nice work on The Society of the Spectacle (Guy Debord)... Bla, Bla, Bla... Sleeping while others were getting tired.

I woke up with Vika and Mariele leaving to Den Bosch. They left three days earlier by apparently no reason at all (although Vika said she was feeling sick), it seemed to me she was pretty alright.
We (I, Albino, MarK and Mark) had a couple of beers in the bar and planned to build 4 posters until next thursday (beersday). Each one of us have to make a beautiful poster using only typographic elements from Comic Sans. Then we went to bed.

FRIDAY

We were split in groups to visit 4 distinct design studios, and after daylight we got together to discuss about what we've seen. The most interesting atelier was one called Base. Their way of working led into a verbal war over things like professional specification and global awareness. When things got a little bit too hot, they developed the rest of the talk in dutch and I went for a shower upstairs.
Later we went relaxing and had a few warm moments of experience exchanging with some Breda students. The music was horrible all night long and everyone went to bed at three. Albino and Mark kept partying by themselves and went to Fuse. I saved myself to Ricardo Villalobos.

SATURDAY
As Mark and all the other Den Bosch students had left, the last three of us (the two portuguese and MarK) met in La Bourse stairs. We followed our trip to what I imagine it is the arty part of Brussels. We have been into some record/design-toys/T-shirts-etc shops and I got a nice t-shirt to replace the odor charged ones back in the hostel.


I got some time to visit Hospital Cesar de Paepe, not because of its unique type choice for their "House-Style", but because, unfortunetly, a "long time no see" friend from Brussels who lived with me for five months in Porto 4 years ago, was sick. Luckely everything is good now and at the moment I,m writing she has already left the hospital. Check madame la belge Sarah s'il vous plait!


Ricardo Villalobos at Fuse: Fiasco!
The over-crowded dance area and the vanilla sent smoke from the smoke machine were enough too convince anyone to leave. But I stood, believing I could have a little fun dancing to good music after almost two months in the too calm city of Den Bosch.
I realized again of the german minimal techno decadence. I start to believe that dance music has a different audience here in the northern european countries. Allow me to define it has a less lucid public. After five years of Cologne techno dance floors domination, Villalobos shouldn´t be happy when the crowd goes wild every time he drops the bass. There is more to sound than making euphoria out of excited-idiot-techno-pill-heads with slight too subtile tweak moves. We decided to leave after 50 minutes of Ricardo Villalobos. Shame on him... 10 hours later we reached Den Bosch.

Propaganda with Koen: How to make your own record label in one day!

STEP 6: Merchandising and Publicity

STICKER



STICKERS

My last Post(er).

Stay Where You Are.

Maybe you can read it better here:
"I was asked for a graphic design exercise about a specific kind of tourism. I could choose the genre of tourism I was more interested in (as well as the city I wished to work on). It should not be about me. Tourism without holidays, I chose.
Our options should always be related to us (in a big way) even when our teachers and clients say us to think like the general public. I know now, autonomy is our finest prison.
We can say that modernist rules gave us more freedom than this recent un–idealistic world. Achieving neutrality is an eternal failed goal. We feel that failure as well as journalists and judges do.

Most people that buy touristic postcards or any other product made to entertain, do not wonder about the time A designer took to learn how to pick the right type to that piece of paper. They do not care because most people can design for their own business card, phd final work and chinese restaurant.
The consumer doubts because the consumer has a personal computer and printer that enables him to design a tourism postcard as easily as a designer's beautiful apple computer can.
Designers can now be part of an huge evolution as opinion makers while organizing discourse by committing to the transparency of the big process in which design is involved.
Finally, the hippies got something they wanted.

Occidental post-modern society is living its last senseless times. Information society allows the consumer/producer to get a glimpse of honesty.

Rotterdam is good for street shopping,
but you can also visit those yellow cubic houses for €1.80.

Thank you for your attention.
The designer, João Marrucho."

Now, with more space between the letters (characters were, one by one, scaled to 95% of the original poster type size (and I know there is an easy way)):