A collaborative book making installation.
At Longhand Publishers, visitors are invited to design pages for small publications that are being produced on the spot. People can create pages on 3 design workstations that were built using custom software and electronics. Every book that is being produced is completely unique, 'printed' on the spot by a home made drawing machine.
Longhand Publishers is an open playground: a set of possibilities and a set of constraints.
Designed and built at indianen with Andreas Depauw.
With the kind support of Graphic Design Festival Breda.
Special thanks to Chris Depauw.
Technical Details:
Custom software built in C++ with Open Frameworks
firmware for electronics programmed in C with Arduino.
CONTEXT
Inhabitants of Breda reading the newspaper posted on the windows of the printers building.
MacPaint was drawing software released with the original Apple Macintosh personal computer in 1984. MacPaint was notable because it could generate graphics that could be used by other applications.
The original MacPaint was developed by Bill Atkinson, a member of Apple's original Macintosh development team.
