Quinn Daedal@tsmullaney.bsky.social at #FaceInterface "Privilege is the ability to move onto cooler problems", in the context of digitally-disadvantaged languages. For English we can worry about VR/AR, color fonts, etc. Most languages still need basic OCR/HTR/NLP. #MultilingualDH
Eason Lu passed around a souvenir example of Nüshu script / 3rd day letter (with some embroidery on the cover! #DHmakes #FaceInterface #MultilingualDH
TypographicaOne thing that makes #FaceInterface a unique conference: despite participants hailing from many different disciplines (engineering, design, linguistics), almost everyone here knows by heart the difference between “character” and “glyph”.
(Maybe the Unicode Conference is the only other example.)
Letterform ArchiveNow at #FaceInterface, Eason Lu on "The Battle of Nüshu, or, how do we encode a performative script?" In 1982, Chinese anthropologists went to Hunan, found a script written, embroidered, and most importantly, *performed*, by women only.
More on Nüshu from @lisahuang’s 2021 Letterform Lecture: https://letterformarchive.org/events/view/nueshu-a-script-created-by-self-educated-women-in-a-remote-region-of-china/
Just shown by @johndberry at #FaceInterface is an unusual example of multilingual typography: Tea Room: Abode of Fancy, Vacancy and the Unsymmetrical by Yasutomo Ota. We have a copy and it’s available in our Online Archive: https://oa.letterformarchive.org/item?workID=lfa_visuallanguage_0007&targPic=lfa_visuallanguage_0007_006.jpg
@martabernstein’s #FaceInterface talk was a rare peek into something all of us do, but we rarely reveal: *how* we research. It should be a 20 min tutorial for every designer.
Gerui Wang at #FaceInterface speaking on the undesirable conformity of AI, using the example of traditional Chinese calligraphy and its need for originality and variation.
John @TiroTypeworks Hudson at #FaceInterface with an excellent point about libraries: catalogs are useful, but librarians are essential. A catalog could not identify the books he needed for his project. Only a librarian with deep knowledge of the collection could guide him.
This is close to our hearts. https://letterformarchive.org/visit/research-visits/
Research Visits | Letterform Archive
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Q&A and break give me a chance to put down the #FaceInterface live posting keyboard and make some progress on the current embroidery. #DHmakes
Design BrouhahaThe Face / Interface conference at Stanford University is just going to start! Go grab a free online ticket to watch it!
#faceinterface #stanford #typedesign #inclusivity #endangeredlanguages
