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A coalition of international guilds for animators, screenwriters, and actors protest “artificial intelligence” at the Annecy Animation Film Festival:

“The technology is a vehicle for exploitation. It’s a vehicle to extract data that people have worked their entire lives to create, they put everything into that data. It’s not just data. Data is such a reductive word, but unfortunately that is how it can be exploited. So don’t listen to them.”

https://deadline.com/2025/06/annecy-ai-protest-animation-guilds-1236431752/

Animation, Writers & Actors Guilds Hold “Historic” Anti-Generative AI Protest At Annecy: “GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them”

Int'l Animation Guilds Hold "Historic" Anti- Generative AI Protest At Annecy: "GenAI Seeks Not To Support Artists, But To Destroy Them"

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Carlo Grosoli May 19

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Nick Sherman Feb 25

… By the way, @SophieWietlisbach’s new book, ‘Impact Type’, is quite impressive, even before reading any of the text. It’s about making type for typewriters in Switzerland from 1941–1997, and features tons of great historical material.
https://www.triest-verlag.ch/en/produkte/buch-26/design-140/impact-type-3039

Shipping isn’t cheap (at least to the USA, which cost more than twice the book itself) so you may want to do a group order with friends. But it seems like a book I would have otherwise regretted not ordering right away.

Impact Type

→ Book launch: February 19, 2025, as part of the symposium «Automatic Type 3» at the ANRT, Nancy (France) • History and significance of the Swiss typewriter type manufacturers by Caractères SA, Setag, and Novatype • A Swiss history of industry and typography – beautifully illustrated with numerous previously unpublished documents • #5 of the Visual Archives series, in cooperation with ECAL Three Swiss companies manufactured type for typewriters between the 1940s and 1990s: Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype. For over fifty years, they supplied leading office machine manufacturers in Europe and around the world, including Remington, IBM, Olivetti, Paillard-Hermes and Triumph-Adler. These three companies, which held a major position on the world market, were instrumental in the creation, development and manufacture of type components and typefaces for typewriters, and indeed for impact printers in general. These visually distinctive typefaces occupy a significant place on today’s typographic landscape. This volume, with its detailed portraits of Caractères SA, Setag and Novatype, explores the history behind these typefaces and the historical context in which they were produced. It offers fascinating insights into the global impact type industry. When the three Swiss factories closed in the 1990s, most of their archives were destroyed. As a result, this research quickly turned into a very detailed investigation aiming to document this period of history by means of primary sources. This publication brings together the fruits of several years of research in numerous locations to reveal previously unpublished image material and cast a spotlight on a little-known chapter in industrial and typographic history, both locally and internationally. With texts by Sophie Wietlisbach, a preface by Roland Früh and a postface by Davide Fornari.

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Carlo Grosoli Feb 18

I want to thank @beep for sharing this indispensable essay by @mia and I want to deeply thank her, Miriam Eric Suzanne, for the time and the intellectual effort spent writing such an important critique. I read it once, I'm going to read it several times more (as well as Marcotte suggested).
I'm Italian, so: grazie mille! 🙏
https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

Tech continues to be political

And the politics aren't looking great

Miriam Eric Suzanne

Carlo Grosoli Feb 18

Ethan Marcotte Feb 16

You absolutely owe it to yourself to read @mia’s post on “artificial intelligence”, eugenics, and the tech industry’s push to ally itself to an explicitly fascist project: https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

Tech continues to be political

And the politics aren't looking great

Miriam Eric Suzanne

Carlo Grosoli Feb 18

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Ethan Marcotte Feb 16

Quoting any section of @mia’s incredible essay feels like I’m doing it a disservice; I’ve read it several times, and I expect I’ll read it at least a few more.

With all that said, this is the section that I’m thinking about right now.

https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/

Tech continues to be political

And the politics aren't looking great

Miriam Eric Suzanne

Carlo Grosoli Feb 11

In the Airtight Garage by Moebius there is a vignette that inspired me to a typical urban club scene, where everyone is crowded together drinking, ordering drinks, and trying to talk despite the din of the music, and I imagined myself there completely out of place.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DDiKS2ZNnT0/
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Carlo Grosoli on Instagram: "FUN BEFORE DINNER: New Year Party 2025 - In the Airtight Garage by Moebius there is a vignette that particularly struck me, and it is the one in which Major Grubert decides to go and look for Cornelius in person, accesses the Second Level, and passes through a gathering where "the sacred songs of Chiram" are being listened to. The scene presents a mass of different overlapping figures with both human and alien features, without perspective. There is a number painted on the wall in the background, and only a line from Major Grubert trying to make his way through. It seems particularly interesting to me, because it is flatter and therefore more graphic. As soon as I saw it, it inspired me to a typical urban club scene, where everyone is crowded together drinking, ordering drinks, and trying to talk despite the din of the music, and I imagined myself completely out of place, because I actually don't care anymore about going out to drink badly and have my ears tortured by music that I didn't choose. But what I hoped to be able to draw was that it wasn't so obvious who my alter ego was in the panel, and that the line could be said by any of the characters. I also hoped to come close to Moebius's drawing style, but this is almost impossible, right? - SEMI-FUN FACTS: / Two of the girls do exist and are actually sisters. / There's a boy with extreme skin insertions and a tatoo around his neck. / The girl with headphones could be one I liked decades ago, but she was very arrogant. / Big man’s tattoo is inspired by graphic designer Art Chantry’s one. / I met more than one punk with that spikey hair. / There's a punkish girl in search for love who talks a lot. / There's a mix between Rick Rubin and a punk from the Ken Shiro series. / That cap is branded Appennini Tortellini @appenninitortellini - MUSIC: This song by Rita Coolidge gives the perfect 80s pathetic and sad vibe like a pointless night in a club. - Fun Before Dinner is broadcast by Carlo Grosoli whenever he can, but mostly before eating and drinking. - #illustration #comix #comics #comicart #digitalart #drawing #moebius #jeangiraud #funbeforedinner"

2 likes, 0 comments - carlogrosoli on December 13, 2024: "FUN BEFORE DINNER: New Year Party 2025 - In the Airtight Garage by Moebius there is a vignette that particularly struck me, and it is the one in which Major Grubert decides to go and look for Cornelius in person, accesses the Second Level, and passes through a gathering where "the sacred songs of Chiram" are being listened to. The scene presents a mass of different overlapping figures with both human and alien features, without perspective. There is a number painted on the wall in the background, and only a line from Major Grubert trying to make his way through. It seems particularly interesting to me, because it is flatter and therefore more graphic. As soon as I saw it, it inspired me to a typical urban club scene, where everyone is crowded together drinking, ordering drinks, and trying to talk despite the din of the music, and I imagined myself completely out of place, because I actually don't care anymore about going out to drink badly and have my ears tortured by music that I didn't choose. But what I hoped to be able to draw was that it wasn't so obvious who my alter ego was in the panel, and that the line could be said by any of the characters. I also hoped to come close to Moebius's drawing style, but this is almost impossible, right? - SEMI-FUN FACTS: / Two of the girls do exist and are actually sisters. / There's a boy with extreme skin insertions and a tatoo around his neck. / The girl with headphones could be one I liked decades ago, but she was very arrogant. / Big man’s tattoo is inspired by graphic designer Art Chantry’s one. / I met more than one punk with that spikey hair. / There's a punkish girl in search for love who talks a lot. / There's a mix between Rick Rubin and a punk from the Ken Shiro series. / That cap is branded Appennini Tortellini @appenninitortellini - MUSIC: This song by Rita Coolidge gives the perfect 80s pathetic and sad vibe like a pointless night in a club. - Fun Before Dinner is broadcast by Carlo Grosoli whenever he can, but mostly before eating and drinking. - #illustration #comix #comics #comicart #digitalart #drawing #moebius #jeangiraud #funbeforedinner".

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Letterform Archive Feb 11

Santi Pozzi, Prietto Viaja Al Cosmos Con Mariano at Zaguan Sur, Buenos Aires, 2013.

¡Gracias to Santi Pozzi for his recent donation of seven screen printed gig posters! We can’t wait to put these on the table next to Wilson, Moscoso, and MacLean.

#Psychedelic #Posters #Screenprint #SantiPozzi #Argentina

Carlo Grosoli Jan 27

Nick Sherman Jan 23

10 years ago today I published my article “Variable Fonts for Responsive Design” at A List Apart:
https://alistapart.com/blog/post/variable-fonts-for-responsive-design/

I was very happy when, a year and a half later, the OpenType specification was updated to support variable fonts.

Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time making and working with variable fonts, including building up the https://v-fonts.com directory (now sadly out of date).

There have been bumps in the road, but it’s been satisfying to see the technology spread over time.

Variable Fonts for Responsive Design

Today’s web fonts are not living up to their potential. What if the stylistic parameters of a typeface were fluidly variable? What if the design of a typeface could be as flexible and responsive as…

A List Apart

Carlo Grosoli Jan 27

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Nick Sherman Jan 23

… My “Variable Fonts for Responsive Design” article from 10 years ago followed an even older article I published almost 12 years ago now, titled “Font Hinting and the Future of Responsive Design”, also at A List Apart:
https://alistapart.com/column/font-hinting-and-the-future-of-responsive-typography/

The ideas from that article are a bit more optimistic and still haven’t been totally realized. The closest thing we have to it now is automatic optical size adjustments with variable web fonts, but even that situation is still quite messy.

Font Hinting and the Future of Responsive Typography

Font hinting has been the source of countless headaches for type designers and users. In the meantime, some of the most fundamental and important elements of typography still can’t be addressed wit…

A List Apart

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