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Scriptographer, by Jurg Lehni has received consistent updates throughout the year, all of which are incredibly fun and interesting. There has also been upgrades which now allow you to implement all of the available scripts on Adobe CS5.

Above: The Poster Machine, a poster designed by Jonathan Puckey with Roel Wouters using the Crumpler script; a script that lets you treat vectors like paper.

Above: Road script by Jonathan Puckey

More about Scriptographer:

Scriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator™. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language.

The user is no longer limited to the same tools that are used by most graphic designers around the globe. Scriptographer allows the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools, effects that modify existing graphics and scripts that create new ones.

But Scriptographer is also a webpage on which users can exchange scripts and ideas.

Scriptographer gives the tool back into the hand of the user and confronts a closed product with the open source philosophy.

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Follow Scriptographer on Twitter, or donate.

Using After Effects and Illustrator, designer Jeroen Krielaars of the Dutch firm Calango created Moshun, an animated typeface. Contact info@calango.nl to use it on your next project.

Moshun from Jeroen Krielaars on Vimeo.

link via @spigumus

Watch the full episode on PBS Nova: Absolute Zero

Zummertapez: Jesse McLean
@Roots & Culture gallery
1034 N. Milwaukee Ave / Chicago
8:00 pm
$5 suggested donation

On Sunday, Aug 29, Jesse McLean will present a video mixtape at Roots & Culture as part of the Zummertapez series. In this mixtape, entitled “Mind Magic,” a collection of screen gems are strategically interwoven with selections from McLean’s work (including sneak peaks at a new piece), enabling the viewer to ply the delicate line between illusion and reality that is the human psyche. Join us as together we attempt to map the mind and conjure the inexplicable using outtakes, bloopers and plenty of tricks.(Criss Angel in person.)

Zummertapez invites filmmakers and video artists to create a collage mixtape, combining their own work with things that have influenced them. The end result is a more social and entertaining artist talk that allows the filmmaker to show their work set amongst both cinema classics and little-known gems.

Featuring:
Mike Perry
Dan Funderburgh
DJ Jobot (Jojo Yang)

@Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington, Chicago, IL
7:00 - 9:00 pm

Read more about the entire series here.

We’re super excited that our very own Renata Graw is on the judging panel for this year’s STA ARCHIVE ‘10 along with Jessica Hische, Maria Grillo, Steve Hartman and Terry Marks.
Come by and meet her in person tomorrow.

Thursday, August 26 from 6–9pm

Landmark Grill + Lounge
1633 N Halsted Street
 www.landmarkgrill.net

Members—$25
Non-Members—$40
 Students—$15

via Mashable: A new Google Maps-based web app has placemarks for major locations mentioned in hip hop lyrics, plus the inside story behind each place and the song that named it.

from MetropolisMag: Irma Boom’s Visual Testing Ground
The internationally acclaimed book designer talks about her craft…

“Irma Boom is the Dutch master of this quiet craft. Over the past fifteen years she’s created books on Vitra furniture, Ferrari cars, Camper shoes, and Dutch buildings. Her book on the work of textile designer Sheila Hicks, Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor, was named “Most Beautiful Book in the World” at the 2007 Leipzig Book Fair. Taking a break one evening to talk with Metropolismag.com, Boom breaks the habit of her usually meek profession to discuss American design schools, the problem with “clients,” and the book in the age of the Internet.” Read Full Interview…

(link via KK)

Thanks to Jeremiah for setting me up with the Plural blog — just a quick introduction, my name is Seth Hoekstra, and I’ve been an interning designer with Plural since the beginning of Summer. I’ll occasionally be making posts in relation to interests and studio work. That aside; i’d like to introduce a book that has gained much of my attention lately. Please see the links for further reading, and purchasing.

Produced by Metahaven, a dutch design practice founded by Daniel van der Velden, and Vinca Kruk. Uncorporate Identity combines a great balance of design, writing, and research, making it one of the most thought-provoking pieces of design-related literature I have found as a student. Highly recommended to anyone interested in “visual identity” in regards to culture, politics, and possibilities.

“A compendium of ideas and a source for debate, Uncorporate Identity is an adventurous collection of design projects around visual identity and politics. It presents the visual projects and writings of design studio Metahaven, along with a host of contributing writers. Organized as a sequence of five chapters, each comprising case studies, notes and essays, it explores, visually and textually, the paradoxes of identity in a networked world.”

Published by Lars Muller, 2010. Also available via Amazon.

It has been quite the summer here at Plural. We are working on a ton of exciting new projects that we will be sharing with you all shortly. The site will be updated in September. Until then, see some of our new work here and on Twitter. Here’s a Bradley lecture series poster and a Herculaneum record cover that we just finished this week.