because all media are new4D media 3 | concrete poetry helloWorld Visit the sample site here > Say hello to the sample site Hello World has become a tradition in programming: it’s the first program you write in a new language. First mentioned in a tutorial to the B programming language, it was popularized in a 1978 book introducing The C… read more »
4D media 3 | concrete poetry sftp Adobe Dreamweaver’s inscrutable connect-to-remote-server icon SFTP: the other protocol Have you ever wondered what HTTP or HTTPS means in a web address? It’s called a protocol, and in simplified terms, it’s there to allow a server (where the website lives) and a client (the device attempting access to… read more »
4D media 3 | concrete poetry webOrigins Sticker identifying a computer, used by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, as the world’s first web server: “This machine is a server. DO NOT POWER IT DOWN!!“ Web origins Where did the World Wide Web come from? Some might say from the mind, and the server seen above,… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z ABCnimation Sterno alphabet, from a studio by the author Animate the alphabet Synthesize your knowledge of e-typography, web file options, sophisticated web graphics, and animation in a project that reinvents the alphabet as a new image. Concept What kind of alphabet do you want to design? Do you want to… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z webAnimation Download sample files: GIF: Muybridge GIF + transparency: Catherine Wheel APNG, WEBP, AVIF + transparency : Bouncing Ball Creating web-ready animation files This set of simple exercises focuses on the creation of animated graphic file types. GIF files are the most common of these to find on the Web… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z wordImages Download sample files: JPG: Nevermind PNG: 1984 SVG: So Wet Word images When words and images are placed near each other in a composition, a relationship is formed between the two elements. In addition to formal properties, both words and images are loaded with meanings. Words have verbal or literal meanings… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z webGraphics Download sample file here Creating web-ready graphics Now that we know about graphic file types, how do we get a graphic image out of, say, TIFF, PSD, or AI and into a web-appropriate file type? How do we make decisions about resizing files, and most importantly, proper choices for… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z fileTypes Download sample file here File types and asset management for web graphics There are about 2000 multimedia assets embedded or linked in newMediaWiki that help it tell the tale of digital media for artists. Each one has an extension that lets the computer know what file type the asset… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z eTypography Typesetting tools for movable type. From Wikimedia Commons. eTypography Type spec’ing and setting Before the desktop publishing revolution, type specification and typesetting was a laboriously hand-crafted affair. In his illuminating blog post on The Lost Art of Type Spec’ing, font designer Mark Simonson says: We are so spoiled nowadays. We… read more »
4D media 2 | a2z alphaBravo Jasper Johns, Colored Alphabet, 1959 Alpha Bravo The advent of airplane warfare in the first half of the 20th century ushered in the widespread use of radio communication in navigation. Between static on the radio and the sounds of battle, the garbled “b” versus “d” sound in a message containing… read more »