Posted by P Bacot on September 02, 2000 at 08:55:42:In Reply to: Artifice Newsletter - 2000.0831 posted by Kevin Matthews on August 31, 2000 at 21:40:02:
Kevin,
I like the new magazine. Maybe someday there can be more and larger Pictures. For now this is all I can handle and they can be viewed larger if you want. The format is relatively fast and easy to read on my usual hi res setting.
Some of the articles like the one by S.S. seem a little like self-promotion. I'd like to see some discussion or editorials on work like hers because she has a strong forum already at FHB etc.(I support her general message but when you look at the pictured designs it seems like NSB houses means a lot of extraneous use of wood paneling and trim. Of course the principles in the text are indeed sound and I look forward to the next book for more of a pattern language. Also the reactionery stance over current excesses or shortcomings of the pulp house market is a little shortsighted. The point is: there is a way and a place to build spacious houses, it just isn't supported by quick and cheap design.)
Are these all exclusive articles or is there some sort of syndicate where you can glean these things? I hope to see an editorial persona emerge, if you will... Some sort of open-minded presence instead of a string of disembodied and unrelated writers and editors like so many industry mags.
I wish the banner ads could be extricated from the form of the publication. When you read magazines and newspapers, the ads are separated from the content in various ways. The website look is a sort of a board with various titles arranged on every page, In the middle is this banner destroying the look of your presentation.
Sorry not to hear much about progress in DW but congratulations on the patent and the new contour machine sounds very good as generally we do have contour lines-- not grid elevations.
Good luck,
Peter