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sketch.

Is it possible to let a first sketch become an object, to design directly onto space? The four FRONT members have developed a method to materialise free hand sketches. They make it possible by using a unique method where two advanced techniques are combined.Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture. 

dim.

This is a logo design I made last year for the baroque orchestra I play in. The orchestra's name is 'Les amis de Loeillet de Gant'. Actually, Loeillet de Gant was a baroque composer from Ghent, where the orchestra is based. 'Loeuillet' in French is the word for carnation, a flower also known as Dianthus Caryophyllus. I picked this idea up and was inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh's rose and the shapes of glass-in-lead: geometrical yet fluid at the same time, which I think characterises baroque music very well (imagine the 'mathematic emotion' of Bach, for example). Baroque music was actually very modern at its time, so the accompanying typeface I chose is Avenir: a geometric but 'friendly' typeface that expresses modernity.

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