The making of ‘het kan hooguit mislukken’
The brief
Design a word/phrase you appreciate/funny/ weird in the Dutch language. Design the text and add a translation and a brief explanation. Print at least 15 copies in your favourite printing technique on A5 size oriantation and paper choice free.
The concept
The phrase that I use quit a lot to convince myself or others to do stuff that is dificult /exciting/challenging or to try out stuff that you nerver done before. 'het kan hooguit mislukken’ the worst thing that can happen is the it can fail.
How to design?
at the moment my favourite printing technique or more my favourite printer is a daisywheel printer that I found on marktplaats and picked up last year (2022) the brand is Brother and the type is em-701fx it’s from the nighties.
It uses a daisy like wheel that prints letters on paper though impact mostly know for the use in typewriters. I also find a daisywheel typewriter with a printer connection. This one I going to use for this edition.
It is a challenge is to make a design if you only aloud to uses letters the Typewriter has on its daisywheel. I was thinking about some kind of code. I always liked html with css. So I a designed a page in html with inline css very basic simple white on black. To annoy graphic designers it is alway fun to use comic sans as a font.
This design reminds me at the first publication station logo it only needs a 🌈 gradient. That’s easy to do in css so I did.
Proof print
Now I have one text file so let’s print. I have a laptop with Linux installed the and the typewriter instals as line printer. The command ’lpr -P’ sends the file to the printer and the starts printing. The printer did not print the ‘<>’ karakters so it wasn’t possible to print the complete html file.
Other options to consider print it with a matrixprinter but that’s not as cool as the daisywheel or in letterpress . I really want to use the daisywheel. Print with out ‘<>’ ? At it later with pen. Or replace the <> with other characters? Not an option for me so I come up with a pseudo code I stripped al the tags and adjust I so if it is as a machine could render the code.
