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    Don’t read

    September 12, 2011 Co-position, El Lissitzky, lay-out, LGRU, Proun, Python, Samedies, Scribus, Vocabulary

    Exercise for next week:

    "From the phrase Don't read, a line extends horizontally and then angles diagonally downward to the word Take, from which extend three short lines that connect the words paper, rods, blocks to the rest of the phrase. To the right of this cluster is the phrase, set them out, color, build"

    [Description of About Two Squares (instruction page), El Lissitzky’s revolutionary children’s book. In: Margolin, Victor. The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy Nagy, The University of Chicago Press, 1997]

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    Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
    by Allen B. Downey

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    [The Open Source DTP application Scribus can be automated via a scripting API using Python. Booklet: The F*cking Manual, by OSP]

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