Monster Kitchen and Bar is located at Hotel Hotel in Canberra. The 200 seat restaurant meanders through the hotel lobby and ground floor, and is preoccupied with local and seasonal produce prepared for sharing.

U-P designed the identity for Monster applying it to menus, signage and other ephemera. As part of the identity, U-P designed and developed the Monster Kitchen website. U-P uses ZIGZAG designed by Benoît Bodhuin and Courier for the identity.

Screenshot taken at 09/01/19 at 4PM, server power level at 79%

Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content. — Low-tech Magazine

Low-tech Magazine is an online magazine, based in Barcelona. The owners/authors and their very involved readers research how obsolete technology could help solve high-tech problems. By the end of 2018, they launched an ultimate low-tech and solar-powered blog that could replace their current website.

The magazine's masthead used an image of a spear-toting man. On the new blog, this image is evoked/replaced by an arrow symbol. As for the typography, the website uses system fonts. In this case (MacBook), the website uses Times for posts and Courier for reader’s comments. The (minimal) code does not specify these, it only mentions “monospace” for the comments, and nothing at all about the font family for the rest of the text. I assume that the serifs add a bit more black to the screen than if the website would use sans serifs, which means that a tiny bit less energy is needed to light up the screen.

Screenshot taken 28/12/18, 2AM, server power level at 26%.

Screenshot taken 27/12/18 at 10PM, server at 16% power.

Archiving is a natural process. Our brain constantly collects memories and groups them in sections that help us to understand and relate to what surrounds us. We autonomously collect information from dialogues, visual input, actions. For each memory we relate a series of key words and facts.

The website collects all texts that the writer produced and it divides it in keywords and quotes. The users can interact with one or the other side of the archive. The transversal dialogue is aiming to generate new ways to discover the content and information.

Sebastian Groes is a scholar of modern and contemporary literature and culture, writer and musician.

The designer Lennart Van den Bossche used Atlantic by Heavyweight typefoundry to take the reader through the index and titles of this doctoral thesis. The body text is set in Times and every reference to a graphic is set in Courier.

The interior appears to be typewritten, in Courier and a typewriter script.

The encounter with this work might progress somewhat like this: curiosity. About the delicately arranged graphics and charts in homogeneous tones, the organised, clear, animating typography and the consistency of the stylistic means. Tasteful cover, pleasant colours, interaction of all materials. An informative and decorative numerical act.

Then: suspicion. One is overcome by the feeling that the sacred significance of the contents merely serve a graphic virtuoso as a platform for his skills. One is almost tempted to angrily put the book aside, because it is only an ornamental end in itself, a trivial succession of mindless, albeit prettily arranged, graphic claptrap.

But now: magnetisation! The attempt of visualising abstract information, the decoding efforts of the author-designer pay off, if the reader appreciates this work, takes it on himself to decipher the codes and finally ends with admiration and gratitude towards those who have created our constitutional law.

And: this visually didactic commentary also inspires the question whether there is such a thing as the beauty of law.

The Cumquat is a space initiated by Jordan Heng and Patrick Honan to explore creative projects through the loose constraints of sexuality, smut & love. It is also published as a zine.