Now Becomes Then

A forty-page, large format algorithmic broadsheet publication to mark twenty-five years of brendandawes.com.

Since 2000 brendandawes.com has been my corner of the web where I share my work, code, process and observations to the outside world. It’s a place of 
experimentation and place which I own and control without the external 
interference of corporate algorithms or the pressures of social media.

 This publication is a celebration of that space, hi-lighting some of the work I’ve 
created over the years. 



This forty-page broadsheet publication features algorithmically made “sculptures” which act as visual souvenirs of some of my projects over the years. Rendered over the top in the Warbler typeface are haikus, made by feeding the project text into a locally running large language model. The compositions are created in TouchDesigner.

I use both Warbler and Lab DJR on my site and love them equally. There’s something about Warbler which seems to speak of a softer, calmer time.