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  • Lotte Woerde
  • Url: http://www.lotontwerpt.nl
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  • About the user: Lotte Woerde graduated as a graphic designer at Willem de Kooning Art Academy and finished her BA in Television Studies at UvA. Since 2005 she is running her own graphic design company, called Lot concept & ontwerp bno, based in Amsterdam. As an independent graphic designer Lotte worked together with creative media companies like Glamcult Studio, Technicolor and NOS. Her area of interest concerns the intersection between new media and design concepts and solutions. Currently she is a MA student of New Media.

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Interacticipation: Ten Artworks Reflecting the Status of Contemporary Participation in New Media Art

Lotte Woerde | 24 February 2011, 9:34 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Interactive art is a genre of art in which the viewers participate in a way by providing an input in order to determine the outcome (Wikipedia, 2011a). In other words, it allows a dialogue between the artwork and the viewer. Although the history of interactive art goes back to the fifth century B.C. according to the new media artist and…

I heart Illustrator

Lotte Woerde | 24 October 2010, 9:23 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

My first experience with Inkscape

Ever since I started Art Academy in 2000 I use Adobe’s vector graphics software program Illustrator to create logo’s, cards, brochures, posters and other kinds of hard-copy. But although I find it a great piece of software, Illustrator is an expensive product. It alone costs €855,61. Because of this, and also because of…

The Future of Magazine Publishing in the digital age

Lotte Woerde | 21 October 2010, 3:22 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

In fact, magazines were pioneers in niche content before cable TV and the Internet came along and usurped them with the flashy video of the former and the interactive communities of the latter. (Glaser, 2005)

It is no longer obvious that magazine content is delivered in the format of a paper journal. Although everyone still reads paper magazines, most people…

Twitter, one big cocktail-party. Just go with the flow.

Lotte Woerde | 12 October 2010, 4:56 pm | tags: , , , ,

In stead of most media, I couldn’t use Twitter right away, I had to learn it. It took me three attempts to learn Twitter. The first time I started using it as myself, @lottewoerde. I tweeted things like: “doing the dishes”, “sitting in the sun” or “tired, need a vacation”.  Unfortunately no one was responding my humble messages, and I…

And the winner is…

Lotte Woerde | 05 October 2010, 4:38 pm | tags: , ,

This week I took my fist shaky steps on the Wikipedia. I was supposed to because of this week’s assignment, but I wasn’t quite enthusiastic. Wikipedia barbarian as I was, I thought it would be quite easy to create and edit pages. I was thus a little bit laconic about it. Before this week, I never understood people…

Storytelling as a captivating business model

Lotte Woerde | 26 September 2010, 11:11 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Last week Dutch artist Dennis Sibeijn found out that someone had used his work ‘Truth’ (left) in a competition in Taiwan and actually won. The Taiwanese student who stole the image had not even bothered to edit it it, he just used it right away. Ironically enough, the theme of the design contest was the protection of copyright in design.

Book Review: Inherend Vice, bootleg history of videotape and copyright. By Lucas Hilderbrand.

Lotte Woerde | 21 September 2010, 4:02 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

Since I grew up in the eighties, the complete history of videotape which this book starts off with made me visit places I passed a long time ago. At moments the recognition was instantly. For instance I recollect a Monday morning in the early nineties, when I was about ten years old. We were sitting in a circle in classroom.…

Augmented Reality through the appearance of a little green man

Lotte Woerde | 12 September 2010, 5:48 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

Meet Proto. This little green man appeared on my hand today when I was about to write this blog post. Off course he didn’t ‘just’ appear to me like the virgin Mary. His arrival was caused by an almost magic collaboration between my webcam, Flash, and the use of a symbol printed on ordinairy paper.