Category: Glossary

1. the performance of actions without conscious thought or intention.

   “diabetic patients who commit crimes while hypoglycemic may be able to plead automatism”

   • an action performed unconsciously or involuntarily.

     plural noun: automatisms

     “automatisms occurred in all four epileptic syndromes”
   • ART

     the avoidance of conscious intention in producing works of art, especially by using mechanical techniques or subconscious associations.

French for “popular workshop,” the renegade print workshop established at Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts during nationwide protests in France in May 1968. The workshop created new images daily to respond to events.

The posters produced by the ATELIER POPULAIRE are weapons in the service of the struggle and are an inseparable part of it. Their rightful place is in the center of the conflict. To use them for decorative purposes, to display them in bourgeois places of culture or to consider them as objects of aesthetic interest is to impair both their function and their effect.

1. clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.

   “The style is not free from the artifices of the period”

Lorem ipsum, in a graphical and textual context, refers to filler text that is placed in a document or visual presentation. Lorem ipsum is derived from the Latin “Dolores Ipsum” roughly translated as “pain itself.” Lorem ipsum presents the sample font and orientation of writing on Web pages and other software applications where content is not the main concern of the developer.

Widows and Orphans are lines of text that appear at the beginning or end of a paragraph, which is left alone at the top or bottom of a line. There is some debate about the exact definitions of these terms but as a rule of thumb:

• Orphan: A is a single word or very short line, that appears at the end of a paragraph or the beginning of a column or a page, separated from the rest of the text.

The ascender is the portion of a lowercase letter that extends above the mean line of a font (the x-height). On the other hand, the descender is the portion of a letter that extends below the baseline of a font.

noun Printing.

Kerning refers to the spacing between the characters of a font. Without kerning, each character takes up a block of space and the next character is printed after it. When kerning is applied to a font, the characters can vertically overlap. This does not mean that the characters actually touch, but instead it allows part of two characters to take up the same vertical space.

(adjective)

: marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course

“The ebola outbreak in Africa was very Virulent”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/virulent

(noun)

: of, relating to, or characteristic of Draco or the severe code of laws held to have been framed by him

“Draconian measures may be put in place to provide stability”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/draconian