A conversation with Tom Lechner
We discovered the work of Tom Lechner at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels. Tom has traveled from Portland, US to present Laidout, an amazing tool that he made to produce his own comic books and also to work on three dimensional mathematical objects …
Over at the Libre Graphics Research Unit we are preparing a second 'Research Meeting' that will take place in Brussels from 22 to 25 February 2012. Developers, designers and theoreticians from all over Europe will gather to imagine future Libre Graphics tools together. The theme for this particular edition is …
A conversation with Asheesh Laroia
Our conversation took place at the last day of the Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in Montreal, a day after the panel 'How to keep and make productive libre graphics projects?'. Asheesh had responded rather sharply to someone in the audience who remarked that only a …
"Go into the kitchen and open the first drawer you come to and the odds
are you'll find the wooden spoon that is used to stir soups and sauces.
If this spoon is of a certain age you will see it no longer has its
original shape. It has changed …
Taking it's inspiration from the Bauhaus Vorkurs ((Itten, Johannes.
Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus. New York: Van Nostrand
Reinhold)), Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg wrote Digital
Foundations
((http://www.blog.digital-foundations.net)),
a textbook for teaching software to designers and artists. Their idea
was to not …
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Gaffer-tape galore at the ULB-campus again, it is that time …
Finally... How to choose and install ~~four~~ three new distributions
Since announcing that it was time for a new adventure, colleagues and friends have advised me what to install and why (see notes below). In the last few weeks I tried to follow up on their tips and I have …
Excellent post by Troy Sobotka explaining why designers should collaborate with Free Software projects and stop responding to contests:
"We need a round table interaction where literature, art, design, philosophy, psychology, and sociology can be engaged. We need a cross pollination of creative fields and studies. We need to have …
Dear Ubuntu,
A few weeks ago I needed to re-install my computer. Using the convenient Startup Disk Creator, I prepared a USB-stick with a fresh version of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx, rebooted the computer and clicked 'install'. While the Ubuntu slide-show took my mind off the wait and the …
Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to 'Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win'. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random …
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