For the Libre Graphics Meeting, taking place May 4-6 in Montreal, Canada, OSP members Harrisson and Femke will speak about FLOSS and design: Relaying Systems - Why designers should be interested in FLOSS. The programme is here!
Articles by Femke 
Monopolios Artificiales sobre Bienes Intangibles
Nomade, an Argentinian group of artists using Free Software, just finished a printed publication on intellectual property, plus a detailed tour through the process: http://nomade.liminar.com.ar/wakka.php?wakka=MaBI&v=der
Included: design sketches, illustrations, description of the pre-press process, final pdf's and a html version …
Deadline March 14, 2007 at 11:59 PM PST
The Open Font Library (OFL.o) needs a logo to help identify their project. They want the community to help create this logo and three judges from the OFL.o will select the winning logo which they will use in all of their branding.
Logos need to be submitted in …
Use-ability
At the FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting) conference in Brussels, two openSuse developers presented their research on usability of KDE desktops.
Their testing methods consists of interviews, questionnaires, screen recordings plus precise video documentation of a group of 10 people trying to accomplish 12 tasks using various …
Mute Magazine: open soon
Mute Magazine develops Open Source software, and has recently installed Ubuntu on all office machines. Now they want to move their lay-out away from QuarkXpress too.
Last week, Simon Worthington and Darron Broad from Mute came over to discuss the project. First of all we will need to make sure …
Watch this thread: The color of ideas
A widely used proprietary color-system such as Pantone, obviously raises questions for Open Source graphic tools. Gregory Pittman writes:* Obviously, no one, including Pantone, can copyright a color, and especially in these days where the RGB/CMYK color systems are freely usable -- ie, you can't put a claim on RGB …
FOSS and the Commercial Print World
Craig Bradney and Peter Linnell discuss the future of Free and Open Source Software for commercial printing:
Right now, I would say the biggest weakness from an FOSS point of view is there are few good high quality fonts. It is one of those areas which requires tremendous amounts of …
In Print
Contribution by De Geuzen in Open magazine about Travail Mobile, a workshop for Digitales.After theCrash Test-post a few month ago, finally pictures of the result!
Thanks to Peter Linnell (one of the main Scribus developers), who after I posted about some Postscript troubles to the Scribus mailinglist, came …
Tools of the trade
Conversation with Ricardo Lafuente
Ricardo Lafuente looks at the way typography, (open source) tools and design economies feed off and into each other. In a few weeks he will publish his text here for you to download. In the mean time, read a few of the ideas we exchanged by …
Unlock + collect for output
The same illustration that got us to post about image scripting, also brought up an interesting discovery plus a feature/plug-in for Inkscape.
Detail of illustration for Mute Magazine. Click to view .jpg or download complete zipped .svg file + imagesLock layer
It is often helpful to lock an object …
