Well, technically not open-source related... but I think this campaign deserves all designers' attention. In a nice mock of Apple's iLife design + writing, Greenpeace reminds us that not all that is wireless comes without footprint. Calling all bloggers, taggers, social bookmarkers and other cool people to the rescue, Greenpeace thinks …
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Watch this thread: Free Font Manifesto
Ellen Lupton's question: Why would a typeface designer want to give a font away? sparked off a series of comments worth reading. The discussion shows how much typographers struggle with 'open source' as an idea. It makes you wonder why Lupton decided to ask 'to give away a font' and …
Design for the common good
This week the Dutch Design Foundation Premsela organised 'For the common good', a conference around Pierre Bernhard (Grapus, Ne Pas Plier), who has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus price.
Design critic Hugues Boekraad introduced the work of Bernard with a plea for reflexive design; in his perspective designers have the …
Skeleton, Corset, Skin
Stroom Den Haag started their year long project After Neurath with a public symposium. After Neurath looked/looks at the relevance of 1930's philosopher and information activist Otto Neurath, and as you can imagine various familiar issues came up.More information about Otto Neurath: http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier …
Open DIN: Das Ist Norm
What does it mean, when a typeface is released in the public domain? What are the legal issues surrounding typography? How can a font be generated collaboratively, using open source software? What does it mean, an open standard and how can such a standard fit different contexts?
To get our …
When standards are political
James Love just posted this interesting report on Nettime:
When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format)
Yesterday I attended a meeting hosted by TACD at Harvard's Berkman Center about a very important issue -- one that is both highly technical and political at the same time -- the battle over …Crash test: Travail mobile
Lay-out in Scribus
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Finished! Sketched and produced a seven page contribution to Open (Dutch bi-monthly on art in public space) + inside cover. Images were prepared in Gimp; pattern assembled in Inkskape and document lay-out in Scribus (v1.3.3.2); all on Ubuntu.
- Importing outlines from Gimp …Print Party 2.01 at Université Attac
Conditions of production and cultural consumption
After Nicolas gave a brief history of how author rights have developed and how the free software and copyleft movements responded to its increasing restrictive use...
...while trying to be not to grim about the way copyright laws are currently used and abused...
This …Les nouveaux habits de la copie
Les nouveaux habits de la copie, Nicolas Malevé
Text available on line: http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/nouveaux_habits.pdf
PDF lay-out: habits_quarantainec.pdf
PDF cover: cover_robot.pdf
License: Copyleft, License Art Libre
Date of publishing: 07-07-2006 (Quarantaine)Maternal Politics
Maternal Politics, Irina Aristarkhova
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Date of publishing: 03-06-2006 (Digitales)