Wednesday September 13, 10:00 – 20:00
Tesla, Klosterstraße 68-70, Berlin
http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2806
Workshop Organised by Cornelia Sollfrank and Nicolas Malevé
Printing Party by Harrisson & Pierre Huyghebaert
FREEdom and OPENness – anything but marketing and ideology? Sharing, really? Culture from and for the Commons. One day …
Interview with Harrisson
One of the co-conspirators in this open source adventure is a Brussels graphiste going under the name Harrisson. His interest in open source software flows with the culture of exchange that keeps the off centre music scene alive, as well as with the humanist tradition persistingly present …
Interview with Pedro Amado (TypeForge)
(Type) designer Pedro Amado is amongst many other things initiator of TypeForge, a website dedicated to the development of 'collaborative type' with open source tools. While working as design technician at FBAUP, he is about to finish a MA with a paper on collaborative methods …
Kaffeeschrift was developed by Jan Gerner from Dresden for use in
menus etc., hence the monospaced figures. It works well for titles and
headers, but was not designed for longer texts (though it holds out
surprisingly well)
Download and try out here: http://www.yanone.de/typedesign/kaffeesatz/
Tagesschrift is …
For those who read German, type designer and -critic Gerrit van Aaken published quite a few well-researched essays on familiar open source typefaces such as Gentium and Vera plus a few surprises such as Kaffeesatz and Union (not under an open licence, but distributed by the Danish government for use …
Souvenirs / Greetings from the Print Party!
Friday July 7 16:00: Printing Party at
Quarantaine (Brussels), with Scribus
get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails.
More details in a few days!
Find more P s with open content license at:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv
(Advanced search …
The Scribus mailinglist is a good place to start when you want to find out about printing, PDF, typography, color management and everything else related to open source publishing. Developers and other users discuss solutions to problems, but also give background information on why certain technical constraints exist, what licensing …
Two projects to submit fonts to, or find others to work with:
Typeforge
http://www.typeforge.net
The Typeforge project was initiated by Portuguese type designer Pedro Amado, to create a platform for "open source collaborative type design". You are encouraged to share sketches, notes and ideas and work on …
Microsoft has recently announced that their 2007 release of Office will not support the "save-as-PDF"-option anymore. This might be bad news for designers' favorite file-format. PDF could become rather exotic when Microsoft users decide en masse to "Save-As-XPS" instead.
Adobe inc. owns the patents for creating and reading PDF-files …
