Scribus is included in this year's Google Summer of Code and now
looking for contributions in the form of proposals and feedback to
already formulated ideas:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Ideas
Scribus is also actively looking for student applications:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/GsoC_2008_Example_proposal
From the …
Besides pagenumbers, Scribus masterpages can currently only hold static elements. Ivan Monroy Lopez wrote us a very handy python script which puts as many linked or unlinked text boxes on as many pages you want. You can also run the script multiple times...
The script is …
In the summer of 1997, the NLNet Foundation sold its commercialized internet provision activities to UUNET (the internet subsidiary of WorldCom). This created a fund from which the foundation now supports activities that provide network technology to the community and keep outcomes in the "public domain". NLnet has picked Identity …
This weekend the annual meeting of Free and Open Source Developers
(FOSDEM) takes place in Brussels. As
usual, the ULB fills up with developers from all over Europe, discussing
large scale projects such as Gnome desktop, Mozilla, Xorg and PHP.
Unfortunately none of the talks addressed our usual working tools …
David Reinfurt's essay Making do and getting by departs from the work of Muriel Cooper and Anthony Froshaug, and relates their critically engaged practice to contemporary projects such as Juerg Lehni's Scriptographer. In this way, he convincingly shows how designers can and should reclaim a more intimate relationship with the …
Interview with Dmytri Kleiner
OSP
met Venture
Communist Dmytri
Kleiner late night (thank you Le Coq for the soundtrack!) after his talk
InfoEnclosure-2.0,
in a bar. We wanted to ask him what his ideas about peer production
could mean for the practice of designers and typographers.
Referring to Benjamin …
With Mute's Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg, OSP participated in a NM-X network evening. Following our presentations, we discussed the problems and potential of installing free software on proprietary platforms, whether it was interesting to develop a free software 'design suite', the position of free fonts and much more. [Notes …
(A post for readers with some F/LOSS stamina)
After producing a flyer for
VJ10 in Inkscape without too
much trouble, we confidently decide to do a poster next. With a three
week programme of lectures, workshops and
installations following four
interwoven themes, scattered over five locations and of course …
2 day workshop
Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (20 + 21 November, 2007)
What permutations between typeface, typesetting and text can you imagine? How to design through scripting and can you read differently with computer manipulations?
Full brief:
Design could not exist without a larger eco system of cultural works around it. Even …
