Interview with Andreas Vox, Scribus-developer
While
in the background participants to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 start
saying goodbye to each other, Andreas Vox makes time to sit down with us
in the hotel lounge. We want to talk to him about Scribus, the
open-source application for professional page layout …
"Neurath's pictograms owe much to the Modernist belief that reality may be modified by being codified – standardised, easy-to-grasp templates as a revolution in human affairs. But the templates themselves, or the code, may end up in their turn aestheticised, reified, in need of a further round of de-cryption, a paradigm …
Conversation with Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov (SK1)
Excerpts from a conversation with Igor Novikov (Ukraine) and Valek
Philippov (Russia) about how and why they are involved in SK1
pre-press software; the joy of reverse
engineering and a handy tip for receiving Russian TV in Ukraine too.
igor_valek.mp3 [25mb …
LGM pictures
here
Interview (~~unedited files~~) with George Williams, developer of
FontForge, the open source font
editing tool. Conversation about Shakespeare, Unicode, the pleasure of
making beautiful things and pottery. Enjoy!
Listen to the recording :
GW_dl1.mp3
[8.1 mb] and
GW_dl2.mp3
[16.6 mb]
... or read the transcription: "I think the …
While
on our way to the Libre Graphics
Meeting in Montreal we've done a
quick test of Scribus 1.3.4cvs and ... good news!
Major New Feature No.1: possibility to add character styles (besides paragraph styles) and a general clean up of the way styles work. More testing needed …
DEbian
Font MAnager a.k.a. dfontmgr (available through the Synaptic Package
Manager) is helpful when you want to register and unregister fonts on a
Debian / Ubuntu system.
After installation you can start the manager, which is a GUI for the
Defoma package, from the command line. Type sudo dfontmgr …
Sneak preview of what New OSP might look like:
The Institute of Network
Cultures published an
insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist
Rosalind
Gill.
Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a
decade after the web, is based on 40 'semi-structured' interviews
with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information
architects, ...). Her study …
