250 cm2 of printed matters OSP visit card have been delivered.
They look bright! The file delivered to the printer was a PDF from
inkscape.
It seems that the SVG suffered of a RGB to CYMK conversion which altered
a bit the colors. All colors were based on 100% of …
Articles by Harrisson 
Soundscape goes Inkscape
The new maxi vynil from Odessa is about to be send to production. We worked on the label design yesterday and inkscape's "clone generator" feature did the difference. It was the perfect tool to render an electronic disco ball - and type, evoking the minimal dance pop of the music and …
From a small but growing movement
Due to my recent task of teaching typography, I was looking around for courses and experiences in that domain. This drove me to Ellen Lupton's website, teacher at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA): www.designwritingresearch.org. There, in an impressive generosity, you can consult her current syllabi and exercices …Print Party Berlin
A report from the whole day is here: http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/in...
For Wizard of OS Constant Printing Team members Harrisson and Pierre Huyghebaert showed that designing and printing booklets with Open Source software is nowhere near Science Fiction.Wednesday the 13th of September, Pierre and Harrisson presented …
Print Party! Join!
Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a Quarantaine pour une bonne Print Party! Ce sera a 16:00, et ca durera jusque peut-etre 20:00. Ca sera en français avec accent, (et bequilles en anglais et en néerlandais), mené par la Constant Printing + Cooking Team.
Ou l'on apprendra comment mettre en page …
decodeunicode.org project
Is an independent online-platform for digital type culture, initiated by the Department of Design at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz, Germany.
The project is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and has the objectives of creating a basis for fundamental typographic …
Xara Xtreme Xbecomes Xopen Xsource.
Xara Xtreme is a vector based software. It runs under Windows and Linux environment. It is a "crossover" software, means it manages pixels and vectors at the same time.
After 15 years of proprietary software status, Xara is operating a strategical migration to open source. The fact that Adobe purchased …
Tigrrrrrrrrrrre!!!
Le Tigre, here, is not the translation of a Mac os in french, nor a No-Wave grrrrl band. It's a brand new generalist weekly french magazine that released its first issue 3 days ago. The big thing here is that this mag is entirely set on Scribus, and proove by …
LaTeX Project
From WORDS MADE FLESH
Code, Culture, Imagination
by Florian Cramer
(p22)The idea that beauty materializes in numerical proportions according to mathematical laws continues to be popular in scientific and engineering cultures, too. Since the early 1970s, Donald Knuth, widely considered the founder of computer science as an independent academic …
A double spread in scribus
Thanks to Philip May and Perl5 software that generated text, it was possible to realise a double spread of a "Babels book". Text is composed of the combinatory of the 26 letters of the alphabet, dot, comma and space, as described in Library of Babel, in Fictions Borges book. Those …