osp blog - OSPhttp://blog.osp.kitchen/2023-10-21T00:00:00+02:00'Artists and cultural workers in Belgium: Statement of Solidarity with Palestine'2023-10-21T00:00:00+02:002023-10-21T00:00:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2023-10-21:/texts/statement-of-solidarity-with-palestine.html<p>OSP responds to the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPCxLZE0oSMFKWlQ31AehO26cbrAixlLC-4w0HQ5mIxKISOQ/viewform?fbclid=PAAaYZ7qx5vzlemrVyhQwgzyiKcTKabmsy0i4mHrbRXmVFlL-o6vJV0K7urxc_aem_ASNQzSpMLrAG-3oxaXm1E0WT0wJL1RHJZmUQr3VmG9s6hdFSMw8E3HkUGi6hGDlz-6I">Call for action for artistic and cultural organisations and institutions</a></p>
<p>As cultural workers committed to opposing all forms of racism and colonial violence,
we strongly and unambiguously support the Palestinian population in their struggle for freedom.</p>
<p><img alt="Open-source designs 'Stop Genocide' by Atelier Brenda displaying Palestinian flag and the text Stop the genocide" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/palestine/Stop_Genocide_Free_Palestine-09.png"></p>
<p>The call asks for symbolic and tangible actions that we …</p><p>OSP responds to the <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPCxLZE0oSMFKWlQ31AehO26cbrAixlLC-4w0HQ5mIxKISOQ/viewform?fbclid=PAAaYZ7qx5vzlemrVyhQwgzyiKcTKabmsy0i4mHrbRXmVFlL-o6vJV0K7urxc_aem_ASNQzSpMLrAG-3oxaXm1E0WT0wJL1RHJZmUQr3VmG9s6hdFSMw8E3HkUGi6hGDlz-6I">Call for action for artistic and cultural organisations and institutions</a></p>
<p>As cultural workers committed to opposing all forms of racism and colonial violence,
we strongly and unambiguously support the Palestinian population in their struggle for freedom.</p>
<p><img alt="Open-source designs 'Stop Genocide' by Atelier Brenda displaying Palestinian flag and the text Stop the genocide" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/palestine/Stop_Genocide_Free_Palestine-09.png"></p>
<p>The call asks for symbolic and tangible actions that we are and will be undertaking in solidarity with the Palestinian people in this time of genocide.</p>
<p>As designers we have no audience per say but a network of collaborators and platforms accumulated over years of common projects.
We believe that those platforms and communities can be political tools.
We contacted our collaborators and relayed this call to such platforms with an intention of mutual responsabilisation as an action of support.</p>
<p>We invite the groups for which we build design to use their platforms according to this call.
We hope that it can help opening up spaces for: spreading information, dissusions and symbolic or material actions within the Brussels cultural sector.</p>
<p>We invite other design studio to do the same, and think about their position as builders of identities and visibility in time where unambiguous political positionning can impact the public opinion and the position and action of states.</p>
<p>OSP endorses the BDS movement as formulated by <a href="https://www.bacbi.be/cult/Home-bacbi">BACBI</a></p>
<p>In addition to the important links shared in in the call, we add:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pupxap5sisr8i25/AAD40OQ1FNLPXJ9JMmty1n5ya?dl=0">Open-source designs 'Stop Genocide' by Atelier Brenda</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/846685030412813/">Banners workshop at Shik Shak Shok solidarity edition</a></li>
</ul>
<p>This declaration was inspired by <a href="https://varia.zone/en/solidarity-with-palestine.html">one from Varia</a> and others.</p>Balsa modes d'emploi2018-07-02T21:07:00+02:002018-07-02T21:07:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2018-07-02:/works/balsa-modes-d-emploi.html<p>Septième saison associés avec le Théatre de la Balsamine!
Et pour celle-ci, sous le signe obligé mais d'une certaine jouissance, l'arte povera numérique d'OSP en auteur visuel et à l'écriture de modes d'emploi.
Déplier une table pliante, bricoler un piège à mouche, tenir les voiles pendant la tempête, nouer ses …</p><p>Septième saison associés avec le Théatre de la Balsamine!
Et pour celle-ci, sous le signe obligé mais d'une certaine jouissance, l'arte povera numérique d'OSP en auteur visuel et à l'écriture de modes d'emploi.
Déplier une table pliante, bricoler un piège à mouche, tenir les voiles pendant la tempête, nouer ses lacets avec un dead knot,
faire un cunnilingus, construire une barricade... Le tout en courbes spiro torréfiées bruit imagemagick.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/economies-skip.jpg" title="Entre autres références, *Les économies au féminin*, Skip, 1980">
↑ Entre autres références, <em>Les économies au féminin</em>, Skip, 1980</p>
<p>Le poster dans le métro en prémices Inkscape, avec son historique fournis de sept saisons de logos.
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-metro.jpg" title="L'affiche de saison, métro Madou"></p>
<p>Le programme-pass en A6, avec html2print et deux couleurs spot décalées. À voir aussi en pdf <a href="https://cloud.osp.kitchen/s/TkJBATZQf6Dwgw4">les 64 pages avec les couleurs spots avant traitement</a> ou <a href="https://cloud.osp.kitchen/s/aGGr3S6dsSn4d9J">la couche du noir des 64 pages après traitement</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-pass01.jpg" title="">
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-pass02.jpg" title="">
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-pass05.jpg" title="">
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-pass06.jpg" title="">
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-pass07.jpg" title=""></p>
<p>L'affiche A0 en version unique sur le totem à côté de la Balsa.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-totem.jpg" title=""></p>
<p>Les premiers flyers qui inaugurent la gamme de couleur bien bam.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-flyer01.jpg" title="">
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-18-19-flyer02.jpg" title=""></p>
<p>Et le site web installé la saison passée, <a href="https://balsamine.be/#saison-1819">balsamine.be/#saison-1819</a> complètement remoulu en spot colors et timeline acide sucrée.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/balsa-site-18-19.png" title=""></p>Soap slides in the sun2018-06-20T14:10:00+02:002018-06-20T14:10:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2018-06-20:/live/soap-slides-in-the-sun.html<div style="padding:66.67% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/276025630?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
<p>Another type of tool practice.</p><div style="padding:66.67% 0 0 0;position:relative;"><iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/276025630?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;" frameborder="0" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe></div>
<script src="https://player.vimeo.com/api/player.js"></script>
<p>Another type of tool practice.</p>Bram Crevits2018-04-06T12:41:00+02:002018-04-06T12:41:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2018-04-06:/news/bram.html<p><img alt="Algue Print Brussels" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/biocolorlab-l.jpg" title="One of the first images plotted in the OSP studio with “living colours” from algues grown in KASK’s Biolab"></p>
<p>It is with great sadness that we learned of the unexpected death of our board member Bram Crevits.</p>
<p>We will miss Bram’s energy and his persistent interest in the parcours of OSP. We first met him in 2009, as director of the Cimatics festival for which we made <a href="http://osp.kitchen/foundry/cimatics/">a …</a></p><p><img alt="Algue Print Brussels" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/biocolorlab-l.jpg" title="One of the first images plotted in the OSP studio with “living colours” from algues grown in KASK’s Biolab"></p>
<p>It is with great sadness that we learned of the unexpected death of our board member Bram Crevits.</p>
<p>We will miss Bram’s energy and his persistent interest in the parcours of OSP. We first met him in 2009, as director of the Cimatics festival for which we made <a href="http://osp.kitchen/foundry/cimatics/">a typeface</a>. Many encounters followed, among which the <a href="http://opentools.schoolofarts.be/">Open Tools</a> workshop Bram organised at the KASK in Gent. We were honoured when Bram accepted to be a board member when we <a href="article-iii-goal-social-object-field-of-action.html">formed an association</a>. Most recently Bram has connected OSP with the “<a href="http://laboratorium.bio/">Color research</a>” project between art and science, where we experiment on a playground drawn by a plotter that uses a set of colours based on living organisms—like the algues produced by María Boto Ordóñez in her Biolab at KASK.</p>
<p>Our condolences go to his family and close friends. A non-religious ceremony will be held this Saturday 7 April at 10:30 am - KASK - Zwarte Zaal / Louis Pasteurlaan 2 - 9000 Gent.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lieve Bram,<br>
Dearest Bram,</p>
<p>Je omarmde projecten voor een betere wereld, vaak was je de eerste. Je hebt ons je vertrouwen geschonken, je hebt ons project verdedigd, je scherpe blik heeft ons vooruit geholpen. Zoals wij zijn er zovelen. Vandaag treuren we samen.</p>
<p>You embraced projects for a better world, often you were the first. You gave us your confidence, you defended our project, and your sharp mind helped us advance. And there are so many like us. Today we mourn together.</p>
<p>We missen je.<br>
We miss you.</p>
<p>Open Source Publishing VZW<br>
Alexandre, Catherine, Colm, Eric, Femke, Gijs, Ivan, John, Joël, Ludivine, Maxime, Nicolas, Nik, Pierre, Pierre, Sarah, Seb, Stéphanie, Yi</p>
</blockquote>Dirty variables workshop2018-03-27T17:00:00+02:002018-03-27T17:00:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2018-03-27:/live/dirty-variables-workshop.html<p>Dirty variables workshop is about variable fonts with some distance and manual interpolation (with stroke fonts inside), with La Cambre master students in type media, Brussels, on the 26 + 27 March 2018.</p>
<p>We are using Fonttools and the ttx format, which is a clear xml dump of every table present …</p><p>Dirty variables workshop is about variable fonts with some distance and manual interpolation (with stroke fonts inside), with La Cambre master students in type media, Brussels, on the 26 + 27 March 2018.</p>
<p>We are using Fonttools and the ttx format, which is a clear xml dump of every table present in a (variable) font. See <a href="https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools">github.com/fonttools/fonttools</a>.</p>
<p>The custom made inspector web tool displays the content of ttx files, including all deltas. The repository is on <a href="http://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables">http://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables</a></p>
<p>All the documentation we gathered before and during the workshop follows, in a quite rough way!</p>
<p><img alt="Inspector showing deltas" src="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables/raw/b0a89a0c9fb8de2267f7fe975eeaff5744ab8d52/iceberg/Screenshot%20from%202018-03-26%2016-51-04.png" title="Inspector showing deltas"></p>
<h2>Variables fonts past and present</h2>
<p>OpenType Font Variations is the new feature of the OpenType Font Format specification version 1.8. The first public announcement of this new version happened in Warsaw during ATypI 2016.</p>
<p>To be a bit more clear on what and who :</p>
<p>OpenType format was developped by Microsoft, Apple and Adobe since 1996, to stop the war between Postscript (Adobe) and Truetype (Microsoft + Apple) formats. Because of their need for emoji fonts, Google join the group more recently. Apple and Microsoft share the same concern.</p>
<p>«The new OpenType format allows for a single file to contain an entire family, or multiple related families, of font instances.
Previously if you wanted to license an entire font family with a range of weights for your website (like Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Extra Bold, and Ultra) the type foundry would generate a separate font file for each style. But now it's possible for type foundries to put all of these styles into a single file.»
— from <a href="http://cjtype.com/dunbar/variablefonts">cjtype.com/dunbar/variablefonts</a>, an article on Dunbar “n”, a single glyph font 'n' as the "first" var font !</p>
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/RoxaneGataud/status/777209352025407488">The "historical moment" by Roxane Gataud on Twitter @RoxaneGataud at Studio Dumbar with @kupfers @youknowcj @tassiana_costa #variablefonts"</a></p>
<p>Variable fonts are also called “responsive typographies”.</p>
<p>For the moment, this font format is mostly working on the web. Compatble web browsers are listed on <a href="https://caniuse.com/#feat=variable-fonts">https://caniuse.com/#feat=variable-fonts</a></p>
<p>For the print world :</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.typekit.com/2017/10/19/new-variable-fonts-from-adobe-originals/">Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator now support Variable Fonts and the user can find the controls in the font panel by pressing the Variable Font button next to the Font Style menu</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Colorfont support in Photoshop - link to find one day</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://t.co/2bvR3uMGuU - https://twitter.com/axis_praxis/status/976112486209421313?s=09">A recent announcement from Inkscape</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.underware.nl/fonts/zeitung/features/Flex/ → https://twitter.com/variablefonts/status/799150169791102976">You can buy The Zeitung Flex InDesign extension by Underware for Adobe suite, to play with Zeitung Flex variations</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="Variable geometrics with bodies" src="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables/raw/673b2cbe180d11473460895eab97ebd16090c662/iceberg/game-20180326_134231.jpg" title="Variable geometrics with bodies"></p>
<h2>Design spaces, axis, tables?</h2>
<p>To dive into the variable fonts also brings us to revisit the different spaces and tables that are around and contained in a font.</p>
<p>In the mid-nineties, Adobe has proposed Multiple Masters fonts, an interpolation system to generate fonts from two masters embeded into the font itself.
In the same time, Apple introduce a more refined but similar system called Apple Advanced Typography (AAT).
Both system proves the technical feasability but were not largely used by designers.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_master_fonts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Typography">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_master_fonts - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Typography</a></p>
<p>Designers have not catch up these tools, but type designers begon to use the same kind of tools, but externally of the font, in the font editors* mainly. The designation “design space” one of way to name it. This space gathers or deploys the informations describing the relations between the masters, the sources of a font. It defines for exemples the relations between the light and the bold version of a same font. A design space store all the datas needed for variable font interpolations. It it was is not into the font, meaning it is not about the drawing of the font, the meta infos... </p>
<p>We could say that now with Open Type 1.8 specification, this design space become more concretely embeded into the font and not depending on extrapolation tools. The design space is called variation space in the specification and it is the range of variability in the variable font.</p>
<p>The design space is defined by </p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>axes (names and dimensions of the axes)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>sources (links to the ufo, otf, ttf...)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>instances (the steps you wants to generate)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>rules (sketche on how conditional stuff could work)</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>And those element are tidy into tables :</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>glyph - Glyph shapes → table containing the shape data for the glyphs <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/glyf">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/glyf</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>gvar -Glyph Variations→ table containg the delta's of the glyphs <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/gvar">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/gvar</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>fvar - Font Variations → table desribing the variation axes of the font, and describing instances (pre-set values per axis) - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/fvar">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/fvar</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>avar - axis variations → table allowing to modify how a variation behaves, mainly the 'speed', it can become non-linear - <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/avar">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/avar</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>cvar - CVT (control value table) variations <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/cvar">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/cvar</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>stat - style attributes → ? <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/stat">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/stat</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Axis names have to be a string, that can't be longer than 4 letters. Axis tags are predefined axes. 'wght': weight, 'wdth': width, 'ital': italic, 'slnt': slant, 'opsz': optical size.</p>
<p>See a talk by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RRoIYeJ3YQ">Erik van Blokland at TYPO Labs 2017 about designspaces</a></p>
<p><img alt="How to plot an A, skeleton versus contour, projection" src="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables/raw/673b2cbe180d11473460895eab97ebd16090c662/iceberg/a-lola-20180326_151522_HDR.jpg" title="How to plot an A, skeleton versus contour, projection"></p>
<h2>More complete introductions</h2>
<p>To ensure a good start of the technology (everyone was remembering the failed attempt of MM and AAT...), the four giants agreed to announce it in one go, along with external commenters</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://medium.com/@tiro/https-medium-com-tiro-introducing-opentype-variable-fonts-12ba6cd2369">Introducing OpenType Variable Fonts, John Hudson (W3C), Sep 14, 2016</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://blog.typekit.com/2016/09/14/variable-fonts-a-new-kind-of-font-for-flexible-design/">Adobe annoucement</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/font-variations">Microsoft annoucement</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/09/introducing-opentype-font-variations.html">Google annoucement</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Apple annoucement (is there an Apple annoucement?)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.monotype.com/resources/articles/part-1-from-truetype-gx-to-variable-fonts/">From TrueType GX to Variable Fonts, Tom Rickner, Head of Tools at Monotype - 29. 11. 2016</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.thomasphinney.com/2018/01/why-variable-fonts-will-succeed/">Why Variable Fonts Will Succeed, Thomas Phinney (FontLab, ATypI) - 27. 01. 2018</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://typedrawers.com">OpenType variable fonts discussion on TypeDrawers</a> - search for "[otvar]"</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The very clear Microsoft documentation of the OpenType® specification is on <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/font-file#otttables">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/font-file#otttables</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>More general, a blog post with some details - <a href="https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/opentype.html#opentype-font-variations">https://simoncozens.github.io/fonts-and-layout/opentype.html#opentype-font-variations</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>And 99 articles from 1991 (!) to 2018 on <a href="https://www.axis-praxis.org/resources">https://www.axis-praxis.org/resources</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="At work, in the tower" src="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables/raw/673b2cbe180d11473460895eab97ebd16090c662/iceberg/group-IMG_20180327_103245.jpg" title="At work, in the tower"></p>
<h2>(All-male) actors</h2>
<p>Here are some profiles to follow that document and follow all the rebounds of the variables</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Laurence Penney (Bristol, UK)</p>
<ul>
<li>Axis-praxis <a href="https://www.axis-praxis.org">https://www.axis-praxis.org</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/axis_praxis">https://twitter.com/axis_praxis</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16QIZrRxafY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16QIZrRxafY</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p>Nick Sherman (New York, USA) - At the occasion of Robothon 2018 (8–9 March), Nick launched <a href="https://v-fonts.com">https://v-fonts.com</a>, a website collecting and displaying variables fonts. On twitter Nick is on <a href="https://twitter.com/NickSherman">https://twitter.com/NickSherman</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/variablefonts">https://twitter.com/variablefonts</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Erik van Blokland from Letterror, part of the OpenType 1.8 comitee</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Just Van Rossum from Letterror, (probably) the creator of ttx, neffew of Guido van Rossum, programmer who creates Python</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Thomas Phinney, font and typography expert and consultant. In his day job, Thomas is President of FontLab, the font creation/editing software company. He is also treasurer of ATypI, the international typographic association. From 1997-2008 he did type at Adobe, lastly as product manager for fonts and global typography. After that he spent five years as senior technical product manager (a.k.a. “guru”) of fonts and typography at Extensis, including managing the font library for the WebINK web font solution. His typeface Hypatia Sans is an Adobe Original (with help from Robert Slimbach, Miguel Sousa and Paul Hunt). His latest typeface is the Kickstarter-funded Cristoforo.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>John Hudson of Tiro Typeworks, design wonderful top-of-the-line fonts in Vancouver. Tiro is increasingly involved in font technologies, and are avid advertisers for OpenType and work often with Microsoft and Linotype on projects. John has created or collaborated on typefaces for many writing systems. He is an expert contributor to Unicode, and a member of the W3C Web Fonts Working Group.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Adam Twardoch and Yuri Yarmola : programmers of FontLab</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Georg Seifert and Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer : programmers of Glyphs</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>(Yes, Twitter remains a good node for typographic discussions)</p>
<h2>Some critical approaches</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V-AeI4yaQQ">Le point de vue de Jean-Baptiste Levée aux TYPO Labs 2017</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://kupferschrift.de">Boring font is the title of a conference Indra Kupferschmid recently gave at typemedia.org/robothon2018 - “Warning: type family regularization (that interpolatable outlines encourage) is BORING!”</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>["Of course there are skeptics and believers. A very interesting statement from Indra Kupferschmid in her talk during this year’s Robothon (2018) was when she warned type designers of the sometimes boring results of this new technology. I’m one of the believers and in this article I’ll try to explain why" - Irene Vlachou] (https://www.type-together.com/index.php?action=portal/viewContent&cntId_content=3614)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://pixelambacht.nl/2017/variable-hover-effects/">Causticity from "the department of silly demos"</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Usage exemples</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A variable font that responds to sound on <a href="https://goertek.kontrapunkt.com/online/">goertek.kontrapunkt.com/online/</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Web use collection of <a href="https://codepen.io/collection/XqRLMb/#">Mandy Michael codepen.io/collection/XqRLMb/#</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fake on <a href="https://studiodumbar.com/">website Dumbar studiodumbar.com</a> and on <a href="https://github.com/RoelN/Color-Variable-Emoji">github.com/RoelN/Color-Variable-Emoji</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="Inspector showing deltas" src="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables/raw/b0a89a0c9fb8de2267f7fe975eeaff5744ab8d52/iceberg/Screenshot%20from%202018-03-27%2014-34-41.png" title="Inspector showing deltas"></p>
<h2>Toolkit</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fonttools</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools">github.com/fonttools/fonttools</a></li>
<li><a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fonttools">groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/fonttools</a></li>
<li>
<p><a href="https://brewinstall.org/install-fonttools-on-mac-with-brew">On Mac, where every install is a bit more complicated, install Fonttools with brew on terminal</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>PyGObject</p>
</li>
<li><a href="https://pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">pygobject.readthedocs.io/en/latest</a></li>
<li>
<p>To install it, you'll also need libgirepository1.0-dev and libcairo-dev</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fontforge</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Non-free : Fontlab, Robofog, Robofont, and Glyphs.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="When it's working!" src="https://gitlab.constantvzw.org/osp/workshop.dirty-variables/raw/673b2cbe180d11473460895eab97ebd16090c662/iceberg/hop.gif" title="When it's working!"></p>HTML sauce cocktail, sauce à part2017-02-15T23:11:00+01:002017-02-15T23:11:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2017-02-15:/news/html-sauce-cocktail-sauce-a-part.html<h2>PREFACE</h2>
<p>Ce texte a été initialement écrit pour la revue <a href="http://www.revue-backoffice.com">Back
Office</a>. Pour des raisons de format,
il n'y sera pas publié, mais nous sommes heureux de le partager ici avec
vous dans sa version longue.</p>
<h2>HTML2PRINT SANS SAUCE</h2>
<p>Depuis sa création en 2006, Open Source Publishing dessine des mises …</p><h2>PREFACE</h2>
<p>Ce texte a été initialement écrit pour la revue <a href="http://www.revue-backoffice.com">Back
Office</a>. Pour des raisons de format,
il n'y sera pas publié, mais nous sommes heureux de le partager ici avec
vous dans sa version longue.</p>
<h2>HTML2PRINT SANS SAUCE</h2>
<p>Depuis sa création en 2006, Open Source Publishing dessine des mises en
page et code avec des logiciels libres ou open source. Il s'agit d'abord
de questionner nos pratiques avec ces médiateurs omniprésents que sont
les outils numériques et les communautés dont ils sont issus. Alors que
la matérialité de l'informatique s'efface derrière des interfaces
«intuitives»^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:intuitif">2</a>^, le logiciel libre,
par sa nature ouverte, invite à saisir l'épaisseur culturelle des
formats, interfaces et usages.</p>
<p>Splines spirographiques, filtres ImageMagick ou lignes de commande sont
quelques-unes des rencontres qui ont changé notre manière d'appréhender
le vecteur, le bitmap ainsi que la manière de construire et de partager
nos propres outils. Mais pour ce qui est de la mise en page, nous nous
retrouvons face à un dilemme cornélien: celui d'avoir à choisir entre
d'un côté une approche essentiellement visuelle, incarnée par Scribus et
InDesign, et de l'autre une approche intégralement programmatique
incarnée par TeX, LaTeX ou Context.</p>
<p>Dans sa tentative de simuler la manipulation directe de l'objet final,
l'approche WYSIWYG se heurte aux limites du paradigme papier/ciseaux.
Prisonnière de l'héritage de Gutenberg, elle ignore le potentiel de
réinvention du média numérique. L'approche programmatique s'avère elle
aussi décevante car systématique et linéaire. Fonctionnant à sens
unique, du code vers le visuel, elle fonctionne bien pour mettre en page
des flux continus mais permet très difficilement de débrayer et de créer
des mises en pages plus articulées, notamment car le format final n'est
plus éditable.</p>
<p>Après nous être au départ plus particulièrement concentrés sur des
objets imprimés, nous avons commencé à investir le web comme espace de
publication. Ce qui nous séduit dans le design web est l'approche
collaborative ainsi que le va et vient qu'il permet entre design visuel
et design par le code. Populaires, ultra-documentés et basés sur des
formats ouverts élaborés par différents acteurs dans un souci de
dialogue ^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:dialogue">3</a>^ et de continuité,
les langages du web sont de véritables <em>lingua franca</em>: ils sont
éditables par de nombreuses manières, «à la main» et via un large
spectre de logiciels visuels ou programmatiques. Le navigateur web,
pièce maîtresse, réunit en un même espace ces différentes approches.
Par sa nature distribuée (une page étant généralement le résultat de
l’agrégation de nombreuses ressources telles des feuilles de style ou
des images), les formats du web permettent un travail collaboratif entre
des personnes aux compétences diverses, contrastant avec l'approche
solitaire des logiciels comme InDesign ou Scribus.</p>
<p>À divers niveaux tous les membres d'OSP ont une pratique du web et cette
question revient : «Ne pourrions-nous pas utiliser les mêmes
méthodologies et outils pour le design imprimé?». Après un petit audit
nous décidons de nous lancer. Le premier projet sera pour le programme
annuel du Théâtre la Balsamine. Mais si un grand nombre de propositions
pour l'imprimé sont déjà prévues par les standards CSS, de nombreuses
fonctionnalités indispensables (traits de coupe, pagination, titres
courants…) ne sont pas encore implémentées dans les navigateurs web.
Pour palier à ces lacunes, nous compilons une série de recettes pouvant
désormais servir de gabarits pour de futurs projets. Nous l'intitulons
html2print.</p>
<figure>
![](http://silo.schr.fr/kabk14/PRESENTATIE_OSP_PROJECTWEEK2014.016.jpg)
<figcaption>
image issue de la première présentation d'OSP d'utilisation d'HTML pour
des documents multi-pages, Libre Graphics Meeting 2013, Madrid
</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>SAUCE COCKTAIL</h2>
<p>Mars 2015, après deux années de pratique d'html2print en interne pour
diverses commandes graphiques, nous pensons que l'outil est prêt à être
«<em>bêta</em>-testé» par d'autres, notamment par des designers qui ne sont pas
nécessairement développeurs. L'occasion d'un workshop à la HEAR de
Strasbourg tombe à pic: quatre journées pour apprendre les bases HTML +
CSS et produire un objet imprimé.</p>
<p>Par ses contraintes de tailles d'écrans <em>multiple devices</em>, la mise en
page web se doit d'être adaptative, quelque part consciente de
l'environnement dans lequel elle s'installe. De ce point de vue, elle
s'oppose au design imprimé où la plupart des interfaces traditionnelles
gardent nos mains fixées sur les blocs de Gutenberg. Nous proposons aux
étudiants d'expérimenter les <em>media queries</em>, conditions CSS qui
adaptent le design d'un site en fonction du dispositif de lecture
(ordinateur, tablette, GSM…) ou de la taille de l'écran du lecteur.
La fluidité du HTML rend très facile le changement de format: un
changement dans les dimensions de la page et le reste coule. Pour épicer
la sauce, nous proposons aux étudiants de travailler sur un Etherpad
^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:Etherpad">4</a>^ permettant de produire ces différents
formats à partir d'un même document. La taille de la fenêtre du
navigateur change le format de la page imprimée ainsi que son design.
Et, le fait de partager un seul et même document rend l'apprentissage de
HTML et CSS beaucoup plus excitant et rapide. Les étudiants apprennent
par eux-mêmes en voyant les changements des autres en direct.</p>
<figure>
![Screenshot
Etherpad](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/images/var/albums/HEAD-Strasbourg-HTML-sauce-cocktail/Screenshot%20from%202015-12-15%2018%3A20%3A15.png?m=1450200225)
<figcaption>
Le *pad* de la feuille de styles commune
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/images/var/resizes/HEAD-Strasbourg-HTML-sauce-cocktail/1.png?m=1450201121"></p>
<figure>
![](http://comgraph.hear.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bcb-1.jpg)
<figcaption>
Pyramide des différents formats produits: du A8 au A0.
Photo © Hugo Serraz, licence Art Libre
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Pour profiter pleinement de l'outil, nous proposons de travailler à
partir d'un contenu d'une certaine longueur, avec plusieurs niveaux
d'informations. Nous glanons sur le projet
Gutenberg^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:Gutenberg">5</a>^ <em>The Belgian Cook Book</em> de
Mrs. Brian Luck, une compilation de recettes d'émigrés belges au
Royaume-Uni en 1915. L'avantage de cette archive étant que les livres y
sont proposés dans différents formats dont HTML.</p>
<p>La première journée est consacrée à un cours accéléré sur les
expressions rationelles (grep)^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:grep">6</a>^ et syntaxe
de base des langages HTML/CSS. Le jour suivant, des groupes <em>ad hoc</em> et
perméables se forment autour de plusieurs chantiers: nettoyage et
optimisation des contenus en utilisant des expressions rationnelles;
structuration sémantique des contenus HTML (titres, sous-titres, termes
techniques, listes, etc.) et enfin la définition des styles visuels
communs à tous les formats imprimables.</p>
<p>Puis, cinq équipes sont formées, chacune prenant en charge un format
d'impression: A7 → micro-format travaillant sur une mise en page en
miroir; A6 paysage → fiches de cuisine cannibale où les ingrédients sont
remplacés par des noms de personnes avec grep; 215×330mm → grand format
à consulter posé sur une table; 990×1075mm → affiches sérigraphiées avec
zoom sur les adverbes avec grep; multi-format → grâce à la propriété
<em>float</em> de CSS, les blocs de recettes coulent de gauche à droite comme
du texte, la mise en page s'adapte ainsi d'elle-même selon la taille du
livre. Une sixième équipe se consacre à la réalisation d'illustrations
ASCII via Etherpad.</p>
<figure>
![Screenshot
Etherpad](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/images/var/albums/HEAD-Strasbourg-HTML-sauce-cocktail/2016-02-12_17-28-07_screenshot.png)
<figcaption>
Le *pad* de la feuille de styles commune
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Nous travaillons sur Etherpad^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:Etherpad">4</a>^,
un éditeur de texte collaboratif. C'est un des points clés du workshop:
la mise en commun du code rend son apprentissage beaucoup plus excitant
et rapide. Les étudiants apprennent les uns des autres en voyant les
changements en direct. Un seul document définit l'ensemble des objets à
produire: la taille de la fenêtre du navigateur change le format de la
page imprimée ainsi que son design, suivant les règles de tailles,
définies en CSS.</p>
<figure>
![](http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/images/var/albums/HEAD-Strasbourg-HTML-sauce-cocktail/DSC_0107.JPG)
<figcaption>
Pyramide des différents formats: du A0 au A7. Photo © Hugo Serraz,
licence Art Libre
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Le dernier jour du workshop est consacré à l'impression, à la prise de
vue^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:photos">8</a>^ et présentation des objets
éditoriaux. Les fichiers sources et l'historique du projet sont mises en
ligne sur GitHub. ^<a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:github">9</a>^.</p>
<figure>
![](http://comgraph.hear.fr/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/bcb2.jpg)
<figcaption>
Mise à plat des différents objets imprimés.
Photo © Hugo Serraz, licence Art Libre
</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>DEGUSTATION</h2>
<p>Concevoir un objet imprimé avec HTML est une expérience nouvelle pour
tous et la différence de niveaux des étudiants (degré d'étude,
connaissances techniques) ne s'est pas manifestée. Html2print est un
outil pédagogiquement intéressant car il supprime le clivage
écran/imprimé. De plus, les navigateurs web étant par conception
tolérants à l'erreur, ils permettent toujours d'obtenir un résultat,
même imparfait. Par ailleurs, le fait d'avoir plusieurs objets sur un
même document était très stimulant pour les étudiants qui pouvaient à
tout moment suivre leur évolution. Au-delà leur intérêt
ortho-typographique, les expressions rationnelles furent grandement
utilisées pour tordre les contenus et leur design. Enfin, le fait que
les technologies abordées dans le workshop soient très populaires et
documentées sur le web, en anglais mais aussi en français, aiguise la
motivation des étudiants.</p>
<h2>SAUCE SAMOURAI</h2>
<p>Suite au workshop donné à la HEAR Strasbourg, la sauce html2print
commence doucement à prendre et continue de s'imprimer sur papier. Ainsi
deux participants au workshop ont poursuivi leur travaux: Hugo Serraz et
Léna Robin.</p>
<figure>
[![]({filename}/images/uploads/hugo-serraz.jpg){: .footnote-ref}]({filename}/images/uploads/hugo-serraz.jpg)
<figcaption>
Hugo Serraz a réalisé, à l'aide de notre outil, deux éditions, chacune
imprimant les actualités d'une journée entière du site *lemonde.fr*.
Photo © Hugo Serraz
</figcaption>
</figure>
<figure>
[![](http://www.lenarobin.com/images/ContextualisedInformations/5250_BPH_04A77_PR00159_1247_035.jpg)](http://www.lenarobin.com/images/ContextualisedInformations/5250_BPH_04A77_PR00159_1247_035.jpg)
<figcaption>
Léna Robin <http://lenarobin.github.io/> a concocté une recette
alternative avec Python et Prince XML. «*Contextualised Informations*
est une réflexion sur la prévention et l'analyse des rumeurs et fausses
informations qui circulent en ligne.»
Photo © Léna Robin
</figcaption>
</figure>
<h3></h3>
<h3>LIENS</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fichiers source d'html2print: <a href="http://osp.kitchen/tools/html2print/">http://osp.kitchen/tools/html2print/</a></li>
<li>Article de blog des étudiants de la HEAR:
<a href="http://comgraph.hear.fr/2015/03/html-sauce-cocktail/">http://comgraph.hear.fr/2015/03/html-sauce-cocktail/</a></li>
<li>Fichiers source du workshop:
<a href="https://github.com/HEAR/HTML_sauce-cocktail-workshop-OSP">https://github.com/HEAR/HTML_sauce-cocktail-workshop-OSP</a></li>
<li>Site répertoriant des mises en page générées par du code:
<a href="http://computedlayout.tumblr.com/">http://computedlayout.tumblr.com/</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>NOTES</h3>
<div class="footnote">
1. <div id="fn:sauce">
</div>
Nous avons nommé notre workshop «HTML sauce cocktail» en référence
au contenu apporté pour le workshop, un livre de recettes de cuisine
belges, et aux sauces typiques des fritkots du
royaume. [↩](#fnref:sauce "Jump back to footnote 1 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
2. <div id="fn:intuitif">
</div>
Qui ne demande pas à penser, basé sur des reflexes, des habitudes,
des gestes
familier. [↩](#fnref:intuitif "Jump back to footnote 2 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
3. <div id="fn:dialogue">
</div>
Cela ne signifie pas qu'il n'y ait pas des jeux de pouvoir dans la
définition de ces
formats. [↩](#fnref:dialogue "Jump back to footnote 3 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
4. <div id="fn:Etherpad">
</div>
Etherpad est un éditeur de texte collaboratif et synchrone: les
utilisateurs peuvent écrire en même temps sur un même doculent
<http://etherpad.org/>. Dû aux restrictions de sécurité web des
institutions publiques, nous ne pouvons pas utiliser le serveur
Etherpad personnel d'OSP. Nous avons dû aller sur Framapad
<http://framapad.org/> pour contourner ce
problème. [↩](#fnref:Etherpad "Jump back to footnote 4 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
5. <div id="fn:Gutenberg">
</div>
Le projet Gutenberg est une archive de livres du domaine public:
des livres que l'on peut redistribuer et réutiliser librement parce
que les droits d'auteur ont expiré 70 ans après la mort de celui-ci.
<http://gutenberg.org/> [↩](#fnref:Gutenberg "Jump back to footnote 5 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
6. <div id="fn:grep">
</div>
Ensemble de fonctions permettant d’automatiser la recherche et le
remplacement d’éléments définis au préalable dans un texte.
Une fonctionnalité que l'on retrouve dans divers langages de
programmation, d'éditeurs de code et même dans…
InDesign. [↩](#fnref:grep "Jump back to footnote 6 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
7. <div id="fn:participants">
</div>
Intervenants : Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Colm O’Neill et Ludi Loiseau.
Avec les étudiants en communication graphique années 2 à 5 : So-Hyun
Bae, Laura Burucoa, Charlotte Chowdurry, Victor Donati, Montasser
Drissi, Angéline Girard, Romain Goetz, Manon Hachad, Quentin Juhel,
Théophile Martin, Arman Mohtadji, Clara Neumann, Lisa Pagès,
Benjamin Riollet, Lena Robin, Hugo Serraz, Caroline
Sorin. [↩](#fnref:participants "Jump back to footnote 7 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
8. <div id="fn:photos">
</div>
Consultable sur le blog des étudiants de la HEAR :
<http://comgraph.hear.fr/2015/03/html-sauce-cocktail>. [↩](#fnref:photos "Jump back to footnote 8 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
9. <div id="fn:github">
</div>
<https://github.com/HEAR/HTML_sauce-cocktail-workshop-OSP>. [↩](#fnref:github "Jump back to footnote 9 in the text"){: .footnote-ref}
</div>
<style>
.post img {: .footnote-ref} figcaption {: .footnote-ref}</style>OSP in 20142015-07-13T10:51:00+02:002015-07-13T10:51:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2015-07-13:/news/osp-in-2014.html<p>Last February, OSP officially became an asbl/vzw: a Belgian association
with no lucrative purposes. We are trying to get more structured and
this goes through making precise activity reports. Here is the one for
2014
: <a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OSP2014.pdf">OSP2014.pdf</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/var/albums/variable%40kriekelaar/IMG_9567.JPG"></p><p>Last February, OSP officially became an asbl/vzw: a Belgian association
with no lucrative purposes. We are trying to get more structured and
this goes through making precise activity reports. Here is the one for
2014
: <a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OSP2014.pdf">OSP2014.pdf</a>.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://gallery3.constantvzw.org/var/albums/variable%40kriekelaar/IMG_9567.JPG"></p>Seoul fonts karaoke2014-01-29T00:54:00+01:002014-01-29T00:54:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2014-01-29:/live/seoul-fonts-karaoke.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSCF0749.jpg"><img alt="DSCF0749" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7214" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSCF0749.jpg"></a></p>
<p>This print party was wildly exciting.<br>
Thanks again to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/collectifsin1/videos">collectif
SIN</a> and <a href="http://delacharge.com/">De La
Charge</a> gallery.<br>
Find the recipe and generic of the event on the <a href="http://osp.constantvzw.org/workshop/typojanchi-seoul/">README page of the
workshop</a> and
<strong>download the 2 hits interpreted by our voice Ms. Funzie Korocr,
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.workshop.typojanchi-seoul.git;a=blob_plain;f=print-party/hits/seoul-fonts-song_1.wav">다누보강의 작울결 Remix
1</a>
and <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.workshop.typojanchi-seoul.git;a=blob_plain;f=print-party/hits/seoul-fonts-song_2.wav">다누보강의 …</a></strong></p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSCF0749.jpg"><img alt="DSCF0749" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7214" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSCF0749.jpg"></a></p>
<p>This print party was wildly exciting.<br>
Thanks again to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/collectifsin1/videos">collectif
SIN</a> and <a href="http://delacharge.com/">De La
Charge</a> gallery.<br>
Find the recipe and generic of the event on the <a href="http://osp.constantvzw.org/workshop/typojanchi-seoul/">README page of the
workshop</a> and
<strong>download the 2 hits interpreted by our voice Ms. Funzie Korocr,
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.workshop.typojanchi-seoul.git;a=blob_plain;f=print-party/hits/seoul-fonts-song_1.wav">다누보강의 작울결 Remix
1</a>
and <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.workshop.typojanchi-seoul.git;a=blob_plain;f=print-party/hits/seoul-fonts-song_2.wav">다누보강의 작울결 Remix
2</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot-from-2014-01-28-232734.png"><img alt="Screenshot from 2014-01-28
23:27:34" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7214" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot-from-2014-01-28-232734.png"></a></p>Public Meet Redirection2012-10-22T15:46:00+02:002012-10-22T15:46:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2012-10-22:/news/public-meet-redirection.html<p>OSP > BDM</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_khoroto.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7184" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_khoroto.jpg" title="IMG_khoroto"></a></p>
<p>Tonight, OSP public meet will be redirected to <em>Bar du matin at 18.30. </em></p><p>OSP > BDM</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_khoroto.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7184" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_khoroto.jpg" title="IMG_khoroto"></a></p>
<p>Tonight, OSP public meet will be redirected to <em>Bar du matin at 18.30. </em></p>Switch2012-06-21T15:35:00+02:002012-06-21T15:35:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2012-06-21:/news/switch.html<pre><code> the aftermath of
√
You're witnessing the 21-22 June 2012
OSP live layouting session, we're switching
to the iceberg paradigm the post-by-commit
way of showing our work.
Most of osper's are here for it.
Yeah. Crosswheels on ice.
And plenty of server jumps.
</code></pre>
<p><img alt="Extract from 2008_Laoshan_Bicycle_Moto_Cross_(BMX)_Venue by
Doma-w" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7156" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/iceberg-cross-1.png" title="iceberg-cross-1"></p><pre><code> the aftermath of
√
You're witnessing the 21-22 June 2012
OSP live layouting session, we're switching
to the iceberg paradigm the post-by-commit
way of showing our work.
Most of osper's are here for it.
Yeah. Crosswheels on ice.
And plenty of server jumps.
</code></pre>
<p><img alt="Extract from 2008_Laoshan_Bicycle_Moto_Cross_(BMX)_Venue by
Doma-w" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-7156" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/iceberg-cross-1.png" title="iceberg-cross-1"></p>The LGRU house is warming up!2012-02-21T21:44:00+01:002012-02-21T21:44:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2012-02-21:/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up.html<p>How can we re-imagine lay-out from scratch? What tools do we need to
support decentralized collaboration? How can we bring together canvas
editing, dynamic lay-outs, web-to-print and Print On Demand in more
interesting ways?</p>
<p>These are the questions developed at the Libre Graphics Research unit
<a href="http://lgru.net/archives/276" title="LGRU Co-Position research meeting program">Co-position
meeting</a>.
The <a href="http://lgru.net/" title="Libre Graphics Research Unit">LGRU</a> is …</p><p>How can we re-imagine lay-out from scratch? What tools do we need to
support decentralized collaboration? How can we bring together canvas
editing, dynamic lay-outs, web-to-print and Print On Demand in more
interesting ways?</p>
<p>These are the questions developed at the Libre Graphics Research unit
<a href="http://lgru.net/archives/276" title="LGRU Co-Position research meeting program">Co-position
meeting</a>.
The <a href="http://lgru.net/" title="Libre Graphics Research Unit">LGRU</a> is a
research project developed by a number of European Media Art
institutions, inspired in part by the practice of OSP.</p>
<p>The Variable house fills progressively with guests that will develop
those questions the next four days! As a pre-meeting, our friends Ana
and Ricardo have lead a colorfont workshop. Many of us will also take
part in the meeting, presenting and managing work sessions.</p>
<p>Saturday, the 25th of February, between 13:30 and 15:30 at <a href="http://www.halles.be/">Halles de
Schaerbeek</a>, we conclude with a presentation of
prototypes and discussion chaired by Angela Plohman (Baltanlabs,
Eindhoven). With : Ana Carvalho, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Camille Bissuel,
Antonio Roberts and many others.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7898"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7898.jpg" title="IMG_7898"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7895"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7895.jpg" title="IMG_7895"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7888"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7888.jpg" title="IMG_7888"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7857"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7857.jpg" title="IMG_7857"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7845"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7845.jpg" title="IMG_7845"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7836"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7836.jpg" title="IMG_7836"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/img_7900"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7900.jpg" title="IMG_7900"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-lgru-house-is-warming-up/attachment/lgru-coposition-25-02-dualcirclespng"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lgru-coposition-25-02-dualcirclespng.png" title="lgru-coposition-25-02-dualcirclespng"></a></p>Colored beehive2012-02-11T15:45:00+01:002012-02-11T15:45:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2012-02-11:/fonts/colored-beehive.html<p>Ana and Ricardo, our friends from
<a href="http://www.manufacturaindependente.org/" title="Manufacturaindependente">Manufacturaindependente</a>,
have join us at Variable house for a February residency busy with the
preparation of the <a href="http://lgru.net/archives/276">LGRU Co-position research
meeting</a>. In the beehive, maybe a
pre-workshop about Colorfonts?<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png"><img alt="manufacturaindependente -
Bonjourvariable" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7003" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png" title="Bonjourvariable"></a></p><p>Ana and Ricardo, our friends from
<a href="http://www.manufacturaindependente.org/" title="Manufacturaindependente">Manufacturaindependente</a>,
have join us at Variable house for a February residency busy with the
preparation of the <a href="http://lgru.net/archives/276">LGRU Co-position research
meeting</a>. In the beehive, maybe a
pre-workshop about Colorfonts?<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png"><img alt="manufacturaindependente -
Bonjourvariable" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-7003" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Bonjourvariable.png" title="Bonjourvariable"></a></p>Might2011-12-12T21:25:00+01:002011-12-12T21:25:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-12-12:/news/might.html<p>Our friends <a href="http://nadine.be/">Nadine</a> and
<a href="http://uberknackig.com">Überknackig</a> have opened a nice place, the
<a href="http://uberknackig.com/might-shop" title="the Might Shop">Might shop</a>, just a
few hundred meters of our Variable house using the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/crickx">Crickx
font</a> at its full
potential!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-12-12-202054.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6938" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-12-12-202054.jpg" title="Might Shop"></a></p><p>Our friends <a href="http://nadine.be/">Nadine</a> and
<a href="http://uberknackig.com">Überknackig</a> have opened a nice place, the
<a href="http://uberknackig.com/might-shop" title="the Might Shop">Might shop</a>, just a
few hundred meters of our Variable house using the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/crickx">Crickx
font</a> at its full
potential!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-12-12-202054.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6938" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-12-12-202054.jpg" title="Might Shop"></a></p>Reglo2011-11-18T17:09:00+01:002011-11-18T17:09:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-11-18:/news/reglo.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/reglo.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6922" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/reglo.png" title="reglo"></a></p>
<p>We used Reglo Bold for the new identity of Radio Panik and we are happy
to release it today on the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/reglo/">OSP
foundry</a> under open
source license</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/reglo.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6922" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/reglo.png" title="reglo"></a></p>
<p>We used Reglo Bold for the new identity of Radio Panik and we are happy
to release it today on the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/reglo/">OSP
foundry</a> under open
source license</p>Relearn2011-11-12T17:32:00+01:002011-11-12T17:32:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-11-12:/news/relearn.html<p>Un essai en plusieurs parties, écrit pour
<a href="http://www.bat-editions.net/∆⅄⎈.html" title="∆⅄⎈">∆⅄⎈</a>, la nouvelle revue des
<a href="http://www.bat-editions.net/" title="Éditions BAT">éditions BAT</a>. 5 ans après
le début d'OSP, il est temps de faire un point sur les influences
sociales des logiciels libres sur notre pratique du design.</p>
<p>Lisible sur la plateforme f-u-t-u-r-e.org:
<a href="http://f-u-t-u-r-e.org/r/02_OSP_Relearn_FR.md">f-u-t-u-r-e.org/r/02_OSP_Relearn_FR.md</a></p>
<p>Aussi …</p><p>Un essai en plusieurs parties, écrit pour
<a href="http://www.bat-editions.net/∆⅄⎈.html" title="∆⅄⎈">∆⅄⎈</a>, la nouvelle revue des
<a href="http://www.bat-editions.net/" title="Éditions BAT">éditions BAT</a>. 5 ans après
le début d'OSP, il est temps de faire un point sur les influences
sociales des logiciels libres sur notre pratique du design.</p>
<p>Lisible sur la plateforme f-u-t-u-r-e.org:
<a href="http://f-u-t-u-r-e.org/r/02_OSP_Relearn_FR.md">f-u-t-u-r-e.org/r/02_OSP_Relearn_FR.md</a></p>
<p>Aussi disponible comme fichier
pdf: <a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-bat-10-10-1.pdf">Relearn</a></p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://www.bat-editions.net/%E2%88%86%E2%85%84%E2%8E%88/BAT_%E2%88%86%E2%85%84%E2%8E%88_N1-2-web.jpg" title="∆⅄⎈"></p>
<p>Le texte est écrit à plusieurs mains, sur plusieurs plates-formes, et
résulte de discussions avec des personnes supplémentaires aux
signataires finaux:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/superia_400_6_bij_6_jul_tot_sept_2011_10.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/superia_400_6_bij_6_jul_tot_sept_2011_10.jpg" title="superia_400_6_bij_6_jul_tot_sept_2011_10"></a></p>Building archives landscapes plotter2011-10-22T11:37:00+02:002011-10-22T11:37:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-10-22:/live/building-archives-landscapes-plotter.html<p>Invited at <a href="http://www.ooooo.be/interpunctie">Interpunctie project van
Bolwerk</a>, we excavate into the 10+
years of archives by building <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git">the first bricks of
tools</a> to draw
a landscape thanks to bash and python scripts + the <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-tutorial.html">legacy Fontforge
scripting
language</a>.</p>
<p>[gallery link="file"]</p><p>Invited at <a href="http://www.ooooo.be/interpunctie">Interpunctie project van
Bolwerk</a>, we excavate into the 10+
years of archives by building <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.residency.masereel.git">the first bricks of
tools</a> to draw
a landscape thanks to bash and python scripts + the <a href="http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/scripting-tutorial.html">legacy Fontforge
scripting
language</a>.</p>
<p>[gallery link="file"]</p>Gallibre2011-08-24T21:23:00+02:002011-08-24T21:23:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-08-24:/live/gallibre.html<p>We moved.<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1696.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6704" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1696.jpg" title="IMAG1696"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1050392.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6704" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1050392.jpg" title="P1050392"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1697.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6704" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1697.jpg" title="IMAG1697"></a></p><p>We moved.<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1696.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6704" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1696.jpg" title="IMAG1696"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1050392.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6704" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1050392.jpg" title="P1050392"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1697.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6704" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG1697.jpg" title="IMAG1697"></a></p>VoidCon 20112011-07-08T10:13:00+02:002011-07-08T10:13:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-07-08:/live/voidcon-2011.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6606" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/void.png" title="void"><br>
Saturday July 16: find OSP at <a href="http://www.voidwarranties.be/index.php/VoidCon2011">VoidCon
2011</a>, organised by
the Antwerp hackerspace <a href="http://www.voidwarranties.be">VoidWarranties</a>.</p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6606" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/void.png" title="void"><br>
Saturday July 16: find OSP at <a href="http://www.voidwarranties.be/index.php/VoidCon2011">VoidCon
2011</a>, organised by
the Antwerp hackerspace <a href="http://www.voidwarranties.be">VoidWarranties</a>.</p>Tot Later2011-06-15T16:38:00+02:002011-06-15T16:38:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-06-15:/news/tot-later.html<p><em>Tot Later</em> has arrived!<br>
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6544" src="{filename}/images/uploads/totlater1.jpg" title="totlater"></p>
<p><strong>Presentation this Friday 17 June 19:00-21:00</strong><br>
Constant / Rue du Fortstraat 5, 1060 Brussels<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
In 2008 An Mertens showed a beta-version of the distributed novel
<strong>CIAO/Tot Later</strong> in the exhibition Place@Space/NowHere in Z33 Hasselt.
Years passed by and now she's ready to …</p><p><em>Tot Later</em> has arrived!<br>
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-6544" src="{filename}/images/uploads/totlater1.jpg" title="totlater"></p>
<p><strong>Presentation this Friday 17 June 19:00-21:00</strong><br>
Constant / Rue du Fortstraat 5, 1060 Brussels<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
In 2008 An Mertens showed a beta-version of the distributed novel
<strong>CIAO/Tot Later</strong> in the exhibition Place@Space/NowHere in Z33 Hasselt.
Years passed by and now she's ready to present her novel CIAO/Tot Later
- the author’s cut, accompanied by a digital story narrated through
webpages. The book was designed and typeset by OSP and printed by
<a href="http://www.hollandridderkerk.nl/">Holland Ridderkerk</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.adashboard.org">http://www.adashboard.org</a></p>A challenging programme2011-06-05T18:18:00+02:002011-06-05T18:18:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-06-05:/education/a-challenging-programme.html<p><em>Our friends from the Master Media Design & Communication: Networked
Media are accepting candidates for next academic year until <strong>July 1
2011</strong>. OSP enthusiastically recommends this exceptional design program,
where F/LOSS is the norm:</em></p>
<p><a href="http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/">Master Media Design & Communication: Networked
Media</a><br>
Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research<br>
Willem de Kooning Academy …</p><p><em>Our friends from the Master Media Design & Communication: Networked
Media are accepting candidates for next academic year until <strong>July 1
2011</strong>. OSP enthusiastically recommends this exceptional design program,
where F/LOSS is the norm:</em></p>
<p><a href="http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/">Master Media Design & Communication: Networked
Media</a><br>
Institute for Postgraduate Studies and Research<br>
Willem de Kooning Academy / Rotterdam University Netherlands<br>
**************************************************<br>
Call for Applications<br>
Deadline July 1st, 2011 for EU/EEA students
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media<br>
For application info & tuition fees see below<br>
**************************************************</p>
<p>The Master Media Design & Communication: Networked Media is
internationally known as the new media study programme at the Piet Zwart
Institute. We offer a Master programme focused on a critical engagement
with the culture of the Internet and computer media, their artistic
design, technology and theory. We are a small, English-taught, two-year
full-time Master course with a multidisciplinary community and have a
strong emphasis on personal contact and collaboration. Our students,
faculty members and guests come, among others, from the USA, France,
Serbia, Italy, Austria, Pakistan, Turkey, and our 24/7 studio facilities
allow you to make our school your workplace.<br>
<!--more--><br>
We offer a challenging programme with trimestrial thematic projects,
theoretical discussions and technical sessions. Next to studying
networked media through practice and theoretical research, you will
share select courses and group critiques with Lens-based Media staff and
students. This other specialisation within the Master Media Design &
Communication programme, explores the potential of digital lens-based
imagery. Parallel to group learning, students also receive strong
tutorial support through weekly individual meetings with staff and
guests.</p>
<p>Whether you are a graphic designer wanting to develop your digital media
practice more thoroughly, an audiovisual artist interested in a more
informed and self-made media practice, an architect interested in media
as systems that impose social possibilities and constraints, a media
activist wanting to develop both practical and theoretical tools of
intervention, a computer and electronics experimenter wanting to sharpen
her or his artistic concepts, a media artist/designer looking for
research-oriented study in an international community of peers - this is
what our programme makes possible.</p>
<p>**************************************************<br>
Free & Open Source / Thematic Projects / Staff / Guest Lecturers<br>
**************************************************<br>
Free and Open Source Software:<br>
Our Master program strives for the creation of media, instead of
creating with off-the-shelf and out-of-the-box technology. This is why
Free and Open Source Software are an important aspect of our course,
philosophically and technologically.</p>
<p>Thematic Projects:<br>
For an overview of some of our most recent Thematic Projects see:
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/category/study-programme/thematic-projects/</p>
<p>Staff:<br>
Renee Turner: Course Director, member of De Geuzen, MFA (University of
Arizona), MA in Creative Writing and New Media (De Montfort University),
Laureate in Theory, Jan Van Eyck Academie<br>
Aymeric Mansoux: Core Tutor/Co-supervisor, artist and software
developer, Puredyne GNU/Linux, make art festival, FLOSS+Art, MFA (Ecole
Europeenne Superieure and de l'Image, Poitiers), MA Digital Arts
(Universite de Poitiers et La Rochelle)<br>
Michael Murtaugh: Core Tutor/Prototyping (Master from the MIT Media Lab,
USA), interaction designer, Active Archives, member of Constant (BE)<br>
Steve Rushton: Writing Tutor, founding member of Signal:Noise - a
cross-disciplinary research project exploring the influence of
cybernetics and feedback<br>
Stock: Technical Tutorial Support, hardware guru, formerly V2_ labs,
Mr. Stock Interfaces<br>
Brigit "Evo" Lichtenegger: Systems Administrator/Technical Tutorial
Support, interactive artist<br>
Leslie Robbins: Project Coordinator, MFA (HdK Berlin), artist and member
of artist initiatives Duende and Occupying Space</p>
<p>Selection of previous guest lecturers and thematic project tutors:<br>
Arie Altena, Inke Arns, Aram Bartholl, Mez Breeze, Michel Chevalier,
Theo Deutinger , Rod Dickinson , De Geuzen, Andreas Leo Findeisen,
Daniel Gross + Joris Maltha, Rui Guerra, Seda Guerses, Christoph Haag,
jodi, jaromil, Dmytri Kleiner, Olia Lialina, Nicolas Maleve, Luna
Maurer, Metahaven, Mirko Tobias Schaefer, Edward Shanken, Lukas Simonis,
Femke Snelting, Michelle Teran, Jon Thomson + Alison Craighead, Roel
Wouters, Danja Vasiliev + Gordan Savicic / moddr_</p>
<p>**************************************************<br>
Deadlines / Tuition Fees / Applications / Contact<br>
**************************************************<br>
Deadlines:<br>
European students who will receive their Bachelor degrees in summer 2011
can already apply now. The next deadline for non-EU students is May 1st
2012.</p>
<p>Tuition:<br>
For EU/EEA students, (who have applied for their first master course in
the Netherlands) the annual tuition fee for the full-time course in
2011/12 is 1713 Euro.</p>
<p>Applications:<br>
For application forms, application criteria and further information on
our curriculum or public programme, please see
http://pzwart.wdka.nl/networked-media/category/apply/application/</p>
<p>Contact:<br>
For further questions contact Leslie Robbins: l.j.drost-robbins -at-
hro.nl</p>Sans Guilt, it looks like the story continues2011-05-27T20:21:00+02:002011-05-27T20:21:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-05-27:/fonts/sans-guilt-it-looks-like-the-story-continues.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"></p>
<p><small>Do you remember that we sent <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/typo/it-looks-like-we-are-sending-a-letter">a
letter</a>
a few weeks ago. We are finally expecting an answer from our
correspondent and we feel it is time to reveal the content of this
letter. Feel free to react to this letter either on this blog, by mail
or on any …</small></p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"></p>
<p><small>Do you remember that we sent <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/typo/it-looks-like-we-are-sending-a-letter">a
letter</a>
a few weeks ago. We are finally expecting an answer from our
correspondent and we feel it is time to reveal the content of this
letter. Feel free to react to this letter either on this blog, by mail
or on any other <a href="http://typophile.com/node/82567">type centric
sites</a>.</small></p>
<p>========================================<br>
From:<br>
Open Source Publishing<br>
Rue du Fortstraat 5<br>
1060 Bruxelles, Belgium<br>
mail@ospublish.constantvzw.org</p>
<p>To:<br>
Monotype Imaging headquarters<br>
500 Unicorn Park Drive<br>
Woburn, MA USA 01801<br>
us@monotype.com</p>
<p>Brussels, 11 April 2011</p>
<p>Dear Monotype,</p>
<p>We are writing you because we just published Sans Guilt [1], which is
a reinterpretation of the Gill Sans released under an Open Font license.</p>
<p>We are OSP [2], a design collective based in Brussels that has been
working with Free and Open Source software since 2006.</p>
<p>We believe that the 71th anniversary of the death of Eric Gill implies
that his work is now in the public domain. To mark this anniversary we
decided to liberate the Gill Sans and make a free and open source
release of it.</p>
<p>We created three variants from different sources. One was scanned from
original drawings (Sans Guilt Drawing Based — DB), another from
hand-printed letterpress (Sans Guilt Lead Based — LB) and a third had a
digital file as a basis (Sans Guilt Monotype Based — MB). The work was
done in collaboration with students from the Royal College of Art in
London.</p>
<p>Our liberation of the Gill Sans raises legal and ethical questions
surrounding proprietary font software and works of typography that are
in the public domain. As designers, we can not answer those questions
theoretically so the Sans Guilt project is an attempt at finding
practical answers.</p>
<p>To us it seems that the central question about any font reinterpretation
is that of identifying and transforming material sources. Throughout
history fonts have always been adapted from previous renderings, often
transposing the design from one technology to another.</p>
<p>In order to explore this historical context and to understand how to
work with this complicated matter, we released Sans Guilt. The
DB-variant is based on original drawings by Eric Gill that we found in
the RCA library. The images were scanned and then traced using a custom
software to produce PostScript outlines. The LB-variant started from the
Gill Sans letterpress available at the RCA printshop. Students manually
printed the movable type and than scanned the result.</p>
<p>The third variant is possibly the most problematic. Because to us the
digital is material too, we wondered if we could use a digital source as
a starting point for liberating the Gill Sans. For the MB-variant we set
a text in a page layout software with a licensed Monotype Gill Sans.
This text was then turned into a bitmap and ran through a software that
converted each glyph back into a PostScript outline.</p>
<p>Although Gill Sans as a design work is in the public domain, the font
software that we used to create the material sources for our
reinterpretation is not. In the case of computer fonts there is a
blurring of boundaries between technology and visual design. By turning
the text into a bitmap image we did not reuse any part of the digital
information of the Monotype Gill Sans itself. We believe that the bitmap
is solely a representation of the design work of Eric Gill which we
consider to be in the public domain since 2010.</p>
<p>With the creation of Sans Guilt and by writing you this letter we are
trying to clarify the complicated legal matter around typographical
heritage, technology and intellectual property and we are looking
forward to discuss the implications with you.</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>OSP</p>
<p>[1] http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/sans-guilt<br>
[2] http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/about</p>Also the smell of durian is missing2011-05-23T17:27:00+02:002011-05-23T17:27:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-05-23:/news/also-the-smell-of-durian-is-missing.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=55"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6434" height="66" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-04-05-DSC_0466-100x66.jpg" title="2011-04-05-DSC_0466" width="100"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=55"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6434" height="66" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-04-02-DSC_0179-66x100.jpg" title="2011-04-02-DSC_0179" width="100"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=55"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6434" height="66" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-04-15-DSC_0125-66x100.jpg" title="2011-04-15-DSC_0125" width="100"></a><br>
But some pictures from our two weeks in Vietnam.</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=55"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6434" height="66" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-04-05-DSC_0466-100x66.jpg" title="2011-04-05-DSC_0466" width="100"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=55"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6434" height="66" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-04-02-DSC_0179-66x100.jpg" title="2011-04-02-DSC_0179" width="100"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=55"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-6434" height="66" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2011-04-15-DSC_0125-66x100.jpg" title="2011-04-15-DSC_0125" width="100"></a><br>
But some pictures from our two weeks in Vietnam.</p>First Contact2011-05-23T10:50:00+02:002011-05-23T10:50:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-05-23:/news/first-contact.html<p><strong>Tomorrow/morgen/demain: First Contact!</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://hackerspace.be/ScanBot"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6475" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/500px-ScanbotA1.jpg" title="500px-ScanbotA1"></a></p>
<p>[EN] Tuesday 24 May @ 19:00 the <a href="https://hackerspace.be/ScanBot">D.I.Y.
bookscanner</a> built by/in Hackerspace
Brussels will be operated for the first time through a speculative
software that Pierre Marchand developed with contributions from John
Haltiwanger. The experiment traverses text, image and data and plays …</p><p><strong>Tomorrow/morgen/demain: First Contact!</strong></p>
<p><a href="https://hackerspace.be/ScanBot"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-6475" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/500px-ScanbotA1.jpg" title="500px-ScanbotA1"></a></p>
<p>[EN] Tuesday 24 May @ 19:00 the <a href="https://hackerspace.be/ScanBot">D.I.Y.
bookscanner</a> built by/in Hackerspace
Brussels will be operated for the first time through a speculative
software that Pierre Marchand developed with contributions from John
Haltiwanger. The experiment traverses text, image and data and plays
with the various textures in-between. The code is under development and
written in preparation of Constant Verbindingen/Jonctions 2011. Bring
Your Books!<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
[NL] Dinsdag 24 Mei @ 19:00 zal de <a href="%20%3Ca%20href=">D.I.Y.
bookscanner</a> gebouwd door/in Hackerspace Brussel voor
het eerst worden aangestuurd door een speculatieve software die Pierre
Marchand ontwikkelt met bijdragen van John Haltiwanger. Het experiment
doorkruist tekst, beeld en data en speelt met de verschillende texturen
ertussenin. De code is geschreven in voorbereiding op Constant
Verbindingen/Jonctions 2011. Breng je boeken mee!<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
[FR] Mardi 24 mai @ 19:00 le <a href="%20%3Ca%20href=">D.I.Y. bookscanner</a>
construit par/dans le Hackerspace Brussels sera pour la première fois
piloté par un logiciel spéculative conçu par Pierre Marchand avec des
contributions de John Haltiwanger. L’expérimente traverse le texte,
l'image et les données et joue avec leurs textures différentes. Le code
est développé et rédigé en préparation de Constant
Verbindingen/Jonctions 2011. Apportez Vos Livres!<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
Prinses Elisabethlaan 46, 1030 Schaarbeek (BE) / Av. Princesse Elisabeth
46, 1030 Schaerbeek (BE)<br>
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<br>
<a href="https://hackerspace.be/ScanBot">https://hackerspace.be/ScanBot</a><br>
<a href="http://oep-h.com">http://oep-h.com</a><br>
<a href="http://drippingdigital.com">http://drippingdigital.com</a></p>Making a living2011-05-09T22:37:00+02:002011-05-09T22:37:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-05-09:/works/making-a-living.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_pink.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_pink-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_pink" width="77"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_green.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_green-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_green" width="77"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_turq.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_turq-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_turq" width="77"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_blue.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_blue-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_blue" width="77"></a><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving.pdf">makingaliving.pdf</a><br>
<small>OSP contribution for the LGM Tools-exhibit in
<a href="http://www.studioxx.org/">StudioXX</a>, Montreal.</small></p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_pink.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_pink-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_pink" width="77"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_green.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_green-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_green" width="77"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_turq.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_turq-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_turq" width="77"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_blue.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6376" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving_blue-77x100.jpg" title="makingaliving_blue" width="77"></a><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingaliving.pdf">makingaliving.pdf</a><br>
<small>OSP contribution for the LGM Tools-exhibit in
<a href="http://www.studioxx.org/">StudioXX</a>, Montreal.</small></p>a long day2011-05-07T04:52:00+02:002011-05-07T04:52:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-05-07:/news/a-long-day.html<p>[gallery link="file" orderby="rand"]</p><p>[gallery link="file" orderby="rand"]</p>Third workshop @ pre-LGM2011-04-30T11:35:00+02:002011-04-30T11:35:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-30:/news/third-workshop-pre-lgm.html<p><a href="">[caption id="attachment_6332" align="alignleft" width="400"
caption="Joy Penroz using Toonloop (Mérida, Yucatán,
México)"]</a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/toonloop_periferia.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6332" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/toonloop_periferia.jpg" title="toonloop_periferia"></a>[/caption]</a></p>
<p>We're happy to announce that <a href="http://alexandre.quessy.net">Alexandre
Quessy</a> will join us next weekend for a
<a href="http://alexandre.quessy.net/?q=toonloop">Toonloop</a> animation-workshop
at <a href="http://www.studioxx.org/en/">StudioXX</a>.</p>
<p>For the workshops on Saturday, places are limited. Please register
through <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/registration">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011 …</a></p><p><a href="">[caption id="attachment_6332" align="alignleft" width="400"
caption="Joy Penroz using Toonloop (Mérida, Yucatán,
México)"]</a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/toonloop_periferia.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6332" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/toonloop_periferia.jpg" title="toonloop_periferia"></a>[/caption]</a></p>
<p>We're happy to announce that <a href="http://alexandre.quessy.net">Alexandre
Quessy</a> will join us next weekend for a
<a href="http://alexandre.quessy.net/?q=toonloop">Toonloop</a> animation-workshop
at <a href="http://www.studioxx.org/en/">StudioXX</a>.</p>
<p>For the workshops on Saturday, places are limited. Please register
through <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/registration">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/registration</a> and
mention the workshop(s) of your choice in the comments box. First in,
first served :-)</p>
<p>Of course you are always welcome to drop by while workshops are going
on. For the <strong>Famous People</strong> session on Sunday we try to fit as many as
possible. Just bring your laptop and a proposal for a VIP to add to the
collection.</p>
<p>SATURDAY 7 MAY<br>
A. 11:00-16:00 <strong>Digital Pattern Making</strong> (Susan Spencer)<br>
B. 11:00-16:00 <strong>Toonloop animation</strong> (Alexandre Quessy)</p>
<p>SUNDAY 8 MAY<br>
C. 13:00-17:00 <strong>Famous People</strong> (Brad Phillips, ginger coons, Tom
Lechner, ...)</p>
<p>On Saturday there is also a debate and exhibition opening. More details
here:
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/pre-lgm%20">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/pre-lgm</a></p>pre-LGM: famous people and digital patterns2011-04-22T10:20:00+02:002011-04-22T10:20:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-22:/news/pre-lgm-famous-people-and-digital-patterns.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pants.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pants1-87x100.jpg" title="pants" width="87"></a>We
are busy preparing <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/pre-lgm">pre-LGM
activities</a> (6-9 May)
and happy to report that it looks like an exciting weekend already. As a
way to warm up for the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a>,
<a href="http://www.studioxx.org/">StudioXX</a> will host a Digital Pattern Making
workshop, a celebrity draw-off and an exhibition. <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/">ginger
coons</a> is gathering a …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pants.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pants1-87x100.jpg" title="pants" width="87"></a>We
are busy preparing <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/pre-lgm">pre-LGM
activities</a> (6-9 May)
and happy to report that it looks like an exciting weekend already. As a
way to warm up for the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a>,
<a href="http://www.studioxx.org/">StudioXX</a> will host a Digital Pattern Making
workshop, a celebrity draw-off and an exhibition. <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/">ginger
coons</a> is gathering a 'jury' of designers,
illustrators and developers for a public discussion about the works in
the exhibition and our relation to tools. For the exhibition you are
still welcome to submit files - see the call here:
<a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/blog/2011/04/tools-call-for-submissions">http://libregraphicsmag.com/blog/2011/04/tools-call-for-submissions</a></p>
<p>Workshops are free to attend but places are limited so please register
here: <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/registration">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/registration</a> and
mention the workshop(s) of your choice in the comments box.</p>
<p>You can find latest info on the
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/pre-lgm">LGM-website</a> but to
give an idea of what we are cooking up:</p>
<!--more-->
<h3>Saturday May 7</h3>
<p>Morning: <strong>Digital Pattern Making Workshop</strong> (workshop with Susan
Spencer)</p>
<p>Participants with Inkscape, Python & pySVG loaded on their laptops will
learn to transfer a 19th century pattern into python code, and generate
this pattern using their own measurements. To complete the workshop and
illustrate the practical and creative nature of the software, each
student will be provided scissors, needle, thread, muslin, and sewing
machine to cut out and sew their garment with simple sewing techniques.
No previous sewing level is required! Both sexes are encouraged to
attend. Each student will leave the workshop with a simply constructed
version of their garment, and a printed copy of their customized
pattern.</p>
<p>Afternoon: <strong>Debate</strong> and <strong>Exhibition opening</strong></p>
<p>Location: Studio XX: 4001, rue Berri, suite 201 – between Duluth and
Roy, métro Sherbrooke (550 m) or métro Mont-Royal (700 m).</p>
<h3>Sunday May 8</h3>
<p>Morning: <strong>Famous People</strong> (illustration workshop with Brad Phillips,
ginger coons, …)<br>
<a href="http://openclipart.org/packages-famous-people">http://openclipart.org/packages-famous-people</a></p>
<p>Who are these Famous People? What are four versions of Che Guevarra, one
single woman (and a statue) and the author of Fahrenheit 451 doing in
the same collection? The category “Famous People” at the OpenClipart
library is both monomaniac and all over the place, begging to be
populated with inspiring rolemodels, shining stars, super-heroines and
other top cats.<br>
At this workshop amazing artists working with Gimp, Krita and Inkscape
will get together to update the Famous People category from the
OpenClipArt Library. Illustrators, fans or both please bring an image of
your favourite celebrity and find out about how to create clipart with
VIP status.<br>
The OpenClipart Library is a wonderful collection of clipart dedicated
to the public domain. It means you can copy, modify, distribute and
perform all of it (also for commercial purposes) without asking
permission.</p>Asian Record, side B2011-04-21T14:58:00+02:002011-04-21T14:58:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-21:/fonts/asian-record-side-b.html<h1>Monday</h1>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6221" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="<a href="\%22http://opendesign.asia/">opendesign.asia</a>"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg" title="DSC_0633"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6222" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Vi Mã Đăng installing OSP's posters at Café
3D."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg" title="P1060327"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Its akward, it's unconfortable, but we want to put ourselves in a
position of welcoming a happy accident, a <em>trong …</em></p><h1>Monday</h1>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6221" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="<a href="\%22http://opendesign.asia/">opendesign.asia</a>"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0633.jpg" title="DSC_0633"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6222" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Vi Mã Đăng installing OSP's posters at Café
3D."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060327.jpg" title="P1060327"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Its akward, it's unconfortable, but we want to put ourselves in a
position of welcoming a happy accident, a <em>trong ruì có may</em>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0123.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0123.jpg" title="IMAG0123"></a><br>
<!--more--><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0665.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0665.jpg" title="DSC_0665"></a></p>
<p><em>(Tomorrow, not forget :<br>
— printer<br>
— walking<br>
— reformat usb sticks<br>
— osm account)</em></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0666.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0666.jpg" title="DSC_0666"></a></p>
<p>We make a tour with GPS and cameras to chase stencil letters in
priority, and some hand-painted letters.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060378.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060378.jpg" title="P1060378"></a></p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6246" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Redrawn stencil letters, on lots of
walls"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060405.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060405.jpg" title="P1060405"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060368.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060368.jpg" title="P1060368"></a></p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6244" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Some less stencils, even if the reverse leftover of a vinyl
cutting operation is barely always throw away, it can be used also, and
is composed of islands and sea. Stickers are
everywhere."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060400.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060400.jpg" title="P1060400"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6245" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Maybe at a more high pace than on other places, machine vinyl
cutting letters make hand-drawn lettering goes
rare"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060408.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060408.jpg" title="P1060408"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Participants ask what is so interesting in those daily life pictures.
Pierre Marchand says that, this is exactly daily life as they say, but
if they learn how to look at it and how to change it, then it will
change radically this daily life/landscape.</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6220" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="When possible to wrap it, wrap it. Here the ceiling of a
taxi."]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060228.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060228.jpg" title="P1060228"></a>[/caption]</p>
<h1>Tuesday</h1>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060330.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060330.jpg" title="P1060330"></a></p>
<p>We work with bare feet<br>
Maybe are we at the meristem (Méristème) where cells are not yet
specialised - where we are in danger<br>
The professor illustrator who draws beautiful curves so easily on
Coreldraw ask for more step by step operations<br>
(Tape, Ferrer maybe)<br>
Connecting with the city, with the territory<br>
- Bring a flat surface to be able to work less bended</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0817.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0817.jpg" title="DSC_0817"></a></p>
<p>We are making fonts based on previous day pictures. The morning we learn
how to use gimp/inkscape/fontforge to autotrace a letter from a picture
and how to produce a font.</p>
<h1>Wednesday</h1>
<p>"Unicode's normative definition is not as informative as it might be
(many of the Greek accents are "unified" with Latin accents that the
don't really look like, the result is that following Unicode slavishly
will yield the wrong glyph). So in some cases FontForge will use a
slightly different set of glyphs than the normative decomposition." —
Georges Williams (http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/accented.html)</p>
<p><a href="http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/vietalphabet.html">http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/vietalphabet.html</a></p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6252" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="how to define the thickness and the curve of a tilde relative
to letters thickness in a non-typographic system as the DIN
one?"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0931.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0931.jpg" title="DSC_0931"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>"Too much excited to put the vietnamese diacritics everywhere, Nhan
Nguyễn and the 2 Pierres decide to spent the afternoon in the garden of
the "3D Café" in Can Tho under the endless loop of vn muzak
(<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqtCvoBXck">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igqtCvoBXck</a> seems a must) impossible
to avoid if you want to have access to an electrical outlet. Prince
prepared a py + qt script to inject automatically the needed<br>
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vVwWxXyYỳỲỷỶỹỸýÝỵỴzZ<br>
Nhan propose some ways to draw them and Pierreh lost himself in the
osp-foundry to find the source files. Organically, after editing most of
our fonts, all more or less experimental in some way, we've been
attracted by our old chap Din, and ends up by editing most of the
diacritics to make them fits best with the Din principles (from what
font came the previous ones?). The night falls suddenly
-near-equator-style- without finishing, but with all the actors ready
for tomorrow's first activity of the morning : the "up, more down, a bit
less at the right, slightly to the left" collective game of positioning
ready-to-use component diacritics. Back to the hotel with a discussions
about the iterative but programmatic process of producing a font, itself
a program, a script in some way, or more mathematically,
factorisation... Let's go for another motor ride in town, now."</p>
<h1>Thursday</h1>
<p>Morning: We are practicing LiteralDraw in groups. Participants draw
letters.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0821.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0821.jpg" title="DSC_0821"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0829.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0829.jpg" title="DSC_0829"></a></p>
<p>Afternoon:<br>
We take advantage of the crazy fluidity of riding a motorbike in the
city. Some of the participants ride their motorbike and go draw letters
in the city, communicating by phone their position and movements to the
ones staying at the working space. Those ones report the instructions in
LiteralDraw to make letters in order to make a complete font.</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6254" align="alignnone" width="266"
caption="Chien Phan Quoc leaving for his first road
session"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0960.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0960.jpg" title="DSC_0960"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6259" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Lilly Nguyễn on her patient, smily and persistant work of
multitranslation"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0001.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0001.jpg" title="DSC_0001"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060546.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060546.jpg" title="P1060546"></a></p>
<p>First series of letters ended up being quite easy to do -- only skeleton
of letters, instructions given by phone were not so clear. Second
series: we want a real letter with skin and flesh, why not serifs or
stencil letters?</p>
<p>We add a
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%29">LOGO</a>/Turtle
mode to LiteralDraw.</p>
<h1>Friday</h1>
<p>Chien lost a complex LiteralDraw drawing yesterday for he didn't save
it. Discussions around the missing fishing net when you quit without
saving. Is LD a software like the others, or a more rough tool, an
in-between commandline and GUI tool?</p>
<p>LD was modified yesterday in two interesting ways.</p>
<p>For an even more "direct" or "straightforward" mode : no need for an end
anymore.<br>
So</p>
<pre><code>line 40 60
</code></pre>
<p>will not wait for a</p>
<pre><code>end
</code></pre>
<p>to draw the line (of course the end instruction is still very useful to
separate shapes)</p>
<p>For our rides in the city hunting letters shapes, we introduced the turn
instruction, with right, straight, left arguments, the distance and a
nuance (a deviation from the main direction)</p>
<p>Maybe more important is the introduction of variables, with the var
instruction! So we're now able to write</p>
<pre><code>change turn tourne
var 150 unpeu
var -10 presque
</code></pre>
<p>then</p>
<pre><code>tourne R unpeu presque
</code></pre>
<p>which is not real natural language programming, but which sounds quite
poetical for me.</p>
<p>Pushing it a bit, to go to typed variables to be able to</p>
<pre><code>tourne àdroite unpeu presque
</code></pre>
<p>or</p>
<pre><code>tourne à-droite un-peu presque
</code></pre>
<p>or even</p>
<pre><code>tourne à droite un peu presque
</code></pre>
<p>using non-breaking spaces between "un" et "peu" as a trick. So we
introduced number and string as replacements for var. LD is more and
more deeply connected to language.</p>
<p>The extention of OSP-DIN is a neverending work.</p>
<p>Sometimes we've used previous week's dictionary</p>
<pre><code>change line dòng
change stroke bút
change end trở—lại
change move di—chuyển
change cubic cong
change close đong
change fill điền—vào
change transform biến—đổi
change text văn—bản
change font kiểu—mâu
biến—đổi 0.6 0 0 0.6 0 -300
bút 180 0 200 1
điền—vào 250 100 100
di—chuyển 135.00 732.00
cong 134.00 691.00 178.00 660.00 241.00 659.00
cong 290.00 661.00 328.00 701.00 328.00 755.00
cong 378.00 665.00 441.00 643.00 521.00 677.00
cong 524.00 681.00 576.00 759.00 497.00 889.00
cong 496.67 891.67 411.67 960.00 330.00 986.67
cong 230.00 926.67 163.33 845.00 133.33 735.00
trở—lại
đong
di—chuyển 135.00 732.00
kiểu—mâu 30 0 0 Alfphabet
văn—bản we
</code></pre>
<p>[caption id="attachment_6256" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="With the golden frog at the
back"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0141.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0141.jpg" title="DSC_0141"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0191.jpg"><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6221" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0191.jpg" title="DSC_0191"></a></p>
<pre><code>Lilly Nguyễn Thong Tran
Thanh Tri Loi Kim
Trung Tran Minh Ngân Trương
Dat Huynh Phat Nam Pham
Quoc Nam Chien Phan Quoc
Vansau Duong Kiet Le
Lê Quốc Tuấn Xuan Phuong
Nhan Nguyễn Minh Đương Nguyễn
</code></pre>
<p><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/themes/osp/images/OIF.jpg"> </p>
<p><small>La participation OSP de l'Open Design Week a été rendue possible
grâce au soutien de l'OIF</small></p>
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</style>They will be back2011-04-18T22:03:00+02:002011-04-18T22:03:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-18:/news/they-will-be-back.html<p><a href="http://openfontlibrary.org"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6214" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/promise.png" title="promise"></a><br>
The <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org">Open Font Library</a> promises to be back
in time for the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011">Libre Graphics Meeting
2011</a>!</p><p><a href="http://openfontlibrary.org"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6214" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/promise.png" title="promise"></a><br>
The <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org">Open Font Library</a> promises to be back
in time for the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011">Libre Graphics Meeting
2011</a>!</p>It Looks Like We Are Sending A Letter2011-04-15T15:33:00+02:002011-04-15T15:33:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-15:/fonts/it-looks-like-we-are-sending-a-letter.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"><br>
<small>Brussels, April 15 @ 3:45 pm -- stay tuned for full story in 2
weeks</small></p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_2.jpeg" title="letter_2">
<img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6200" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/letter_1.jpeg" title="letter_1"><br>
<small>Brussels, April 15 @ 3:45 pm -- stay tuned for full story in 2
weeks</small></p>Asian record, side A2011-04-10T12:39:00+02:002011-04-10T12:39:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-10:/news/asian-record-side-a.html<h1>Saturday</h1>
<p>Our <a href="http://opendesign.asia/">Open Design Weeks</a> in Vietnam kicked off
at the Spotted Cow where we went for social drinks. There we met mainly
people from IT with programming backgrounds. We also got to know our new
friends from Cambodia. This was our first encounter with an on-going
theme of translation …</p><h1>Saturday</h1>
<p>Our <a href="http://opendesign.asia/">Open Design Weeks</a> in Vietnam kicked off
at the Spotted Cow where we went for social drinks. There we met mainly
people from IT with programming backgrounds. We also got to know our new
friends from Cambodia. This was our first encounter with an on-going
theme of translation issues. We found it difficult to move past a
certain point of conversation, though John managed to have several
interestingly recursive discussions about the problems in making
multilingual websites. After the long flight it was very nice to have
this chance to breath the Vietnamese air, dive in the moisture and soak
in some cold beers.</p>
<h1>Sunday</h1>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0165.jpg"><br>
Sunday morning began early at <a href="http://mythuat.edu.vn/">Ho Chi Minh City University of Fine
Arts</a> where we started with a presentation about
OSP to a crowded hall of over 300 people. By showing pictures we
introduced ourselves as well as the members who are absent from this
trip. Then to get even more familiar we each presented an example of our
work. Alex presented the Scribus-over-IRC process begun at the RCA
workshop, Stéphanie explained the workshop <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/education/posters-please-computer-make-me-design">Please Computer, Make Me
Design</a>,
Pierre Marchand showed off the evolution of Nancy to
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?s=fonzie">Fonzie</a> and hinted at what
is to come, John discussed generative typesetting with Context, while
Pierre Huyghebaert took the responsibility of giving the general
overview of OSP.<br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0163.jpg"><br>
In our practice we have continuous engagement with translation (between
graphic design, programming, poetics, cartography, ...) and it was quite
something to see Hong Phuc translating our translations (and sometimes
<em>not</em> translating).<br>
<!--more--></p>
<h2>Afternoon</h2>
<ul>
<li>pictures picking on the wall</li>
<li>different smiles</li>
<li>german dingbats dictee</li>
<li>2 dingbats actually vectorised</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0644.jpg"></p>
<h1>Monday</h1>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0190.jpg"></p>
<ul>
<li>Scribus irc</li>
<li>Full room of people</li>
<li>Aprons</li>
<li>A clear goal : poster for the exhibition</li>
<li>Hong Phuc embedded</li>
<li>Lily also</li>
<li>In the morning, sketches</li>
<li>Then Scribus demo</li>
<li>PierreH on the poster - others irc comments</li>
<li>but also designing their own versions</li>
<li>Poster unfinished, but lots of excitement of the added layers by
code</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0218.jpg"></p>
<pre><code> createLine(100,100,100,400)
VIET CAC CAU LENH LEN DAY
createEllipse(200,200,200,200)
loadImage("logo")
setFillShade(shade)
createEllipse(100,100,100,100)
createImage(50,50,200,300)
textFlowM
createLine(10, 10, 200, 200)
createLine(20, 10, 200, 200)
createLine(30, 10, 200, 200)
createLine(40, 10, 200, 200)
createLine(50, 10, 200, 200)
createEllipse(184,184,100,100)
createEllipse(184,188,100,100)
insertText(10,20,30)
createRect(25,35,50,50)
createText(1,1, 100,250)
createLine(20,20,60,60)
createPolyLine(list,["..."]
createPolygon(20,20,50,50,100,100)
setText("troi oi!!","Text1"))
createImage(50,50,300,300)
setFillColor("White","Polygon79")
</code></pre>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0231.jpg"><br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0294.jpg"><br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0308.jpg"><br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0321.jpg"><br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0323.jpg"></p>
<h1>Tuesday</h1>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0356.jpg"></p>
<ul>
<li>TMA experience</li>
<li>IT company</li>
<li>it seemed important for our hosts, Mario and Hong Phuc, that we give
a workshop there</li>
<li>Only Windows machines</li>
<li>so command-line workshops were not possible</li>
<li>Scribus IRC workshop - no printed manual, only online documentation</li>
<li>HTML 5 demo by Singaporian friends</li>
<li>Context/Pandoc demo - Failed to install context on Windows</li>
<li>typeset an ancient vietnamese poem</li>
<li>Tola's presentation of his company's activities: marketing for
good causes. We plan to add more on this later.</li>
</ul>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0354.jpg"><br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0406.jpg"></p>
<pre><code> createText(10,10,10,10,"Men tests")
createEllipse(200,200,200,200)
loadImage("logo")
</code></pre>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0374.jpg"><br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0387.jpg"><br>
If doubt, it became clear that day that we prefer to practice instead of
demoing.<br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0413.jpg"><br>
Wednesday we've been to a school in between marketing and design.<br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0418.jpg"><br>
The morning was to presentation by us and our friends from Singapore and
Cambodia. It was interesting to have different perspectives on
free/open-source cultures. Tola (Cambodia), from a different perspective
than the one of free software, talked about the power of
design/marketing for being used for good causes. Sophaep (Cambodia)
talked about ethical outsourcing and the intertwining of free software
into a business that is at once directed at and run by swiss foreigners
while maintaining an embedded existence within Cambodia. Emphasis was
given to the fact the company actually pays for software licenses when
it uses proprietary products, which is not only pretty unique here in
Southeast Asia but also not a universal in Europe.<br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0438.jpg"><br>
Luther from Square Crumbs instead emphasized using free software to
distinguish yourself from others, focusing on how reliable and
business-ready open-source is and how diverse the free software choices
are. It was refreshing to see all this variety in presenting free/open
source and it may have clarified somewhat OSP's own position by showing
it in relation to the perspectives of others. The [jam comparison]
9http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/the-four-freedoms-two-rules-and-one-jam)
worked more or less, but after some searching, the pickels must work
better in Vietnam!</p>
<h2>Afternoon</h2>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0515.jpg"><br>
LiteralDraw workshop --Pen & Paper for Computers, an introduction to
graphical output device-- failed to make a Windows .exe We ran the
software on our own machines, making groups of students discovering the
software with the students Translated function names in vietnamese</p>
<pre><code>change line dòng
change stroke bút
change end trở—lại
change move di—chuyển
change cubic cong
change close đong
change fill điền—vào
change transform biến—đổi
change text văn—bản
change font kiểu—mâu
</code></pre>
<h1>Thursday</h1>
<p>Evening - mounting of the exhibition in Trung Nguyen Café the team here
prepared easels and wooden boards to display the posters and
illustrations. The exhibition format (wood panels and easels) raises
questions amongst us, <em>of course</em>. How to convey some meaning with a
format that refers to the way some people in the 17th century were
looking at pictures as depiction of the world (paintings!). The pictures
coming from Ginger, Ana, Ricardo, Dave, Andy, Jakub, Rejon, Lafkon and
others.<br>
<img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_0530.jpg"><br>
Not much choice on how to arrange the posters: we have the central space
of the floor, everywhere else are tables and chairs people organizing
the exhibition are surprised while reading the biographies: they don't
know any of the people listed in it and wonder why we are here but not
in the bios nor the exhibition so we decide to make something last
minute next day.</p>
<h1>Friday</h1>
<p>We wanted to do something on the floor with vinyl, but we don't know
where we can produce that so fast. Next plan: making a big poster
covering the tables in the center and print a double-issue of Libre
Graphics Magazine to be able to stack the laminated print outs. In 2
hours or so, we made a cover for this not pirated official double issue
of Libre Graphics Magazine -which looks then as a strange Reader or
Fanzine- and we pulled out all our blog content (texts and images) to
put them on the huge poster, Scribus strangled by a python!<br>
At 20.00, "official" opening starts. Most of the attendees are graphic
design students, some we've met during the workshops, some are from
other schools. Some teachers and graphic designers as well. Some
students showed us their work, some were interested in pursuing the
workshops at home (how to install the software used? installing
Ubuntu?).</p>
<ul>
<li>Marketing/Art</li>
<li>The exhibition San Art</li>
<li>LGM 2012</li>
</ul>
<h1>Week 1 - Saturday</h1>
<p>afternoon: Debrief of the week at the swimming-pool evening: Trying to
meet Merv Espina (connection through the Piet Zwart Institute in
Rotterdam) at San Art, independant artist space. Closing party of <a href="http://www.san-art.org/exhibitions/AAA-MOBILE-LIBRARY/AAA-MOBILE-LIBRARY.html">"Open
Edit: Mobile
Library"</a>.
Principle is to choose a book and to intervene onto it. A book of 1288
pages, history of 20th century art in China, unbound, rebound in 5
volumes according to the major color of the pictures. [! PICTURE !] An
art catalogue where someone pasted pink blocks with different shades or
white lines to mark the main composition of each picture or of even the
catalogue page layout. [!PICTURE!] We also met Zoe Butt, co-director
of the space, and we plan an interview with her next week when we come
back from Can Tho. Merv invited us to go next week to an opening at
<a href="http://galleryquynh.com">[Gallery Quynh]</a> in HCMC.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/blog/wp-content/themes/osp/images/OIF.jpg"> </p>
<p><small>La participation OSP de l'Open Design Week a été rendue possible
grâce au soutien de l'OIF</small></p>
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Next Tuesday our co-worker <a href="http://textzi.net/">Ivan Monroy Lopez</a>
relocates to Mexico City to set up the first Latin American branch of
OSP. Using 10 hours of time difference in our advantage, we now can
serve Free, Libre and Open Source design (almost) around the clock! If
you want to join the …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/ivan_biker.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/ivan_biker-75x100.jpg" title="ivan_biker" width="75"></a>
Next Tuesday our co-worker <a href="http://textzi.net/">Ivan Monroy Lopez</a>
relocates to Mexico City to set up the first Latin American branch of
OSP. Using 10 hours of time difference in our advantage, we now can
serve Free, Libre and Open Source design (almost) around the clock! If
you want to join the Mexican revolution, please write to
mail@ospublish.constantvzw.org and we put you in contact with our local
representative.</p>Deadline extended :-)2011-04-03T17:27:00+02:002011-04-03T17:27:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-03:/news/deadline-extended.html<p>
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Good news: You can [submit your
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Good news: You can [submit your
talk](http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Category:Conference_Talk_2011_Proposal)
for the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal until April 20. It means you
have exactly
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left to tell us what developers and designers gathering at LGM need to
know about.
</p>
<p>See you soon in Montreal!</p>BXL (meanwhile)2011-04-03T15:52:00+02:002011-04-03T15:52:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-03:/live/bxl-meanwhile.html<p>[caption id="attachment_6075" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Ready to discuss unbound books and utilitarian
type"]<img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6075" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7386.jpg" title="IMG_7386">[/caption]</p><p>[caption id="attachment_6075" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Ready to discuss unbound books and utilitarian
type"]<img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-6075" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_7386.jpg" title="IMG_7386">[/caption]</p>Bon Voyage OSP!2011-04-01T09:55:00+02:002011-04-01T09:55:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-04-01:/news/bon-voyage-osp.html<p><a href="http://opendesign.asia"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6053" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/open-design.png" title="open-design"></a><br>
Today 5 OSPs travel to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, to participate in
<a href="http://opendesign.asia"><strong>Open Design Week</strong></a>. Alex, John, Pierre,
Pierre and Stéphanie will be touring through the Mekong Delta to meet up
with local F/LOSS fans through workshops, presentations and an
exhibition. The second week is reserved for …</p><p><a href="http://opendesign.asia"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6053" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/open-design.png" title="open-design"></a><br>
Today 5 OSPs travel to Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, to participate in
<a href="http://opendesign.asia"><strong>Open Design Week</strong></a>. Alex, John, Pierre,
Pierre and Stéphanie will be touring through the Mekong Delta to meet up
with local F/LOSS fans through workshops, presentations and an
exhibition. The second week is reserved for an intense work session with
the aim to produce a collaborative font between Asian and European
participants. This font will be used to produce a publication
on-the-spot. <strong>Open Design Week</strong> is initiated by Mario Behling and
<a href="http://river-valley.tv/media/conferences/lgm2010/0104-Hong-Phuc-Dang/">Hong Phuc
Dang</a>.
Hong Phuc came to Brussels in 2010 for the 5th edition of the Libre
Graphics Meeting, and hopefully she'll be at LGM 2011 too.</p>
<p><em>Bon Voyage OSP!</em></p>PA/PER VIEW: Assembly2011-03-28T11:26:00+02:002011-03-28T11:26:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-28:/live/paper-view-assembly.html<p><strong>Assembly: Friday April 1 (18:00 - 20:00) at PA/PER VIEW art book
fair</strong><br>
WIELS, Avenue van Volxemlaan 354, Brussels (Belgium)</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6046" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/thing.jpg" title="thing"></p>
<p>This Friday, OSP participates in a discussion initiated by Agency.
Agency is the generic name of a Brussels-based agency that was
established in 1992 by Kobe Matthys. Agency …</p><p><strong>Assembly: Friday April 1 (18:00 - 20:00) at PA/PER VIEW art book
fair</strong><br>
WIELS, Avenue van Volxemlaan 354, Brussels (Belgium)</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6046" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/thing.jpg" title="thing"></p>
<p>This Friday, OSP participates in a discussion initiated by Agency.
Agency is the generic name of a Brussels-based agency that was
established in 1992 by Kobe Matthys. Agency constitutes a growing “list
of things” that resist the binary division between culture and nature,
expressions and ideas and consequently between creations and facts,
subjects and objects, humans and non-humans, originality and banality,
individuals and collectives, etc...<br>
<!--more--><br>
Agency calls things forth from it’s list via varying “assemblies” inside
exhibitions, performances, publications, etc... Each assembly explores
in a topological way a different aspect of the performative consequences
of the apparatus of intellectual property for an ecology of art
practices.</p>
<p>For Assembly (PA/PER VIEW), Agency will call things forth, speculating
on the question: How to include book making in art practices? How are
typeface designers, book binders, lay-outers, etc... taken into
consideration by copyright law? Thing 001452 (Orion) and Thing 001535
(Introductory Language Work) will convene an assembly at PA/PER VIEW in
order to bear witness. On April 1, 2011 Agency will invite a diverse
group of concerned guests to “translate” on these things: Thorsten
Baensch (publisher Bartleby), Sari Depreeuw (legal scholar VUB), Manuel
Raeder (graphic designer), OSP (Open Source Publishing: Ivan Monroy
Lopez/Seb Sanfilippo/Femke Snelting/etc..), Ziga Testen (graphic
designer), etc...</p>Only a few days left to propose your LGM-talk2011-03-28T09:56:00+02:002011-03-28T09:56:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-28:/news/only-a-few-days-left-to-propose-your-lgm-talk.html<p>~~* April 1 *~~ <strong>April 20</strong> is the final deadline for submitting your
talk for the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal!</p>
<p>Are you a developer, designer or a mix of both and involved in Free,
Libre and Open Source Software for creative use? Please feel welcome to
propose a talk here:
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk">http …</a></p><p>~~* April 1 *~~ <strong>April 20</strong> is the final deadline for submitting your
talk for the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal!</p>
<p>Are you a developer, designer or a mix of both and involved in Free,
Libre and Open Source Software for creative use? Please feel welcome to
propose a talk here:
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk">http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk</a> ((For
those talks that are accepted, the LGM community <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610">works hard to gather
enough funds</a> so that your flight
can be reimbursed if necessary. Reimbursement happens only after the
conference, depending on the funds available and you will need to pay
for your own lodging)).</p>
<p>We would like to hear about your work, and meet you in Montreal for a
BOF ((Birds of a Feather: people group together based on a shared
interest and carry out discussions without any pre-planned agenda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_%28computing)), a
workshop or other forms of exchange that can make our tools even better.</p>Document Freedom Day2011-03-27T18:20:00+02:002011-03-27T18:20:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-27:/news/document-freedom-day.html<p><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6026" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Dfd_leaflet_front_bw-2011.png" title="Dfd_leaflet_front_bw-2011"></a></p>
<p>Next Wednesday March 30th = Document Freedom Day (DFD), a global day for
document liberation.<br>
Look here for events in your country:
<a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2011/events/">http://documentfreedom.org/2011/events/</a></p><p><a href="http://documentfreedom.org/"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6026" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Dfd_leaflet_front_bw-2011.png" title="Dfd_leaflet_front_bw-2011"></a></p>
<p>Next Wednesday March 30th = Document Freedom Day (DFD), a global day for
document liberation.<br>
Look here for events in your country:
<a href="http://documentfreedom.org/2011/events/">http://documentfreedom.org/2011/events/</a></p>Let's talk about tools2011-03-24T16:50:00+01:002011-03-24T16:50:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-24:/news/lets-talk-about-tools.html<p><a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/libregraphicsmag-70x100.png" title="libregraphicsmag" width="70"></a> In the
excellent new <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com">Libre Graphics Magazine</a>,
don't miss the invitation to submit materials for an exhibition that
will run parallel to the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal.<br>
More details and how to submit at: <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools">http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools</a></p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p>Deadline: 22 April 2011!</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Let's talk about tools for a …</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/libregraphicsmag-70x100.png" title="libregraphicsmag" width="70"></a> In the
excellent new <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com">Libre Graphics Magazine</a>,
don't miss the invitation to submit materials for an exhibition that
will run parallel to the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal.<br>
More details and how to submit at: <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools">http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools</a></p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p>Deadline: 22 April 2011!</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Let's talk about tools for a moment. We, as humans, distinguish
ourselves from other animals by talking about our ability to make and
use tools. We make tools, we use tools, we are tools, all at different
times and in different amounts.</p>
<p>Tools can be physical things used to manipulate equally physical
things. At the same time, they can be digital things, used to shift
bits. We can love them or hate them. The one thing we can't manage is
to escape them. As we define what they do, so too do they define what
we do. In the shape of a paint brush, the kink of a bezier curve, the
change a gaussian filter exerts over an image, they make our work what
it is. We are our tools and our tools are us.</p>
</blockquote>
<!--more-->
<blockquote>
<p>So let's talk about tools, in the best way we know how, graphically.
Libre Graphics Meeting, Libre Graphics magazine and Mardigrafe are
cosponsoring a juried exhibition of f/loss graphics work on the
subject of tools. Break out your own f/loss graphics tools and design
a poster (24”x34”) detailing your perception or ideas about tools.</p>
<p>All submissions will be included in an online gallery, presented in
conjunction with Libre Graphics meeting. In addition, a jury of
designers, thinkers and doers will meet in May. They'll pick 15
posters to be printed by Mardigrafe and displayed during Libre
Graphics Meeting in Montreal. The editors of Libre Graphics magazine
will pick a further eight to be featured in the showcase<br>
section of an upcoming issue. So get thinking about your tools, what
they mean to you and what you mean to them. Then, get designing.</p>
</blockquote>Support LGM 20112011-03-21T17:20:00+01:002011-03-21T17:20:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-21:/news/support-lgm-2011.html<p>Donate to help F/LOSS developers and designers work together at LGM!</p>
<p><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610"><img alt="" src="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/donate/pledgie_banner.png"></a></p>
<p>Use this code to display a banner on your own website:</p>
<p>
<textarea name="snippet" rows="3" cols="55">
[![](http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/donate/pledgie_banner.png)](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610)
</textarea>
</p>
<p>And this is how it was made: <a href="http://stdin.fr/Bazar/Pledgie">http://stdin.fr/Bazar/Pledgie</a></p><p>Donate to help F/LOSS developers and designers work together at LGM!</p>
<p><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610"><img alt="" src="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/donate/pledgie_banner.png"></a></p>
<p>Use this code to display a banner on your own website:</p>
<p>
<textarea name="snippet" rows="3" cols="55">
[![](http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2011/donate/pledgie_banner.png)](http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610)
</textarea>
</p>
<p>And this is how it was made: <a href="http://stdin.fr/Bazar/Pledgie">http://stdin.fr/Bazar/Pledgie</a></p>Libre Graphics Meeting 2011, May 10-13 in Montreal2011-03-19T17:21:00+01:002011-03-19T17:21:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-19:/news/libre-graphics-meeting-2011-may-10-13-in-montreal.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5964" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM.png" title="LGM"></p>
<p>The official announcement for LGM 2011!</p>
<p>→ Submit your talk
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk">here</a><br>
→ Support LGM generously <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610">@
Pledgie</a><br>
→ More info on the LGM website: <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a></p>
<h3>☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆</h3>
<h2>Cutting edge creative tools meet free culture</h2>
<p><strong>May 10-13, Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School</strong></p>
<p>Programmers and artists from around the world are headed to Montreal for
the …</p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5964" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM.png" title="LGM"></p>
<p>The official announcement for LGM 2011!</p>
<p>→ Submit your talk
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk">here</a><br>
→ Support LGM generously <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14610">@
Pledgie</a><br>
→ More info on the LGM website: <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a></p>
<h3>☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆</h3>
<h2>Cutting edge creative tools meet free culture</h2>
<p><strong>May 10-13, Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School</strong></p>
<p>Programmers and artists from around the world are headed to Montreal for
the 6th annual Libre Graphics Meeting in May. The Libre Graphics Meeting
is an annual gathering for the users and developers of free and open
source creative software: artistic tools that are free for anyone to use
and modify. LGM gives software developers, artists, musicians, designers
and other creative professionals the opportunity to collaborate, share
their work and learn from each other.<br>
<!--more--><br>
<strong>A Preview</strong><br>
Every year, Libre Graphics Meeting focuses on individual and group
interaction, emphasizing free media and the software that produces it.
This year’s attendees can expect a similar format that will include
workshops, presentations, demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF)
sessions. Leading up to the conference, special lab sessions bring
developers and artists face-to-face to make improvements in creative
software. Gaps can form when developers and their users don’t meet face
to face; LGM gives artists and educators a voice in the building of
their tools. Both content creators and developers will present, bringing
a diverse community together to advance the technologies and strategies
of high-quality free creative software.</p>
<p><strong>Submit a talk!</strong><br>
LGM’s strength comes from the presenters who talk about their work and
inspire others by sharing their experiences, techniques, and best
practices. Whether you are a developer, an artist, or an enthusiast, you
can be a part of this year’s event by sharing your story and your work.</p>
<p>The LGM community wants to hear your proposal for a session. Submit your
idea any time between now and April 1, 2011 by visiting
http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk</p>Not Gill(ty)2011-03-11T16:38:00+01:002011-03-11T16:38:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-11:/education/not-gillty.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot2.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5951" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot2.png" title="Screenshot"></a></p>
<p>For the second day of the Royal College of Art workshop we paid homage
to Eric Gill's typographic work. What better place than London to
revisit his classic Gill Sans.</p>
<p>We worked from several different sources and ended up creating three
very unique versions of Gill Sans. The first version …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot2.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5951" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot2.png" title="Screenshot"></a></p>
<p>For the second day of the Royal College of Art workshop we paid homage
to Eric Gill's typographic work. What better place than London to
revisit his classic Gill Sans.</p>
<p>We worked from several different sources and ended up creating three
very unique versions of Gill Sans. The first version was generated by
vectorizing a bitmap specimen of the digital version of the monotype
Gill Sans. For the second version we used early sketches of the typeface
made by Gill (see image). Finally we took advantage of the letterpress
workshop at the Royal College and we printed a specimen from the
original lead font.</p>
<p>The three versions of RCA Guilt Sans were made using Gimp, Fonzie and
Fontforge.</p>Read The Fine Manual2011-03-09T19:34:00+01:002011-03-09T19:34:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-03-09:/live/remote-publishing.html<p>Today, 1st day out of 3 of workshop at Royal College of Art in London.</p>
<p>We are doing collective remote publishing by sending commands to Scribus
from an IRC channel. We are on irc.freenode.net, channel #rcaws if you
want to have a glimpse at it, or do blind …</p><p>Today, 1st day out of 3 of workshop at Royal College of Art in London.</p>
<p>We are doing collective remote publishing by sending commands to Scribus
from an IRC channel. We are on irc.freenode.net, channel #rcaws if you
want to have a glimpse at it, or do blind design! From 10am to 5pm,
London time.</p>
<p>Tomorrow, we'll pass as many versions of Gill Sans through Fonzie! </p>
<p>We all worked on the same document to make a poster to announce our
public presentation on Friday at 3pm. </p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/screenshot_09-03-11_18-14-22.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5942" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/screenshot_09-03-11_18-14-22.png" title="screenshot_09-03-11_18-14-22"></a></p>Today at OSP2011-02-25T00:05:00+01:002011-02-25T00:05:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-25:/news/today-at-osp.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1110735.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5884" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1110735.jpg" title="P1110735"></a></p>
<p>Today OSP worked on a <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.super.git;a=summary">brand new super git-repository
lay-out</a>, added
new fonts to <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/">OSP-foundry</a>,
advanced the DIN-project, made a start with the cover for <em>Tot Later</em> (a
novel by Ana Claese) and in between celebrated that our application for
the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/lab/">Libre Graphics Research
Unit</a> has been approved.
Champagne!</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1110735.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5884" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1110735.jpg" title="P1110735"></a></p>
<p>Today OSP worked on a <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.super.git;a=summary">brand new super git-repository
lay-out</a>, added
new fonts to <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/">OSP-foundry</a>,
advanced the DIN-project, made a start with the cover for <em>Tot Later</em> (a
novel by Ana Claese) and in between celebrated that our application for
the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/lab/">Libre Graphics Research
Unit</a> has been approved.
Champagne!</p>It's possible?2011-02-16T12:13:00+01:002011-02-16T12:13:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-16:/tools/its-possible.html<p>The following question was posted by Pascal Lapalme on the Scribus
mailinglist:</p>
<div style="font-family:mono">
"I will animate a conf to explain how to use Scribus, Gimp and Inkscape
in a classroom with studient to make a news paper (look here : Atelier
108 - Des outils libres pour la création d'un journal
<http://colloque.aquops.qc.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/colloque.woa/wo/0.1.29.1.0.7.0.8>).
In my …</http:></div><p>The following question was posted by Pascal Lapalme on the Scribus
mailinglist:</p>
<div style="font-family:mono">
"I will animate a conf to explain how to use Scribus, Gimp and Inkscape
in a classroom with studient to make a news paper (look here : Atelier
108 - Des outils libres pour la création d'un journal
<http://colloque.aquops.qc.ca/cgi-bin/WebObjects/colloque.woa/wo/0.1.29.1.0.7.0.8>).
In my conf, I will ask everyone to use twitter to make comments, ask
questions, etc.
I would like to use Scribus and his hability to script to take RSS file
and make a booklet of all this posts...
It's possible ?
How can I make it or where do I begin my search in the doc ?"
</div>
<p>We are curious to see the result!<br>
Follow the thread here:
<a href="http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2011-February/041959.html">http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2011-February/041959.html</a></p>+ 42011-02-03T21:29:00+01:002011-02-03T21:29:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-03:/live/4-2.html<p>[gallery link="file"]<br>
Last night, we piped 4 Mac into Dual-Boot Mac OSX and Ubuntu.<br>
To follow the steps is now quite a routine which can be combined with
cheap beers and pizza.<br>
1 install <a href="http://refit.sourceforge.net/">rEfit</a>;<br>
2 create a new partition using Disk Utility;<br>
3 reboot on a Ubuntu 10 …</p><p>[gallery link="file"]<br>
Last night, we piped 4 Mac into Dual-Boot Mac OSX and Ubuntu.<br>
To follow the steps is now quite a routine which can be combined with
cheap beers and pizza.<br>
1 install <a href="http://refit.sourceforge.net/">rEfit</a>;<br>
2 create a new partition using Disk Utility;<br>
3 reboot on a Ubuntu 10.10 dvd.<br>
-<br>
→ 3 Wins - 1 failure<br>
Myriam, Sebastien and Pierre M. switched their machine to the other
side.<br>
-<br>
notes - to be able to partition is better - to have a working cd driver
can help (the USB drive didn't work).</p>
<p>At the end of the night, relieved, freed, flabbergasted and more.</p>Looking for students2011-02-01T13:37:00+01:002011-02-01T13:37:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-02-01:/education/looking-for-students.html<p>Mirko Tobias Schaeffer (from the excellent text <a href="http://www.mtschaefer.net/entry/bastard-culture-2/"><em>Bastard
Culture</em></a> and <a href="http://river-valley.tv/designing-a-better-tomorrow/">a
great talk</a> at LGM
2010) wrote us about the one year master programme he is teaching with
a.o. Marianne van den Boomen and Ann-Sophie Lehmann at Utrecht
University:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We combine academic analysis and theory with hands on experience …</p></blockquote><p>Mirko Tobias Schaeffer (from the excellent text <a href="http://www.mtschaefer.net/entry/bastard-culture-2/"><em>Bastard
Culture</em></a> and <a href="http://river-valley.tv/designing-a-better-tomorrow/">a
great talk</a> at LGM
2010) wrote us about the one year master programme he is teaching with
a.o. Marianne van den Boomen and Ann-Sophie Lehmann at Utrecht
University:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We combine academic analysis and theory with hands on experience in
new media. We're looking for enthusiastic students who would like to
join our programme in the Netherlands.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Have a look at the Call for students:
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/NMDC_Call-f-students_eng.pdf">NMDC_Call-f-students_eng</a></p>
<p>Registering deadline for next term is March 1 2011.</p>Dingbat Dictée2011-01-27T23:53:00+01:002011-01-27T23:53:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-01-27:/type/dingbat-dictee.html<p><strong>Recipe for teaching Unicode poetry to <a href="http://www.notbored.org/avertissement.html">students of all
ages</a></strong>: ((Previously tested
in <a href="http://zigzaganimal.be/?p=337">Brussels</a> and
<a href="http://www.geuzen.org/gallery/The_Tailored_Alphabet/the_tailored_alphabet_workshop/page/3/">Kiel</a>.))</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5631" src="{filename}/images/uploads/dictee.jpg" title="dictee"></p>
<ol>
<li>Print out listings of the following Unicode blocks: <strong>Dingbats</strong>
(2700–27BF), <strong>Miscellaneous Symbols</strong> (2600–26FF) and eventually
<strong>Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows</strong> (2B00–2BFF). It is important
you include the descriptions in the language of …</li></ol><p><strong>Recipe for teaching Unicode poetry to <a href="http://www.notbored.org/avertissement.html">students of all
ages</a></strong>: ((Previously tested
in <a href="http://zigzaganimal.be/?p=337">Brussels</a> and
<a href="http://www.geuzen.org/gallery/The_Tailored_Alphabet/the_tailored_alphabet_workshop/page/3/">Kiel</a>.))</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5631" src="{filename}/images/uploads/dictee.jpg" title="dictee"></p>
<ol>
<li>Print out listings of the following Unicode blocks: <strong>Dingbats</strong>
(2700–27BF), <strong>Miscellaneous Symbols</strong> (2600–26FF) and eventually
<strong>Miscellaneous Symbols and Arrows</strong> (2B00–2BFF). It is important
you include the descriptions in the language of your choice. Below
are German, English and French sample files.</li>
<li>Contextualize the Dictée by showing
<a href="http://www.mythic-beasts.com/~mark/random/unicode-poster/poster-complete-version-5.0-one-sheet-00-A4-300dpi.png">this</a>
picture for example.</li>
<li>One person selects a number of descriptions he or she finds
interesting</li>
<li>Read out the number, followed by it's description</li>
<li>Allow participants a set time to come up with a proposal that fits
the description. Depending on the medium of choice, rhythm can vary:
pencil up to 30 seconds; cutting or digital drawing: up to
10 minutes.</li>
<li>Compare results of participants to each other and to official
Unicode blocks</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/unicode_german.pdf">unicode_german</a><br>
<a href="http://www.zigzaganimal.be/U2600_FR.pdf">U2600_FR.pdf</a><br>
<a href="http://www.zigzaganimal.be/U2700_FR.pdf">U2700_FR.pdf</a></p>400!2011-01-16T10:18:00+01:002011-01-16T10:18:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-01-16:/news/400.html<p>[caption id="attachment_5608" align="alignnone" width="317" caption="
Eyeballs Kustom Neon Animated GIF by Roger
Norton"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/eyes.gif"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-5608" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/eyes.gif" title="eyes"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Four-hundred posts to OSP-blog since January 20, 2006 when we wrote:
<em><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/is-it-possible">OK, It is time
now.</a></em> Browse the
archives: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/archives">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/archives</a></p><p>[caption id="attachment_5608" align="alignnone" width="317" caption="
Eyeballs Kustom Neon Animated GIF by Roger
Norton"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/eyes.gif"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-5608" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/eyes.gif" title="eyes"></a>[/caption]</p>
<p>Four-hundred posts to OSP-blog since January 20, 2006 when we wrote:
<em><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/is-it-possible">OK, It is time
now.</a></em> Browse the
archives: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/archives">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/archives</a></p>About Travels of Baron Munchausen2011-01-03T21:30:00+01:002011-01-03T21:30:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-01-03:/news/about-travels-of-baron-munchausen.html<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pierre_h.png"></p>
<p>[This is the about section of the the <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.git;a=commit;h=a326b40c206d9cf3848fd4c28cd361f36efe5e6f">Travels of Baron Munchausen
publication</a>
:-)]</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3154">How should I disengage myself? I was not much pleased with my awkward
situation -- with a wolf face to face; our ogling was not of the most
pleasant kind. If I withdrew my arm, then the animal …</a></p></blockquote><p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pierre_h.png"></p>
<p>[This is the about section of the the <a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.git;a=commit;h=a326b40c206d9cf3848fd4c28cd361f36efe5e6f">Travels of Baron Munchausen
publication</a>
:-)]</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3154">How should I disengage myself? I was not much pleased with my awkward
situation -- with a wolf face to face; our ogling was not of the most
pleasant kind. If I withdrew my arm, then the animal would fly the
more furiously upon me; that I saw in his flaming eyes. In short, I
laid hold of his tail, turned him inside out like a glove, and flung
him to the ground, where I left
him.</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>On January 3 2011, the first working day of the year, OSP gathered
around Scribus. We wanted to explore framerendering, Scribus
bootstrapping and to play around with the incredible adventures of
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_M%C3%BCnchhausen">Baron von
Munchausen</a>.</p>
<p>The idea was to produce some kind of experimental result, as a follow-up
to our earlier attempts of <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/how-to-turn-a-frog-into-a-prince">turning a frog into a
prince</a>.</p>
<p>One day we asked Scribus team-members what their favourite Scribus
feature was. After some hesitation they pointed us to the magical
<a href="http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=renderframes">framerender</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1110032.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5566" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1110032.jpg" title="P1110032"></a><br>
<!--more--></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Framerenderer</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The Framerender is an image frame with a wrapper, a GUI, and a
configuration scheme. External programs are invoked from inside of
Scribus, and their output is placed into the frame!</p>
<p>By default, the current Scribus is configured to host the following
friends: LaTeX, <a href="http://lilypond.org/">Lilypond</a>, gnuplot, dot/GraphViz
and POV-Ray</p>
<p>Today we are working with <a href="http://lilypond.org/">Lilypond</a>. We are also
creating custom tools that generate PostScript/PDF via Imagemagick and
other command line tools.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lilypond</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilypond">LilyPond is a music engraving program, devoted to producing the
highest-quality sheet music possible. It brings the aesthetics of
traditionally engraved music to computer
printouts.</a></p>
<p>We wrote a small wrapper that produces two facing pages. On page 1: text
is manually selected. On page 2: every letter from the selection is
replaced with musical notes; and a musical score with accompanying
lyrics is generated by Lilypond.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Text</p>
</blockquote>
<p>We typeset the first 5 chapters of the stories that Rudolph Erich Raspe
wrote in the voice of the legendary <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_M%C3%BCnchhausen">Baron
Munchausen</a>. In a
rudimentary English, he relates about incredible adventures that happen
to him in rapid succession. We started reading them because the passage
where Munchausen brings himself out of the swamp by pulling his own
boots is often brought up when talking about the Bootstrapping of a
computer. Some say he was pulling himself out by his own hair. We have
yet to find this exact reference in the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3154">Project
Gutenberg</a> text. Maybe someone can
help? :-)</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Typeface</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The shapes of <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/univers-else/">Univers
Else</a> are
obtained from scanning printed textpages that were optically composed by
cheap phototypesetting machines 30 years ago. With it's round angles,
floating baselines and erratic kerning it has the kind of delirious
brashness necessary for typesetting stories of half horses, wolves
turned inside out like a glove, fifty ducks destroyed by one shot and
fighting lions with crocodiles.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3154">I recollected that Turkey-beans grow very quick, and run up to an
astonishing height. I planted one immediately; it grew, and actually
fastened itself to one of the moon's horns. I had no more to do now
but to climb up by it into the moon, where I safely arrived, and had a
troublesome piece of business before I could find my silver hatchet,
in a place where everything has the brightness of
silver...</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>Pull all files from our repository at:
<a href="http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.git">http://git.constantvzw.org/?p=osp.git</a></p>First 2011 work, Circular Facts website2011-01-03T14:19:00+01:002011-01-03T14:19:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2011-01-03:/news/first-2011-work-circular-facts-website.html<p>During our current Scribus renderframe experiments day, Ivan shows us <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/index.php?/projects/circular-facts/">a
customised Wordpress
template</a>
with a gorgeous index page in Unicode for the <a href="http://www.circularfacts.eu">Circular Facts
website.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cf1.png"><img alt="Circular Facts website
index" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5522" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cf1.png" title="Circular Facts website index"></a></p><p>During our current Scribus renderframe experiments day, Ivan shows us <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/index.php?/projects/circular-facts/">a
customised Wordpress
template</a>
with a gorgeous index page in Unicode for the <a href="http://www.circularfacts.eu">Circular Facts
website.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cf1.png"><img alt="Circular Facts website
index" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5522" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cf1.png" title="Circular Facts website index"></a></p>The first months of 20112010-12-23T18:57:00+01:002010-12-23T18:57:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-12-23:/news/the-first-months-of-2011.html<p>What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here:</p>
<p><strong>January</strong><br>
Start with a bang: Monday January 3 all OSPs gather for a Scribus
experiment. You'll hear more about once we get there! Antoine from
l'École Estienne, Paris joins us for an internship of three months. We
have …</p><p>What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here:</p>
<p><strong>January</strong><br>
Start with a bang: Monday January 3 all OSPs gather for a Scribus
experiment. You'll hear more about once we get there! Antoine from
l'École Estienne, Paris joins us for an internship of three months. We
have new plans for some kind of OSP-school (writing more project
proposals, handing in applications ...). Ludi and Pierre H continue to
infuse their students with F/LOSS energy at <a href="http://www.erg.be/">ERG</a>
and <a href="http://www.lacambre.be/">La Cambre</a>. Reprint of <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/valentine-scripting">Openbaar
Schrijver</a>
available by the end of the month.<br>
<!--more--><br>
<strong>February</strong><br>
With the help of a stagiair from the <a href="http://www.fundp.ac.be/droit/crid">Centre de recherche informatique
et droit</a> (CRID) we are continuing
work on a license for 3D objects. Special Print Party celebrating the
fact that text and images from Trotski, Emma Goldman, Selma Lagerlof,
Fitzgerald and Paul Klee have fallen into the public domain in Belgium.
Some of us travel to London to work with students from the
<a href="http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=160469&GroupID=159384&CategoryID=36692&More=1">Communication Art & Design department at the Royal College of
Art</a>
who want to develop a publication using Scribus.</p>
<p><strong>March</strong><br>
Launching <em>Tot Later</em>, a novel by <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anaclasis">Ana
Claese</a>, designed by OSP.
Hopefully <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/author/harrisson">Harrisson</a>
will be home from the hospital (he's undergoing chemotherapy and a bone
marrow transplantation).</p>
<p><strong>April</strong><br>
OSP is travelling to Vietnam :-) We are still looking for part of the
funding so not sure how many of us will be able to make the trip.
Presentations, workshops and work with Vietnamese designers on a font
and a publication planned. All of this the outcome of meeting <a href="http://river-valley.tv/how-to-get-contributors-to-your-freelibreopen-source-project-from-vietnam-and-asia/">Hong Phuc
Dang</a>
at LGM 2010.</p>
<p><strong>May</strong><br>
May is LGM month! Two OSP-representatives travel to Montréal from May
10-13 to participate in the 6th Libre Graphics Meeting, something we
look much forward to. This year's edition will be extra exciting with so
many new developments going on (Libre Graphics Magazine, Scribus
Reloaded, many new participants joining).</p>Use Cases and Affordances2010-12-15T11:01:00+01:002010-12-15T11:01:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-12-15:/news/use-cases-and-affordances.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5475" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/20101212_033.jpg" title="20101212_033"></p>
<p>Enjoying the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine <em>First Flight</em> too?
In the mean time, the editorial team started working on a brand new one!
The theme for the upcoming magazine is <em>Use Cases and Affordances</em>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases,
define for us, to …</p></blockquote><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5475" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/20101212_033.jpg" title="20101212_033"></p>
<p>Enjoying the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine <em>First Flight</em> too?
In the mean time, the editorial team started working on a brand new one!
The theme for the upcoming magazine is <em>Use Cases and Affordances</em>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases,
define for us, to a certain extent, what we may and may not do. Those
decisions are put in place by the people who design the tools.
Together, as users, developers and all areas between the two extremes,
we boil in a constantly reconfiguring sea of use possibilities,
material and mental affordances.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Interesting :-)</p>
<p>Read the full call here:
<a href="http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/12/libre-graphics-magazine-12-call-for-submissions.html">http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/12/libre-graphics-magazine-12-call-for-submissions.html</a>
and don't forget to <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/buy.html">order a printed
issue</a>!</p>Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine2010-11-23T21:48:00+01:002010-11-23T21:48:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-23:/tools/scenario-for-vowels-consonants-and-a-text-engine.html<p>Imagine ((This <em>Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine</em>
describes the sophisticated new text-engine that the Scribus team is
preparing us at this very moment)) a
<a href="{filename}/images/uploads/whathappenswhenyoubakeacake.html">paragraph</a>
in Scribus. The first word consists of three vowels and a consonant. The
Scribus <em>text-engine</em> receives this <em>cluster</em> of characters as a first …</p><p>Imagine ((This <em>Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine</em>
describes the sophisticated new text-engine that the Scribus team is
preparing us at this very moment)) a
<a href="{filename}/images/uploads/whathappenswhenyoubakeacake.html">paragraph</a>
in Scribus. The first word consists of three vowels and a consonant. The
Scribus <em>text-engine</em> receives this <em>cluster</em> of characters as a first
input. Now the <em>shaper</em> will start to work; it has to decide what
features need to be applied to the cluster. Do characters need to be
re-ordered? Do ligatures need to be applied? If the answer is 'yes', the
shaper will ask the font-software if there is a ligature available that
can be used. Each cluster is treated in this way and subsequently added
to the list of <em>glyphs</em>. This list of glyphs output by the shaper is
than entered into the second part of the text-engine, the
<em>block-compositor</em>. The block-compositor is in contact with the
<em>line-lay-outer</em>. It knows that a certain line starts at a given point
and it also knows about the width of the frame containing it. The
block-compositor will ask the line-lay-outer to come up with a certain
amount of propositions per line. Per proposition, a penalty is given,
based on the quality of the break (does it require hyphenation?) and the
amount of stretching needed to reach the width of the frame. Now the
block-composer can produce an oriented graph
((http://mathworld.wolfram.com/OrientedGraph.html)) on the basis of
which it can decide what is the least penalized route ((Compare the
concept of badness in TeX:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TeX/definition/badness))). But a second
parameter is also taken into account: what combination of
line-propositions will result in the most uniform distribution of
line-width per paragraph? After the block-compositor has found the
optimal solution, the text engine outputs the paragraph to the canvas.</p>Scribus Re-loaded2010-11-22T00:19:00+01:002010-11-22T00:19:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-22:/news/scribus-re-loaded.html<p>Fresh news from Paris:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Scribus-OIF.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5319" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Scribus-OIF.png" title="Scribus-OIF"></a></p>
<p>Since a few months the <a href="http://www.francophonie.org/">Organisation Internationale de la
Francophonie</a> supports the Scribus team.
The goal is to make the program ready for new developers and users from
Asia and Africa and this is *very* good news for the rest of us too!</p>
<p>The project goes …</p><p>Fresh news from Paris:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Scribus-OIF.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5319" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Scribus-OIF.png" title="Scribus-OIF"></a></p>
<p>Since a few months the <a href="http://www.francophonie.org/">Organisation Internationale de la
Francophonie</a> supports the Scribus team.
The goal is to make the program ready for new developers and users from
Asia and Africa and this is *very* good news for the rest of us too!</p>
<p>The project goes under the code name "Scribus-OIF" and involves intense
work on two related but very different axis: a complete rewrite of the
text-engine, and a new take on the properties panel.<br>
<!--more--><br>
It all started with the need to support complex text-layout. In Arabic
script for example, different glyphs are used for the same character,
depending on their position in the word. Ligatures are another example
of a complex text-layout. The team also decided that it was important to
disentangle the text-engine code itself and to make it easier for
newcomers to contribute to the project. We'll talk about all this more
soon but it does not stop there. Work is under-way to provide
sophisticated paragraph based lay-outs and last but not least, the undo
function for text will finally be added :-D</p>
<p>The second part of the work concerns the properties palette. You could
see this central part of the interface as a representation of the
Scribus datamodel, a good place to make developers and designers start
thinking together. To invite contributions by people with different
skills, the code for the properties palette will be detached from the
main code-base and modularized to a high degree.</p>
<p>While impatiently waiting for all these developments to take an effect,
expect a series of posts about Scribus Re-loaded in the upcoming months.
We will detail the text-engine, discuss Scribus Persona, look closer at
the properties palette and QT-designer, test-drive the frame-rendering
feature and more.</p>
<p>Go Scribus Go!</p>We are not here to be correct2010-11-16T17:15:00+01:002010-11-16T17:15:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-16:/fonts/we-are-not-here-to-be-correct.html<p>Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente from <a href="http://hacklaviva.net/">Manufactura
Independente</a> have made PropCourier Sans, the
display and identity font for <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/">Libre Graphics
Magazine</a> ... a super derivative of our
own
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/notcouriersans/">NotCourierSans</a>
("We are not here to be polite")!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png" title="propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265"></a><br>
Download hopefully available *soon* :-)</p>
<p>Via:
<a href="http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html">http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html</a></p><p>Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente from <a href="http://hacklaviva.net/">Manufactura
Independente</a> have made PropCourier Sans, the
display and identity font for <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/">Libre Graphics
Magazine</a> ... a super derivative of our
own
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/foundry/notcouriersans/">NotCourierSans</a>
("We are not here to be polite")!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265.png" title="propcouriersansspecimen-thumb-500x707-265"></a><br>
Download hopefully available *soon* :-)</p>
<p>Via:
<a href="http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html">http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html</a></p>Infiltrating culture in a positive way2010-11-06T14:33:00+01:002010-11-06T14:33:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-06:/news/infiltrating-culture-in-a-positive-way.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/article.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5254" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/article.png" title="article"></a></p>
<p><em>The opening talk therefore sounds like a manifest, asking to valorize
Free Software, in order to "infiltrate culture in a positive way".
Pierre Marchand, member of the OSP collective, presenting a
collaborative ornamental font, supports this proposal totally: "In our
domain, the freedom of software is the single tool to …</em></p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/article.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5254" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/article.png" title="article"></a></p>
<p><em>The opening talk therefore sounds like a manifest, asking to valorize
Free Software, in order to "infiltrate culture in a positive way".
Pierre Marchand, member of the OSP collective, presenting a
collaborative ornamental font, supports this proposal totally: "In our
domain, the freedom of software is the single tool to completely share
culture. It is necessary, there would be nothing without it"</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/LOISIRS/Festivals/Make-Art-prend-son-envol-et-libere-son-public">http://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/LOISIRS/Festivals/Make-Art-prend-son-envol-et-libere-son-public</a></p>la bouche de la reine2010-11-05T16:26:00+01:002010-11-05T16:26:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-05:/news/la-bouche-de-la-reine.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5237" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/bouche.jpg" title="bouche"></p>
<p><small>Courtesy: Inkscape parallel-stroke hatching</small></p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-5237" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/bouche.jpg" title="bouche"></p>
<p><small>Courtesy: Inkscape parallel-stroke hatching</small></p>Fund Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1!2010-11-01T11:12:00+01:002010-11-01T11:12:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-11-01:/news/fund-libre-graphics-magazine-1-1.html<p>We're very excited about the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine
coming up soon. A place for discussion on the use and development of
Libre Graphics seems more relevant than ever. With ginger coons, Ana
Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente on the editorial team, support from the
<a href="http://www.mardigrafe.com/">Mardigrafe printing house</a> and …</p><p>We're very excited about the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine
coming up soon. A place for discussion on the use and development of
Libre Graphics seems more relevant than ever. With ginger coons, Ana
Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente on the editorial team, support from the
<a href="http://www.mardigrafe.com/">Mardigrafe printing house</a> and <a href="http://www.studioxx.org">Studio
XX</a> in Montreal, we look forward to a spicy mix
of well-known authors and new discoveries, served up in a carefully
designed and illustrated publication.</p>
<p>Visit <a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com">http://libregraphicsmag.com</a> for more information and contribute
to the print run of Libre Graphics Magazine issue 1.1:
<a href="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/13812">http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/13812</a>!</p>Open Sauces2010-10-25T14:27:00+02:002010-10-25T14:27:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-10-25:/news/open-sauces.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_6858.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5116" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_6858.jpg" title="IMG_6858"></a></p>
<p>Just out: The <a href="http://f0.am/">fOam</a> Open Sauces book + insert!</p>
<p>The book contains essays, recipes and images documenting <a href="http://fo.am/open_sauces">Open
Sauces</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"a sequence of experimental courses, matched with drinks, improvised
music and esteemed guests. While savouring the foods, the guests will
be engaged in table conversations, sharing experiences, recipes and
ingredients needed to …</p></blockquote><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_6858.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-5116" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMG_6858.jpg" title="IMG_6858"></a></p>
<p>Just out: The <a href="http://f0.am/">fOam</a> Open Sauces book + insert!</p>
<p>The book contains essays, recipes and images documenting <a href="http://fo.am/open_sauces">Open
Sauces</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"a sequence of experimental courses, matched with drinks, improvised
music and esteemed guests. While savouring the foods, the guests will
be engaged in table conversations, sharing experiences, recipes and
ingredients needed to demystify cultural, environmental, technical and
ethical aspects of contemporary food systems"</p>
</blockquote>
<p>The scenario for <a href="/news/semiotics-of-the-kitchen-radio">Semiotics of the Kitchen
Radio</a>, an OSP broadcast that fOam
hosted in their space, is published in a separate booklet.</p>
<ul>
<li>Download the Open Sauces book:
<a href="http://opensauces.cc/open.sauces.pdf">http://opensauces.cc/open.sauces.pdf</a></li>
<li>Text on Stoemp: <a href="http://snelting.domainepublic.net/texts/stoemp.odt">http://snelting.domainepublic.net/texts/stoemp.odt</a></li>
<li>Scenario for Semiotics of the Kitchen Radio:
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/semioticsofkitchenradio_semk_short_0608.odt">semioticsofkitchenradio_semk_short_0608</a></li>
</ul>OSP-summit2010-10-10T17:31:00+02:002010-10-10T17:31:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-10-10:/news/osp-summit.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=46"><img alt="Heure-en-famenne" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/heure-en-famenne/large/1571-p1070837.jpg"></a></p>
<p>Last Thursday and Friday OSP gathered in
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.2729&lon=5.3826&zoom=14&layers=M">Heure-en-Famenne</a>
to discuss future plans and current projects. After almost 5 years of
work we wanted to take a bit of time to look back and forward. We made
several resolutions and decisions. Some will be already visible in ~~the
coming weeks~~ now …</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=46"><img alt="Heure-en-famenne" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/heure-en-famenne/large/1571-p1070837.jpg"></a></p>
<p>Last Thursday and Friday OSP gathered in
<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.2729&lon=5.3826&zoom=14&layers=M">Heure-en-Famenne</a>
to discuss future plans and current projects. After almost 5 years of
work we wanted to take a bit of time to look back and forward. We made
several resolutions and decisions. Some will be already visible in ~~the
coming weeks~~ now, others only in the years to come.</p>This Fall2010-10-03T13:11:00+02:002010-10-03T13:11:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-10-03:/news/this-fall.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4960" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot1.png" title="Screenshot"></p>
<p>This fall @ OSP:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/Public/NewsList.php?ID=3509#m3621"><strong>Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs Tournée
française</strong></a>
(Paris, Valence, Nancy, Besançon et Amiens 30/09/2010 → 30/01/2011)</li>
<li>Teaching <strong><a href="http://www.erg.be/erg/spip.php?article1072&lang=en">Images numériques – Open source – Chaîne
(typo)-graphique
ouverte</a></strong> at
ERG</li>
<li>Submitted proposal to the <a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/">The Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency (EACEA)</a> to fund a
<a href="/lab/wiki"><strong>Libre Graphics Research …</strong></a></li></ul><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4960" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot1.png" title="Screenshot"></p>
<p>This fall @ OSP:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/Public/NewsList.php?ID=3509#m3621"><strong>Prix Fernand Baudin Prijs Tournée
française</strong></a>
(Paris, Valence, Nancy, Besançon et Amiens 30/09/2010 → 30/01/2011)</li>
<li>Teaching <strong><a href="http://www.erg.be/erg/spip.php?article1072&lang=en">Images numériques – Open source – Chaîne
(typo)-graphique
ouverte</a></strong> at
ERG</li>
<li>Submitted proposal to the <a href="http://eacea.ec.europa.eu/">The Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency (EACEA)</a> to fund a
<a href="/lab/wiki"><strong>Libre Graphics Research Unit</strong></a></li>
<li>Thinking about The Praise of Folly and the <a href="http://www.herdenkingsmunt.nl/">Prize of
Money</a></li>
<li>06/11 → 12/11: OSP in Tel Aviv to participate in <a href="http://www.shenkar.ac.il/english/events/events.aspx?eventsId=117"><strong>Open Sources
versus Military
Culture?</strong></a></li>
<li>Getting <a href="/nancy">Nancy</a> ready for the next edition of MakeArt
festival <a href="http://makeart.goto10.org"><strong>In-between design: rediscovering collaboration in
digital art</strong></a> (Poitiers 04/11 → 07/11)</li>
</ul>
<p>Yes, winter will probably be hot too.</p>One nouveau flyer voor Constant vzw/asbl2010-09-17T03:06:00+02:002010-09-17T03:06:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-09-17:/news/one-nouveau-flyer-voor-constant-vzwasbl.html<p>New at <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org">OSP Works</a>:<br>
flyer for <a href="http://constantvzw.org">Constant</a> which OSP is a subdivision
of.<br>
4 different flyers.<br>
Play on languages, loops…<br>
Made with Scribus.<br>
more
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/index.php?/projects/constant-flyer/">here</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4506_small.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4996" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4506_small.jpg" title="DSC_4506_small"></a><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4514_small.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4996" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4514_small.jpg" title="DSC_4514_small"></a></p><p>New at <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org">OSP Works</a>:<br>
flyer for <a href="http://constantvzw.org">Constant</a> which OSP is a subdivision
of.<br>
4 different flyers.<br>
Play on languages, loops…<br>
Made with Scribus.<br>
more
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/index.php?/projects/constant-flyer/">here</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4506_small.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4996" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4506_small.jpg" title="DSC_4506_small"></a><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4514_small.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4996" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/DSC_4514_small.jpg" title="DSC_4514_small"></a></p>Call for proposals: Libre Graphics Magazine 1.12010-09-11T14:14:00+02:002010-09-11T14:14:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-09-11:/news/call-for-proposals-libre-graphics-magazine-1-1.html<blockquote>
<p>Libre Graphics Magazine is seeking submissions for its first numbered
issue, which loosely follows the theme First Encounters/Taking Flight.
Submissions can range from the written, to the visual, to the
interactive. If it can be flattened and printed, it could appear in
our print edition. If it moves or …</p></blockquote><blockquote>
<p>Libre Graphics Magazine is seeking submissions for its first numbered
issue, which loosely follows the theme First Encounters/Taking Flight.
Submissions can range from the written, to the visual, to the
interactive. If it can be flattened and printed, it could appear in
our print edition. If it moves or requires user input to be seen
properly, it might just be a good fit for our web edition. Proposals
for articles or works (or even already completed works), may be
submitted until October 3, 11:59 Eastern time. Proposals for articles
should be no more than 100 words, although the articles themselves may
be up to 1000 words. Proposals and work may be sent to
submissions@libregraphicsmag.com</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Read the full call at:
<a href="http://libregraphicsmag.com/">http://libregraphicsmag.com</a></p>LGM 2011: date + place confirmed2010-09-09T10:17:00+02:002010-09-09T10:17:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-09-09:/news/lgm-2011-date-place-confirmed.html<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-73.924,45.361,-73.421,45.739&layer=mapnik" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe>
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<p>The sixth edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting will take place from
<strong>10-13 May 2011</strong> in <strong>Montreal, Canada</strong>. The local team builds on
experience of having organised two earlier meetings in the same city,
plus this years' LGM will make a special effort to connect to the …</p><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-73.924,45.361,-73.421,45.739&layer=mapnik" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe>
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<p>The sixth edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting will take place from
<strong>10-13 May 2011</strong> in <strong>Montreal, Canada</strong>. The local team builds on
experience of having organised two earlier meetings in the same city,
plus this years' LGM will make a special effort to connect to the lively
art- and design scene present <em>sur place</em>. So, save the date and we hope
to meet again in Canada's Cultural Capital next spring!</p>The Library2010-08-03T17:48:00+02:002010-08-03T17:48:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-08-03:/news/the-library.html<p>On our (virtual) bookshelves:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=LG_lab&collection=-1&shelf=list&sort=title"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4879" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/books1.png" title="books"></a></p>
<p>Download the list as .csv file:
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OSP-library_030810.csv">OSP-library_030810</a></p>
<p>The OSP-library is a modest pile of books that we think is relevant to
our practice. Some <a href="http://www.librarything.nl/catalog.php?view=LG_lab&shelf=list&sort=title&sort=title">we have
read</a>
and others <a href="http://www.librarything.nl/catalog.php?view=LG_lab&shelf=list&sort=title&sort=title">we
should</a>.
We'll keep adding titles; suggestions welcome!</p>
<p>After testing several ways to catalogue the collection, we …</p><p>On our (virtual) bookshelves:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?view=LG_lab&collection=-1&shelf=list&sort=title"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4879" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/books1.png" title="books"></a></p>
<p>Download the list as .csv file:
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OSP-library_030810.csv">OSP-library_030810</a></p>
<p>The OSP-library is a modest pile of books that we think is relevant to
our practice. Some <a href="http://www.librarything.nl/catalog.php?view=LG_lab&shelf=list&sort=title&sort=title">we have
read</a>
and others <a href="http://www.librarything.nl/catalog.php?view=LG_lab&shelf=list&sort=title&sort=title">we
should</a>.
We'll keep adding titles; suggestions welcome!</p>
<p>After testing several ways to catalogue the collection, we settled with
LibraryThing for the time being. It's not ideal ... though it is a good
project (they allow users to export collections as .csv file (book data,
no tags), use multiple sources for bibliographic data and have a
sensible privacy policy) the software nor data is under a free license.</p>
<p>We tried <a href="http://alexandria.rubyforge.org/">Alexandria</a> and than
exported our booklist as a static html page but the amount of times the
software crashed drove us insane. Also it is a bit disappointing that
Alexandria almost completely relies on data from amazon.com. A rewrite
is on it's way so we are looking forward to that. We most of all want to
use <a href="http://www.openlibrary.org">http://www.openlibrary.org</a>, a project initiated by
<a href="http://www.archive.org">http://www.archive.org</a>. We like their concept "<em>a wiki page for each
book</em>" and the site contains a fair amount of information already. For
posts on individual books, we started to use <a href="http://johnmiedema.ca/portfolio/openbook-wordpress-plugin/">a
plugin</a> that
can pull data from <a href="http://www.openlibrary.org">http://www.openlibrary.org</a>. But we'll need a bit of
patience before jumping ship: the team is currently working on adding
the indispensable feature that allows us to make lists. And the ability
to import data from file would be nice too!</p>In the mail2010-08-03T11:02:00+02:002010-08-03T11:02:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-08-03:/news/in-the-mail.html<p>In the mail today:<br>
[portfolio_slideshow]<br>
From Taipei (Taiwan): <em><a href="http://freesouls.cc/">Freesouls. Captured and
released</a></em>. Joi Ito, 2008<br>
From Weimar (Germany): <em><a href="http://www.uni-weimar.de/fkk">Lorem Ipsum: Zentralorgan der Freien Klassen
Kommunikation</a></em>. 2010</p>
<p><small>Thank you Christopher + Martin :-)</small></p><p>In the mail today:<br>
[portfolio_slideshow]<br>
From Taipei (Taiwan): <em><a href="http://freesouls.cc/">Freesouls. Captured and
released</a></em>. Joi Ito, 2008<br>
From Weimar (Germany): <em><a href="http://www.uni-weimar.de/fkk">Lorem Ipsum: Zentralorgan der Freien Klassen
Kommunikation</a></em>. 2010</p>
<p><small>Thank you Christopher + Martin :-)</small></p>Almost there!2010-06-23T09:33:00+02:002010-06-23T09:33:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-06-23:/news/almost-there.html<p><a href="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="Click here to lend your support to: Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 and
make a donation at www.pledgie.com
!" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner.png"></a></p>
<p>We're busy closing the books on LGM 2010 and soon deciding where to go
for LGM 2011 (Brasil? Montreal? Vietnam? Follow the discussion at:
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a>) so we almost did
not notice that it's only a <em>very</em> little stretch to our initial goal of
raising …</p><p><a href="http://www.pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="Click here to lend your support to: Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 and
make a donation at www.pledgie.com
!" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner.png"></a></p>
<p>We're busy closing the books on LGM 2010 and soon deciding where to go
for LGM 2011 (Brasil? Montreal? Vietnam? Follow the discussion at:
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a>) so we almost did
not notice that it's only a <em>very</em> little stretch to our initial goal of
raising 10.000\$ on Pledgie :-)</p>Libre Graphics Magazine #02010-06-18T15:10:00+02:002010-06-18T15:10:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-06-18:/news/libre-graphics-magazine-0.html<p><a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lgm01-70x100.png" title="lgm0" width="70"></a>During
LGM 2010, <a href="http://planapress.org/">Ana</a>,
<a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/">ginger</a> and <a href="http://tinkerhouse.net/">Ricardo</a>
(+ a.l.e and Femke) edited, designed and published <em>Libre Graphics
Magazine #0</em>.</p>
<p>You can download it here:<br>
<a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf</a></p>
<div class="clear">
</div><p><a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf"><img alt="" class="float" height="100" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lgm01-70x100.png" title="lgm0" width="70"></a>During
LGM 2010, <a href="http://planapress.org/">Ana</a>,
<a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/">ginger</a> and <a href="http://tinkerhouse.net/">Ricardo</a>
(+ a.l.e and Femke) edited, designed and published <em>Libre Graphics
Magazine #0</em>.</p>
<p>You can download it here:<br>
<a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/download/lgmag_00.pdf</a></p>
<div class="clear">
</div>Au revoir LGM20102010-06-05T15:34:00+02:002010-06-05T15:34:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-06-05:/news/au-revoir-lgm-2010.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/group.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4557" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/group.jpg" title="group"></a></p>
<ul>
<li>Constant pictures:
<a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=32177">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=32177</a></li>
<li>Overview of pictures + posts:
<a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/index.php?p=en/review">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/index.php?p=en/review</a></li>
<li>Video registrations: <a href="http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010">http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010</a></li>
</ul><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/group.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4557" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/group.jpg" title="group"></a></p>
<ul>
<li>Constant pictures:
<a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=32177">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=32177</a></li>
<li>Overview of pictures + posts:
<a href="http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/index.php?p=en/review">http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/index.php?p=en/review</a></li>
<li>Video registrations: <a href="http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010">http://river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm-2010</a></li>
</ul>on the track of the Bauhaus2010-06-05T09:32:00+02:002010-06-05T09:32:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-06-05:/live/on-the-track-of-the-bauhaus.html<p>Yesterday, OSP was on a road trip to Weimar to give a talk at the
<a href="http://typogravieh-lebt.de">Typogravieh Lebt</a> symposium organized by
the Bauhaus-university of Weimar.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4554" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1040574.jpg" title="P1040574"></p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4554" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1040660.jpg" title="P1040660"></p>
<p>We are now at the venue, about to start... It's going to be great!</p><p>Yesterday, OSP was on a road trip to Weimar to give a talk at the
<a href="http://typogravieh-lebt.de">Typogravieh Lebt</a> symposium organized by
the Bauhaus-university of Weimar.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4554" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1040574.jpg" title="P1040574"></p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-4554" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1040660.jpg" title="P1040660"></p>
<p>We are now at the venue, about to start... It's going to be great!</p>ABCLGM Typographic Workshop2010-05-27T12:41:00+02:002010-05-27T12:41:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-05-27:/news/abclgm-typographic-workshop.html<p><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4549" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/abc_workshop.jpg" title="abc_workshop"></p>
<p>The people attending this workshop will learn about one way to dissect
the shapes of the latin alphabet, and use this theorical model to make a
typeface together in a fast paced design game. The game will involve
drawing letters on paper, making use of a real life version control …</p><p><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4549" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/abc_workshop.jpg" title="abc_workshop"></p>
<p>The people attending this workshop will learn about one way to dissect
the shapes of the latin alphabet, and use this theorical model to make a
typeface together in a fast paced design game. The game will involve
drawing letters on paper, making use of a real life version control
system, and uploading the results to the <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font
Library</a>. No previous experience of
typeface design required.<br>
By and with <a href="http://understandinglimited.com/">Dave Crossland</a> (type
designer), <a href="%20http://www.ludi.be/">Ludivine Loiseau</a> (graphic
designer), <a href="oep-h.fr">Pierre Marchand</a> (font developer) and <a href="http://typeandgouda.wordpress.com/">Sebastien
Sanfilippo</a> (type designer)<br>
In the context of <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/">LGM - Libre Graphique Meetings
2010.</a></p>LGM Day zero — LG-school2010-05-26T23:12:00+02:002010-05-26T23:12:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-05-26:/live/lgm-day-zero-%e2%80%94-lg-school.html<p>[caption id="attachment_4527" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Beehive at Constant the night before"]<img alt="Beehive at Constant
the night
before" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0595.jpg" title="IMAG0595">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4528" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="*Something* in preparation"]<img alt="*Something* in
preparation" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0596.jpg" title="IMAG0596">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4530" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Last junk food before LGM refined catering!"]<img alt="Last day of
junk
food!" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0599.jpg" title="IMAG0599">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4531" align="alignnone" width="400 …</p><p>[caption id="attachment_4527" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Beehive at Constant the night before"]<img alt="Beehive at Constant
the night
before" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0595.jpg" title="IMAG0595">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4528" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="*Something* in preparation"]<img alt="*Something* in
preparation" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0596.jpg" title="IMAG0596">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4530" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Last junk food before LGM refined catering!"]<img alt="Last day of
junk
food!" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0599.jpg" title="IMAG0599">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4531" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="OSP gang"]<img alt="OSP
gang" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0600.jpg" title="IMAG0600">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4534" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Ginger presenting her workshop — no computer, no slides, just
sharp sentences!"]<img alt="Ginger presenting his workshop — no computer, no
slides, just sharp
sentences!" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0603.jpg" title="IMAG0603">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4536" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="HD swing : Windows > Linux for the workshop > Windows
(1/2h for 10 discs)"]<img alt="HD swing : Windows &gt; Linux for the workshop
&gt; Windows (1/2h for 10
discs)" class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0605.jpg" title="IMAG0605">[/caption]</p>
<p>[caption id="attachment_4535" align="alignnone" width="400"
caption="Lunch contacts exchange..."]<img alt="Lunch contacts
exchange..." class="size-medium wp-image-4527" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/IMAG0604.jpg" title="IMAG0604">[/caption]</p>Button Party2010-05-25T08:55:00+02:002010-05-25T08:55:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-05-25:/news/button-party.html<p><a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4521" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/button.jpg" title="button"></a><br>
Preparing badges for LGM-participants</p>
<p>More pictures: <a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913</a></p><p><a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4521" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/button.jpg" title="button"></a><br>
Preparing badges for LGM-participants</p>
<p>More pictures: <a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31913</a></p>Warming up to LGM 20102010-05-23T15:10:00+02:002010-05-23T15:10:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-05-23:/news/warming-up-to-lgm-2010.html<p><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4513" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/20100523_009.jpg" title="20100523_009"><br>
<img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4513" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/20100523_005.jpg" title="20100523_005"></p>
<p>This sunny Sunday afternoon, Ricardo, ginger, ale, Ana and Femke gather
in the Constant office backyard to get ready for LGM arriving in town.</p><p><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4513" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/20100523_009.jpg" title="20100523_009"><br>
<img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4513" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/20100523_005.jpg" title="20100523_005"></p>
<p>This sunny Sunday afternoon, Ricardo, ginger, ale, Ana and Femke gather
in the Constant office backyard to get ready for LGM arriving in town.</p>LG-school @ De Pianofabriek2010-05-18T21:41:00+02:002010-05-18T21:41:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-05-18:/education/lg-school-de-pianofabriek.html<p><strong>Wednesday 26 May *** A day with: ginger coons, LUST, Akkana Peck &
OSP</strong><br>
<em>Introduction + discussion: De Pianofabriek</em><br>
<em>Workshops: Various locations</em></p>
<p>A day before the international <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> starts, art/design
students and their teachers are welcome to join LG-school for an intense
day. LG-school looks at what Free Software could …</p><p><strong>Wednesday 26 May *** A day with: ginger coons, LUST, Akkana Peck &
OSP</strong><br>
<em>Introduction + discussion: De Pianofabriek</em><br>
<em>Workshops: Various locations</em></p>
<p>A day before the international <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> starts, art/design
students and their teachers are welcome to join LG-school for an intense
day. LG-school looks at what Free Software could mean for teaching,
learning, experimenting and making creative work.</p>
<p>The day starts with an introduction on why Free Software could be
interesting for designers and artists, followed by hands-on parallel
sessions. The day ends with a plenary discussion moderated by Pierre
Huyghebaert and Femke Snelting. We'll share experiences with each other
and with Free Software developers already arriving in Brussels for the
Libre Graphics Meeting.</p>
<p>At LG-school we will speak mainly English and some French and Dutch; the
discussion has simultaneous translation in French.</p>
<p>If you haven't inscribed yet, please e-mail to femke @ constantvzw.org</p>
<p>There will be several computers available with Linux installed -- bring
your own laptop if you can. If you plan to participate in the LUST
workshop, try to arrive with Processing installed [2].<br>
<!--more--></p>
<p>SCHEDULE</p>
<p>11:00 Introduction<br>
11:30 Presentations<br>
12:30 -- lunch<br>
13:30 Parallel workshops<br>
16:30 -- break<br>
17:00 Discussion<br>
18:30 -- end</p>
<p>WORKSHOPS</p>
<p><strong>Akkana Peck</strong> [US]<br>
Akkana Peck is a Linux software developer and writer who has worked on
projects that include web browsers, HTML editors, system software, email
programs, scientific visualization and, of course, GIMP. She is also the
author of Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional<br>
<a href="http://shallowsky.com">http://shallowsky.com</a><br>
<a href="http://gimpbook.com">http://gimpbook.com</a></p>
<p>Workshop: GIMP and GIMP Scripting: an introduction to the GNU Image
Manipulation Program, what it can do, and how to extend it by writing
custom scripts and plug-ins.<br>
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Writing_GIMP_scripts_and_plug-ins">http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Writing_GIMP_scripts_and_plug-ins</a><br>
Location: Atelier du Web (Rue du Fort 37)<br>
***</p>
<p><strong>ginger coons</strong> [CA]<br>
ginger coons is a designer, artist, pseudo-academic, occasional writer
and all-round renaissance woman. Her work specializes in topics of
intellectual property, civil liberties and truth in production. This
applies just as much to her writing as to her visual practice. As a
research mercenary, she has examined the implications of e-readers on
the environment, dynamic typography and geosocial networking, among
others. She blogs regularly on the above topics and with illustrations
at <a href="http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog">adaptstudio.ca/blog</a>.</p>
<p>Workshop: Digital illustration, lazy tactics and the public domain.<br>
Location: De Pianofabriek<br>
***</p>
<p><strong>LUST (Daniel Powers)</strong> [NL]<br>
LUST is a studio for graphic and interactive design based in The Hague
(Den Haag), Netherlands. Their design philosophy revolves around
Process-based and Generative-based Design. Interested in exploring new
pathways for design at the precarious edge where new media and
information technologies, architecture and urban planning and graphic
design overlap. Topics include: graphic design, typography, abstract
cartography, mapping, architecture, urban media installations, archiving
data-visualizations, random mistake-ism, fonts, type design, new media
interactive webdesign, internet art, big bang chaos.<br>
<a href="http://lust.nl">http://lust.nl</a></p>
<p>Workshop: an introduction to free software/building your own tools, The
workshop which will focus primarily on processing.<br>
Location: De Pianofabriek<br>
***</p>
<p><strong>OSP (ALexandre Leray, Ludivine Loiseau, Stephanie Vilayphiou e.a.)</strong>
[BE]<br>
OSP is a graphic design agency using only Free and Open Source Software.
Closely affiliated with the Brussels based digital culture foundation
Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing
graphic design using an expanding range of tools. OSP is serious about
testing the possibilities and limitations of F/LOSS in a professional
design environment, without expecting to find (or offer!) the same
experience as the ones they are used to. Actually, they are interested
in experimenting with everything that shows up in the cracks.<br>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org</a></p>
<p>Workshop: please computer | make me design. A workshop on fun poster
generation, using simple command-lines (especially GNU textutils
tools).<br>
Location: Interface3 (Rue du Méridien 30)</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>De Pianofabriek<br>
Fortstraat 35, Brussels (at 10 mins. from Brussels South Station)</p>
<hr>
<p>[1] <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://processing.org/download">http://processing.org/download</a></p>SILEX-LEX: exchanging layers2010-04-30T08:32:00+02:002010-04-30T08:32:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-04-30:/education/silex-lex-exchanging-layers.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=43">Here</a>
are snapshots of
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/live/silex-lex">SILEX-LEX</a> round 1.
Artists, designers and illustrators experimented with Inkscape, a
Rhizograph and each other's layers. Round 2 follows next week in
preparation of the vernissage on May 7.<br>
[gallery link="file" orderby="rand"]</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=43">Here</a>
are snapshots of
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/live/silex-lex">SILEX-LEX</a> round 1.
Artists, designers and illustrators experimented with Inkscape, a
Rhizograph and each other's layers. Round 2 follows next week in
preparation of the vernissage on May 7.<br>
[gallery link="file" orderby="rand"]</p>Expanded Service Airway2010-04-29T18:45:00+02:002010-04-29T18:45:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-04-29:/news/expanded-service-airway.html<p>Was it volcanic dust? Or something else? Important documents that were
mailed weeks ago from Brussels to Moscow unfortunately never arrived.
Today we sent them again by courier to make sure
<a href="http://prokoudine.info/">this</a> indispensable LGM-participant will be
able to get a visa for Belgium in time.<br>
[gallery link="file" orderby="rand …</p><p>Was it volcanic dust? Or something else? Important documents that were
mailed weeks ago from Brussels to Moscow unfortunately never arrived.
Today we sent them again by courier to make sure
<a href="http://prokoudine.info/">this</a> indispensable LGM-participant will be
able to get a visa for Belgium in time.<br>
[gallery link="file" orderby="rand"]<br>
All we can do now is wait and hope they arrive from our door to his in
less then 4 days...</p>Final call to submit talks for LGM 20102010-04-21T15:06:00+02:002010-04-21T15:06:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-04-21:/news/final-call-to-submit-talks-for-lgm-2010.html<p><strong>Deadline: Saturday May 1</strong><br>
Please submit your talk for LGM 2010 at:
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk">http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk</a></p>
<p>Here is the latest press-release:<br>
<code>San Francisco and Brussels, Thursday 15 April 2010 – The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual working conference for the free software graphics application community. Developers from …</code></p><p><strong>Deadline: Saturday May 1</strong><br>
Please submit your talk for LGM 2010 at:
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk">http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2010/Submit_Talk</a></p>
<p>Here is the latest press-release:<br>
<code>San Francisco and Brussels, Thursday 15 April 2010 – The Libre Graphics Meeting is an annual working conference for the free software graphics application community. Developers from the full spectrum of graphics applications — image editors, photography, 3-D and 2-D animation, vector art, graphic design, typography – collaborate with each other on interoperability, push the state of the art in application functionality and user experience, and get important face-to-face interaction with users.</code><br>
<!--more--><br>
<code>LGM 2010 will take place between May 27 and 30th at De Pianofabriek in Brussels, Belgium. Developers from GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, the Open Font Library, and other open source projects are scheduled to appear. Technical talks will showcase new work in digital asset management, natural-media simulation, and internationalized font design. The program will also emphasize real-world usage of open source graphics software in professional publishing houses, multimedia production, and both the secondary education and art school classroom. Developers, users, or community members who would like to give a talk at LGM 2010 are encouraged to submit a proposal by following the instructions at http://libregraphicsmeeting.org. The deadline for submissions is May 1.</code></p>please computer | make me design2010-04-18T19:13:00+02:002010-04-18T19:13:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-04-18:/education/please-computer-make-me-design.html<p><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4444" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OpenCourse.png" title="OpenCourse"><br>
[<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OpenCourse.pdf">Full
programme</a>]</p>
<p>OSP @ <strong>Journée Open-Course/Open-Source</strong></p>
<p>N’avez-vous jamais rêvé que votre ordinateur fasse tout ce que vous
voulez?<br>
C’est possible!<br>
Osez prendre les commandes de votre ordinateur en participant à cet Open
Course/Open Source axé sur le design par le texte.<br>
De la monoculture a …</p><p><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4444" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OpenCourse.png" title="OpenCourse"><br>
[<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/OpenCourse.pdf">Full
programme</a>]</p>
<p>OSP @ <strong>Journée Open-Course/Open-Source</strong></p>
<p>N’avez-vous jamais rêvé que votre ordinateur fasse tout ce que vous
voulez?<br>
C’est possible!<br>
Osez prendre les commandes de votre ordinateur en participant à cet Open
Course/Open Source axé sur le design par le texte.<br>
De la monoculture à la diversité logicielle. Un panorama des logiciels
libres pour la création (typo)graphique avec le groupe Open Source
Publishing</p>Gender Art Net - presentation + workshop2010-04-17T13:21:00+02:002010-04-17T13:21:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-04-17:/news/genderartnet-presentation-workshop.html<p><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4434" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/icons.png" title="icons"></p>
<p>OSP defied volcanic dust and gathers in Berlin to present and discuss
the first stage of the <a href="http://www.genderartnet.eu/">GenderArtNet</a>
project at project space uqbar.</p>
<p>With: Bettina Knaup, Maria Ptqk, Bojana Pejic, Anne Quirynen, Femke
Snelting, Ludivine Loiseau, Anne-Laure Buisson, Nicolas Malevé and
others.</p>
<p>
<center>
[![Nicolas talks about
maps](http://gallery.constantvzw.org …</center></p><p><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4434" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/icons.png" title="icons"></p>
<p>OSP defied volcanic dust and gathers in Berlin to present and discuss
the first stage of the <a href="http://www.genderartnet.eu/">GenderArtNet</a>
project at project space uqbar.</p>
<p>With: Bettina Knaup, Maria Ptqk, Bojana Pejic, Anne Quirynen, Femke
Snelting, Ludivine Loiseau, Anne-Laure Buisson, Nicolas Malevé and
others.</p>
<p>
<center>
[![Nicolas talks about
maps](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=31488&g2_serialNumber=2)](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31486)
[![Ludi presents the design
process](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=31491&g2_serialNumber=2)](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=31489)
</center>
</p>SILEX-LEX2010-04-08T15:18:00+02:002010-04-08T15:18:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-04-08:/live/silex-lex.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logo_silex_lex.png"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4382" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logo_silex_lex.png" title="logo_silex_lex"></a></p>
<p><strong>Exhibition: 8 May → June 4 2010<br>
Opening: May 7 18:00-21:00<br>
De Pianofabriek, Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussels<br>
</strong></p>
<p>What if a team of talented artists, illustrators, graphic designers and
graffiti writers starts working with Free, Libre and Open Source
softwares for the first time? What if their trials and errors …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logo_silex_lex.png"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4382" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logo_silex_lex.png" title="logo_silex_lex"></a></p>
<p><strong>Exhibition: 8 May → June 4 2010<br>
Opening: May 7 18:00-21:00<br>
De Pianofabriek, Fortstraat 35, 1060 Brussels<br>
</strong></p>
<p>What if a team of talented artists, illustrators, graphic designers and
graffiti writers starts working with Free, Libre and Open Source
softwares for the first time? What if their trials and errors are
printed on the Plus-tôt-Te-Laat Rhizograph and then handed over to
students of the Ecole de Recherche Graphique (ERG) for a make-over?</p>
<p>Results of this serial experiment on show until June 4 at De
Pianofabriek in the context of the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics Meeting
2010</a>.</p>
<p>With: Nurse, Laurent Baudoux, Manuel Falcata, Gwenola Carrere, Lodovico
Corsini, Jerome Degive, Julien Meert, Martin Meert, Benoit Plateus,
Jonathan Poliart, Emilie Seron.<br>
Assistants: Harrisson, Pierre Marchand, Ludivine Loiseau</p>
<p><small>An initiative of OSP (Open Source Publishing) in collaboration
with <a href="http://www.pttl.be/">Plus-tôt Te Laat</a> and support of De Vlaamse
Gemeenschap, De Vlaamse GemeenschapsComissie and
<a href="http://www.multiseatcomputer.be/">http://www.multiseatcomputer.be</a>.</small></p>Font Secrets Revealed2010-03-31T18:08:00+02:002010-03-31T18:08:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-31:/news/font-secrets-revealed.html<p>
<center>
[![]({filename}/images/uploads/secrets.png "secrets"){: .alignright .size-full .wp-image-4368 }]({filename}/images/uploads/secrets.png)
You're welcome for a series of talks by [Dave Crossland</a<br>
**Thursday, April 1 at 10:00, 13:00 and 17:00**
Address: Ecole de Recherche Graphique (ERG), Rue du Page 87, 1050
Bruxelles
](http://understandinglimited.com …</center></p><p>
<center>
[![]({filename}/images/uploads/secrets.png "secrets"){: .alignright .size-full .wp-image-4368 }]({filename}/images/uploads/secrets.png)
You're welcome for a series of talks by [Dave Crossland</a<br>
**Thursday, April 1 at 10:00, 13:00 and 17:00**
Address: Ecole de Recherche Graphique (ERG), Rue du Page 87, 1050
Bruxelles
](http://understandinglimited.com/)[2010-04-01\_dave\_crossland\_poster\_2]({filename}/images/uploads/2010-04-01_dave_crossland_poster_2.pdf)
</center>
</p>Open Clip Art Library2010-03-09T02:39:00+01:002010-03-09T02:39:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-09:/news/open-clip-art-library.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot-1.png"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4279" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot-1.png" title="Screenshot-1"></a><br>
A brand new version of the <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art
Library</a> just came out!</p>
<p>26175 (and growing) scalable vector graphics, all available under a
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/">public domain
license</a>: they may be
freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon,
or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or
non-commercial, and in …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot-1.png"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4279" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/Screenshot-1.png" title="Screenshot-1"></a><br>
A brand new version of the <a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">Open Clip Art
Library</a> just came out!</p>
<p>26175 (and growing) scalable vector graphics, all available under a
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/">public domain
license</a>: they may be
freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon,
or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or
non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods that have not yet
been invented or conceived.<br>
<a href="http://www.openclipart.org/">http://www.openclipart.org</a></p>Launching OSP-works2010-03-08T00:00:00+01:002010-03-08T00:00:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-08:/news/launching-osp-works.html<p><a href="/works"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4176" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/frog-e1267540929456.png" title="frog"></a><br>
5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available
in chronological order:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/<strong>works</strong></a></p><p><a href="/works"><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4176" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/frog-e1267540929456.png" title="frog"></a><br>
5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available
in chronological order:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/<strong>works</strong></a></p>Thank You for Voting!2010-03-05T13:36:00+01:002010-03-05T13:36:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-05:/news/thank-you-for-voting.html<p>We asked your opinion: <a href="/drip-poll">Should the logo we proposed for the Libre
Graphics Meeting drip or not?</a> 50 readers voted, and <strong>yes</strong>
was selected in total 51 times and <strong>no</strong> 34 times (more than one answer
possible). Apart from that, strong opinions were voiced on- and offline.
Interestingly, these often …</p><p>We asked your opinion: <a href="/drip-poll">Should the logo we proposed for the Libre
Graphics Meeting drip or not?</a> 50 readers voted, and <strong>yes</strong>
was selected in total 51 times and <strong>no</strong> 34 times (more than one answer
possible). Apart from that, strong opinions were voiced on- and offline.
Interestingly, these often were <em>against</em> the drip. So, we'll probably
need to keep things as they are -- we'll circulate flyers and stickers
with melted squares, and the <strong>M</strong> for <strong>Meeting</strong> flag on official
channels. For T-shirts, we'll prepare you a surprise :-)</p>
<p>Keep donating to LGM 2010 by the way:
<a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926</a><br>
<img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3994" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/drip-cut.gif" title="drip-cut"></p>Biscoitos da Sorte2010-03-03T00:20:00+01:002010-03-03T00:20:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-03:/news/biscoitos-da-sorte.html<p><a href="http://hacklaviva.net/2010/02/um-ano-depois-continuamos-a-sorrir"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4204" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/RIMG_824911-e1267568673379.jpg" title="RIMG_82491"></a></p>
<p>Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a <a href="http://hacklaviva.net/2010/02/um-ano-depois-continuamos-a-sorrir/">Print
Party</a>
to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies ... how brave! (<a href="http://hacklaviva.net/2010/02/biscoitos-da-sorte-deixa-que-o-terminal-te-ponha-a-cozinhar/">Recipe for cookies
+
messages</a>)</p><p><a href="http://hacklaviva.net/2010/02/um-ano-depois-continuamos-a-sorrir"><img alt="" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-4204" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/RIMG_824911-e1267568673379.jpg" title="RIMG_82491"></a></p>
<p>Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a <a href="http://hacklaviva.net/2010/02/um-ano-depois-continuamos-a-sorrir/">Print
Party</a>
to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies ... how brave! (<a href="http://hacklaviva.net/2010/02/biscoitos-da-sorte-deixa-que-o-terminal-te-ponha-a-cozinhar/">Recipe for cookies
+
messages</a>)</p>Governmental support for LGM2010-03-02T13:39:00+01:002010-03-02T13:39:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-03-02:/news/governmental-support-for-lgm.html<p>Remember that we entered <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/keep-your-fingers-crossed">a subsidy
dossier</a>
in October 2009?</p>
<p>The Design and Architecture committee of the Flemish ministry for
culture has decided to grant our application and support LGM 2010.</p>
<p>Besides the fact that any financial support is more than welcome in hard
times like these, it is above …</p><p>Remember that we entered <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/keep-your-fingers-crossed">a subsidy
dossier</a>
in October 2009?</p>
<p>The Design and Architecture committee of the Flemish ministry for
culture has decided to grant our application and support LGM 2010.</p>
<p>Besides the fact that any financial support is more than welcome in hard
times like these, it is above all an encouraging expression of support
for Libre Graphics as a whole, and the importance of Free, Libre and
Open Source tools for cultural production in particular.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.kunstenenerfgoed.be"><br>
<img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-4158" height="58" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/leeuwsteunVO-G+G-e1267529728332.png" title="leeuwsteunVO-G+G" width="200"><br>
</a></p>mybadge.png2010-02-27T19:00:00+01:002010-02-27T19:00:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-27:/tools/mybadge-png.html<p><a href="http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4124" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/mybadge2.png" title="mybadge"></a> <a href="http://stdin.fr/">Alexandre
Leray</a> has written a nice tutorial on how to create
your own pledgie-badge: <a href="http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie">http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie</a></p>
<p>Thank you <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/blog">ginger coons</a> for your tasty
habanero pepper and don't forget to <strong>donate to
<a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926</a></strong>!</p><p><a href="http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-4124" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/mybadge2.png" title="mybadge"></a> <a href="http://stdin.fr/">Alexandre
Leray</a> has written a nice tutorial on how to create
your own pledgie-badge: <a href="http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie">http://rw.stdin.fr/CookBook/Pledgie</a></p>
<p>Thank you <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/blog">ginger coons</a> for your tasty
habanero pepper and don't forget to <strong>donate to
<a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926</a></strong>!</p>A beautiful compliment2010-02-27T11:00:00+01:002010-02-27T11:00:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-27:/live/a-beautiful-compliment.html<p>[<img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=30957&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=30969&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=31023&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=31044&g2_serialNumber=2">](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=30910)</p>
<p>"<em>Livre de texte dense, a priori sans soucis de graphisme, et je
découvre que c'est tout l'inverse.</em>" (("<em>Book of dense text, a priori
without concern about graphic design, and I discover that it's quite the
opposite</em>" Ariane Bosshard in: Prix Fernand Baudin …</p><p>[<img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=30957&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=30969&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=31023&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="" class="alignnone" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=31044&g2_serialNumber=2">](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=30910)</p>
<p>"<em>Livre de texte dense, a priori sans soucis de graphisme, et je
découvre que c'est tout l'inverse.</em>" (("<em>Book of dense text, a priori
without concern about graphic design, and I discover that it's quite the
opposite</em>" Ariane Bosshard in: Prix Fernand Baudin: les plus beaux
livres à Bruxelles et en Wallonie 2009))</p>
<p>More pictures: <a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=30910">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=30910</a></p>Banners to match2010-02-24T18:03:00+01:002010-02-24T18:03:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-24:/news/banners-to-match.html<p><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner.png"></a><br>
<a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner_red.png"></a><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner_navy.png"></a></p>
<p>Anything else we can do to make you donate a few dollars to LGM2010 :-D?</p>
<form>
<textarea cols="55" rows="3" name="snippet">
<a style='border-style:none'
href='http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926'><img
src='http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie\_banner.png'></a>
</textarea>
</form>
<form>
<textarea cols="55" rows="3" name="snippet">
<a style='border-style:none'
href='http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926'><img
src='http://stdin …</textarea></form><p><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner.png"></a><br>
<a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner_red.png"></a><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner_navy.png"></a></p>
<p>Anything else we can do to make you donate a few dollars to LGM2010 :-D?</p>
<form>
<textarea cols="55" rows="3" name="snippet">
<a style='border-style:none'
href='http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926'><img
src='http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie\_banner.png'></a>
</textarea>
</form>
<form>
<textarea cols="55" rows="3" name="snippet">
<a style='border-style:none'
href='http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926'><img
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</textarea>
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<textarea cols="55" rows="3" name="snippet">
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</form>Support LGM2010!2010-02-22T08:00:00+01:002010-02-22T08:00:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-22:/news/support-lgm2010.html<p><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner.png"></a></p>
<p>At the yearly <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a>, developers and users of
our favorite tools get together to work on better software. For some of
them, a trip to Brussels is easy to fund, others cannot afford the
journey without our help. Let's pull our resources together and <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">raise
10.000 \$</a> (7350 …</p><p><a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926"><img alt="" src="http://stdin.fr/lgm/pledgie/pledgie_banner.png"></a></p>
<p>At the yearly <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a>, developers and users of
our favorite tools get together to work on better software. For some of
them, a trip to Brussels is easy to fund, others cannot afford the
journey without our help. Let's pull our resources together and <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">raise
10.000 \$</a> (7350 €) so that they can
meet face-to-face, exchange and collaborate on the kinds of tools we
like to use.<br>
<!--more--><br>
Pledgie campaign page: <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926</a><br>
Press release: <a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Press_Release_2">http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Press_Release_2</a></p>
<p><strong>How can you help LGM2010?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Donate to the <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926">Pledgie campaign</a>
(small contributions welcome too!)</li>
<li>Spread this message on your (micro)blog (tag: !lgm), social network,
mailinglist</li>
<li>Copy + paste the code below and add a dynamic banner to your site:</li>
</ul>
<form>
<textarea cols="55" rows="3" name="snippet">
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href='http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926'><img
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</textarea>
</form>To drip or not to drip2010-02-21T21:34:00+01:002010-02-21T21:34:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-21:/news/to-drip-or-not-to-drip.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/drip-poll"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3994" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/drip-cut.gif" title="drip-cut"></a><br>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/drip-poll"><strong>Vote Now!</strong></a></p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/drip-poll"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3994" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/drip-cut.gif" title="drip-cut"></a><br>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/drip-poll"><strong>Vote Now!</strong></a></p>Exhibition Prix Fernand Baudin2010-02-08T09:57:00+01:002010-02-08T09:57:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-08:/live/exhibition-prix-fernand-baudin-prijs.html<h3>26 February – 10 March 2010</h3>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3910" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/baudin_arrow1.png" title="baudin_arrow"><br>
Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the
Fernand Baudin Prize 2009, the prize of the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/osp-wins-fernand-baudin-prize">Most Beautiful
Book</a>s
in Brussels and Wallonia.</p>
<p>BIP<br>
Rue Royale, 2-4<br>
1000 Brussels</p>
<p>Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s + release of the
catalogue: <strong>25th …</strong></p><h3>26 February – 10 March 2010</h3>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3910" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/baudin_arrow1.png" title="baudin_arrow"><br>
Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the
Fernand Baudin Prize 2009, the prize of the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/osp-wins-fernand-baudin-prize">Most Beautiful
Book</a>s
in Brussels and Wallonia.</p>
<p>BIP<br>
Rue Royale, 2-4<br>
1000 Brussels</p>
<p>Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s + release of the
catalogue: <strong>25th of February 2010 at 6 pm</strong></p>
<!--more-->
<p>For it’s second edition 2009-2010, the Prize was extended to the Walloon
Region thanks to the support of Wallonia-Brussels International (WBI)
and the Walloon Agency for Export and Foreign Investments (AWEX).</p>
<p>The international jury convened at the Erg to choose the most beautiful
books that were designed, published or printed in Brussels and Wallonia
in 2009.</p>
<p>The jury consisted of the following six members:<br>
Roger WILLEMS, graphic artist, publisher, chairman of the Jury (NL)<br>
Willem OOREBEEK, artist, teacher (NL)<br>
Jean-Marie COURANT, graphic artist, curator, teacher (F)<br>
David POULLARD, typographer, teacher (F)<br>
Jan WOUTER HELSPEEL, graphic artist, teacher (B)<br>
Drita KOTAJI, book historian, teacher (B)</p>
<p>The 83 received books, presented by category (general literature
(fiction), general literature (non-fiction), artists’ books, art books
and catalogues, architecture and urban planning books, books for young
people and comic books) were placed at the disposal of the jury.</p>
<p>20 books were nominated and the Prize was awarded to 10 books, that were
given the title “Winner of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009”. The three
parties of the award winning book; the graphic designer, the publisher
and the printer, will receive an honorary diploma.</p>Cutting Edge2010-02-08T00:54:00+01:002010-02-08T00:54:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-02-08:/news/cutting-edge.html<h3><a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics Meeting 2010</a>!</h3>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cuttingeddge.png" title="cuttingeddge"></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_yellow02.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_yellow02-52x75.png" title="LGM_yellow02"></a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_blue02.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_blue02-52x75.png" title="LGM_blue02"></a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_rose02.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_rose02-52x75.png" title="LGM_rose02"></a></p>
<p>Download flyers:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/cuttingedge.zip">cuttingedge.zip</a></p><h3><a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">Libre Graphics Meeting 2010</a>!</h3>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cuttingeddge.png" title="cuttingeddge"></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_yellow02.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_yellow02-52x75.png" title="LGM_yellow02"></a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_blue02.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_blue02-52x75.png" title="LGM_blue02"></a><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_rose02.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3889" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/LGM_rose02-52x75.png" title="LGM_rose02"></a></p>
<p>Download flyers:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/cuttingedge.zip">cuttingedge.zip</a></p>Valentine scripting2010-01-29T13:09:00+01:002010-01-29T13:09:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-01-29:/works/valentine-scripting.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/openbaar_poster.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3799" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/openbaar_poster.jpg" title="openbaar_poster"></a><br>
<small>Poster and flyer designed and produced in OpenOffice</small></p>
<p>This week and next, colleague and friend <a href="http://www.adashboard.org/">An
Mertens</a> (a.k.a. Ana Foor) works out of the
Elsene local library <a href="http://www.elsene.bibliotheek.be/">Sans Souci</a>.
She'll be listening to your account of meeting a loved one for the first
time, those habits that keep …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/openbaar_poster.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3799" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/openbaar_poster.jpg" title="openbaar_poster"></a><br>
<small>Poster and flyer designed and produced in OpenOffice</small></p>
<p>This week and next, colleague and friend <a href="http://www.adashboard.org/">An
Mertens</a> (a.k.a. Ana Foor) works out of the
Elsene local library <a href="http://www.elsene.bibliotheek.be/">Sans Souci</a>.
She'll be listening to your account of meeting a loved one for the first
time, those habits that keep your relationship alive or which imaginary
place you would like to visit with your best friend. Just like an
oldfashioned <em>Ecrivain Public</em>, Ana Foor will transform these
conversations into unique Valentine letters and -stories published on
the fly. In the waiting room, a selection of (Dutch language) romantic
literature is available, plus a choice of styles and formats presented
in a catalog developed/designed by OSP's Femke, Ludivine, Ivan, Nicolas
and Pierre M.<br>
<!--more--><br>
For practical and conceptual reasons, we wanted to produce the
customised stories and letters with the help of the well-known word
processing tool OpenOffice, and were curious to see what could happen if
we'd use that same tool for designing and printing the catalog, poster
and invitation too. Most of all we couldn't resist to play with
<a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy">odfpy</a>, a Python
library that can generate .odt documents from scratch. It got us into
various strange and exotic problems, just the way we like it :-)</p>
<p><strong>Templates</strong></p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3799" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/form.png" title="form"><br>
<small><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/openbaar-schrijver_formular02.pdf">This
form</a>
lists all possible styles presented in the catalog</small></p>
<p>We designed a set of 6 basic lay-outs mixed with 9 different decorative
'spices' and this for three different types of content (story, poem or
letter). On top of that, there are three types of media to choose from
(web, A4 sheet and booklet). To help identify each of the styles, we
came up with a flexible system of re-combinatorial template names that
also somehow explains how the project works:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sexy Maan</li>
<li>Lavendel Panter</li>
<li>Lungo Ijs</li>
<li>Espresso Stormen</li>
<li>Chocolade Valleien</li>
<li>Koraal Verlangen</li>
<li>Kristallen Maan</li>
<li>Roze Panter</li>
<li>Champagne Ijs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>odfpy</strong><br>
"<em>Unlike other more convenient APIs, this one is essentially an
abstraction layer just above the XML format. The main focus has been to
prevent the programmer from creating invalid documents.</em>"</p>
<p>Nicolas had pointed us to the
<a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy">odfpy</a> library a
while ago, and this lovely catalog seemed the ultimate opportunity to
experiment with it.
<a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy">odfpy</a> adds a
Python-scripting interface to OpenOffice; with the help of this library
you can dynamically generate files in the Open Document Format (.odt,
.ods). <a href="http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy">odfpy</a> uses
OpenOffice in the background, but without its graphical user interface.</p>
<p><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3799" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/odt.png" title="odt"><br>
<small>To see what elements an .odt-file consists of, 'extract' it like
a .zip or .tar file</small></p>
<p><code><office:body><office:text><text:sequence-decls><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Illustration"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Table"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Text"/><text:sequence-decl text:display-outline-level="0" text:name="Drawing"/></text:sequence-decls><text:p text:style-name="Standard">Hello World</text:p></office:text></office:body></code></p>
<p><small>Fragment of <em>content.xml</em></small></p>
<p>The Open Document format is written in a rather clean kind of
<a href="http://ffff">xhtml,</a> which means it is legible compared to most other
Word Processing or Desktop Publishing files we looked at. Still that did
not mean it was evident how odfpy generates a frame, or calculates the
size of a font. The odfpy documentation is rudimentary; it provides
extensive information on the hierarchy of frames, elements and styles
but for example not a list of what style-options are available. While it
is nice to know at what point a frame needs to be generated, without the
syntax for a single or triple border, whether it is red or shaded you
can only guess. We designed sample files and than browsed their
'source', reverse engineering document settings and -styles with the
help of the Open Document file specifications. It obviously took us a
ridiculous amount of time to generate 162 different templates in this
way.</p>
<p><code># -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # drawing hearts in the snow! from odf.opendocument import OpenDocumentText from odf.text import P, Span from odf.style import Style, TextProperties, ParagraphProperties, BackgroundImage, GraphicProperties from odf.draw import Frame, TextBox from texts import * from liblove import *</code><br>
<small>From the header of character_spices.py: A heartwarming
address</small></p>
<p>Even when the odfpy-scripts Ivan was writing and rewriting, started to
read more and more like love letters themselves ... even with our
general distrust of efficient methods ... would we have been better off
doing all this by hand? With the printer deadline approaching rapidly,
we had to settle for a very basic set of styles but managed to use
nearly every OSP font currently available. This publication will be both
a <em>stalenboek</em> and fontcatalog.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/openbaar/herbal_scripts.zip">herbal_scripts.zip</a><br>
<small>After having installed odfpy, run <code>$ python name_of_script.py</code>
in your commandline and generate many .odt files at once</small></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/openbaar/OSP_fonts_ok.zip">OSP_fonts_ok.zip</a><br>
<small>Sneak preview: Drop the contents of this folder into
[yourhomefolder]/.fonts and restart OpenOffice</small></p>
<p><strong>Output to different media</strong><br>
Our next concern was to generate a pdf that could be handled by the
in-house city council printer of Elsene. We had 162 A4 .odt files and
three A5 .pdf files (produced in Scribus) that needed to be combined
into one pdf. We wrote a bash-script that takes all .odt files inside a
folder, transforms them into pdf, resizes them from A4 to A5 and than
gathers all files into a multi-page pdf.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/openbaar/transform.sh">transform.sh</a><br>
<small>Using some of our favorite tools: unoconv, ps2pdf, psresize and
pdftk transform a series of A4 .odt files into a multi-page A5
pdf.</small></p>
<p>As we were working on generating the files until the last minute, we
failed to notice that we somehow introduced full color into a pdf that
would need to be printed in black-and-white. Also, the printer needed
PDF1.3 and we were generating default PDF1.4. In a quick fix, we added
<a href="">ghostscript</a> to the already long list of pdf-tools used in the
bash-script; probably making many other steps redundant (ps2pdf has
ghostscript integrated for example) but no time for clean-up or rewrite.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/openbaar/transform_gray.sh">transform_gray.sh</a></p>
<p>Still not all trouble was over. Our printer reported that he was unable
to deal with part of the embedded fonts (Unable to read .ttf? Using an
old-style rip?) but probably inspired by our friendly persistance, he
figured out a way to transform our files into postscript once more,
regenerate the font-images from there and finally ... the file passed.</p>
<p><strong>Textflow and style names</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/character.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3799" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/character.png" title="character"></a><br>
<small>OpenOffice: Where did the characterstyles go?</small></p>
<p>The custom publications An will produce on the fly are based on the same
.odt templates that we printed in the catalog. In a first dry-run, we
realised that they needed to be corrected since the documents we had
generated for the printed catalog, basically consisted of single frames.
Also, it took a bit of work to generate documents that made the applied
styles correctly available in the OpenOffice style menu. We managed by
making each of the documents 16 pages (maximum length of the booklet)
but gave up on making character styles behave correctly.</p>
<p><strong>podofoimpose</strong><br>
“<em>PoDoFo is a library to work with the PDF file format and includes also
a few tools. The name comes from the first two letters of PDF (Portable
Document Format)</em>”</p>
<p>After Ludivine converted three of our favourite templates into <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/openbaar/love-web01.zip">css
stylesheets for
web-output</a>
(we love @fontface!), our last challenge was to deal with was
imposition. <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/how-to-print-a-booklet-in-16-steps">Since early
OSP-days</a>
we've been experimenting with several ways to generate A5 booklets, but
we never managed 2 x 8 pages on an A4 (A7 booklet). Pierre Marchand
pointed us once again to PoDoFO, a pdf-processing tool to which he once
added <em>podofoimpose</em>, adding the useful function to run custom
imposition 'plans'. With only a bit of trouble and help, we installed
PoDoFo on our machines (We're using Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.10):</p>
<p>Start with downloading ('check out') the latest files with svn (install
svn with <code>$ sudo apt-get install subversion</code>)</p>
<p><code>$ svn co https://podofo.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/podofo/podofo/trunk podofo</code></p>
<p>Download and install the libraries PoDofo depends on:</p>
<p><code>$ sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ cmake libz-dev libtiff-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6-dev libfontconfig-dev</code><br>
<code>$ sudo apt-get install liblua5.1-0-dev</code></p>
<p>Than, copy the files into a folder into your home directory (you need to
create the folder first):</p>
<p><code>$ mkdir /home/[your_user_name]/src/podofo</code><br>
<code>$ cp /home/[podofo_download] /home/[your_user_name]/src/podofo</code></p>
<p>From inside the build folder, you now need to compile PoDoFo from source
with the help of the cmake-compiler (install cmake with
<code>$ sudo apt-get install cmake</code>)</p>
<p><code>$ cd /home/[your_user_name]/src/podofo/build</code><br>
<code>$ mkdir $ cd $ cmake ../podofo $ make $ sudo su $ make install</code></p>
<p>podofoimpose can read imposition instructions from files written in lua,
a scripting language that is used with ConTeXt for example. With the
help of a proper paper dummy, Ludivine managed to write the correct
'plan' to output A7 booklets :-D</p>
<p><a href="http://ludi.be/contenu/InOctavo.plan">InOctavo.plan</a></p>
<p><code>PushRecord((pgroup*count)+9, (count*2)+1, rot2, 0, tw) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+16, (count*2)+1, rot1, 2*th, 0) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+13, (count*2)+1, rot1, 2*th, 3*tw) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+12, (count*2)+1, rot2, 0, 4*tw) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+1, (count*2)+1, rot1, 2*th, tw) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+8, (count*2)+1, rot2, 0, 2*tw) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+4, (count*2)+1, rot1, 2*th, 2*tw) PushRecord((pgroup*count)+5, (count*2)+1, rot2, 0, 3*tw)</code><br>
<small>Turning and twisting: imposition from scratch</small></p>
<p>You can use the plan like this:</p>
<p><code>$ podofoimpose output.pdf input.pdf InOctavo.plan lua</code></p>
<p><strong>A loose hand</strong><br>
When the printed catalog is finally delivered, the result is not what we
expected. Pages are out of order and it seems they only printed the left
bottom crop/bleed mark and than everything has been cut out of the
format at the top and right side. When we try to complain, we realise
that dealing with an in-house city council printer has its
complications. To explain our exotic project to them is not easy. But we
do not flinch and keep smiling, even if we did not hand in any certified
pdf's ... and even omitted page numbers! In the end, the responsible
politician grants us a re-print.</p>
<p>So ... after all: A Happy Valentine!</p>O S P double2010-01-14T17:26:00+01:002010-01-14T17:26:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2010-01-14:/live/o-s-p-double.html<p>Pour le numéro de janvier consacré à la visualisation de données, le
magazine français <a href="http://www.etapes.com/">étapes:</a> ouvre une double
page à OSP pour notre carte <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/osp-full-scale-in-beaubourg">Cinéma du réel
2009</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_int_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_int_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_int_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_int_small"></a></p>
<p>> <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/o-s-p-double#more-3749">voir
+</a><br>
<!--more--><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_cover_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_cover_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_cover_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_cover_small"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte01_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_texte01_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte01_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_texte01_small"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte02_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_texte02_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte02_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_texte02_small"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte03_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_texte03_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte03_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_texte03_small"></a></p><p>Pour le numéro de janvier consacré à la visualisation de données, le
magazine français <a href="http://www.etapes.com/">étapes:</a> ouvre une double
page à OSP pour notre carte <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/osp-full-scale-in-beaubourg">Cinéma du réel
2009</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_int_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_int_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_int_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_int_small"></a></p>
<p>> <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/o-s-p-double#more-3749">voir
+</a><br>
<!--more--><br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_cover_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_cover_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_cover_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_cover_small"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte01_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_texte01_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte01_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_texte01_small"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte02_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_texte02_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte02_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_texte02_small"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte03_small.jpg"><img alt="osp-etapes_texte03_small" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3750" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/osp-etapes_texte03_small.jpg" title="osp-etapes_texte03_small"></a></p>OSP wins Fernand Baudin Prize2009-12-17T21:04:00+01:002009-12-17T21:04:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-12-17:/news/osp-wins-fernand-baudin-prize.html<p><strong>Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields</strong>, published by Constant and designed by
OSP with ConTeXt and Scribus, has been awarded one of 9 prizes for</p>
<p>
<center>
</p>
<p><em>The Most Beautiful Book of Brussels and Wallonia</em></p>
<p>✵ ✯ ✵</p>
<p>
[![Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf]({filename}/images/uploads/Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf-75x52.png "Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf"){: .alignright .size-thumbnail .wp-image-3709 width="75" height="52 …</p><p><strong>Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields</strong>, published by Constant and designed by
OSP with ConTeXt and Scribus, has been awarded one of 9 prizes for</p>
<p>
<center>
</p>
<p><em>The Most Beautiful Book of Brussels and Wallonia</em></p>
<p>✵ ✯ ✵</p>
<p>
[![Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf]({filename}/images/uploads/Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf-75x52.png "Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf"){: .alignright .size-thumbnail .wp-image-3709 width="75" height="52"}]({filename}/images/uploads/Screenshot-vj10-cover-recto.pdf.png)
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</center>
</p>
<p>More about the prize: <a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be">http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be</a></p>
<p>About the design and production process (also included in the
publication):</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/makingof.pdf">The Making
Of</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Related posts:</p>
<ul>
<li>Episode 1: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/designing-with-latex">Designing with
LaTeX</a></li>
<li>Episode 2: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/lions-and-tulips">Lions and
Tulips</a></li>
<li>Intermezzo:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/entretemps-ondertussen-meanwhile">Entretemps-Ondertussen-Meanwhile</a></li>
<li>Episode 3: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/tools/pelgrimage-to-pragma">Pelgrimage to
Pragma</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Sources: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/vj10">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/vj10</a></p>
<p>We are so proud!</p>Dingbat Liberation Fest II2009-12-04T18:13:00+01:002009-12-04T18:13:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-12-04:/live/dingbat-liberation-fest-ii.html<h3>Friday December 11</h3>
<p>Location: <a href="http://www.cascoprojects.org/">CASCO, Office for Art, Design and
Theory</a> Utrecht (NL)</p>
<h1>☔ ✈ ❀ ☺ ❍ ✌ ☺ ✈ ❉</h1>
<p>[caption id="attachment_3675" align="alignright" width="400"
caption="Marzipan production at the Dingbat Liberation Fest
I"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/marzipan.jpg"><img alt="Marzipan production at the Dingbat Liberation Fest
I" class="size-medium wp-image-3675" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/marzipan.jpg" title="marzipan"></a>[/caption]Next
week, OSP is happy to re-play <a href="http://constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?article35">Dingbat
kitchen</a> with students
from the <a href="http://www.artez.nl/mediagraphicdesign">Arnhem Academy of Art and
Design</a>.</p>
<p>"<em>Dingbats …</em></p><h3>Friday December 11</h3>
<p>Location: <a href="http://www.cascoprojects.org/">CASCO, Office for Art, Design and
Theory</a> Utrecht (NL)</p>
<h1>☔ ✈ ❀ ☺ ❍ ✌ ☺ ✈ ❉</h1>
<p>[caption id="attachment_3675" align="alignright" width="400"
caption="Marzipan production at the Dingbat Liberation Fest
I"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/marzipan.jpg"><img alt="Marzipan production at the Dingbat Liberation Fest
I" class="size-medium wp-image-3675" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/marzipan.jpg" title="marzipan"></a>[/caption]Next
week, OSP is happy to re-play <a href="http://constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?article35">Dingbat
kitchen</a> with students
from the <a href="http://www.artez.nl/mediagraphicdesign">Arnhem Academy of Art and
Design</a>.</p>
<p>"<em>Dingbats have sneaked into most computers nowadays. They're as much a
part of the Unicode Standard as the Roman Alphabet is. Dingbats are up
for grabs; it’s just a matter of locating them on your harddisk. The
font projects OSP develops and the dingbats they sample, function in a
something that could perhaps be called a Commons. But how can we really
get our hands on them? Let's find out and liberate (y)our dingbats!</em>"<br>
<!--more--><br>
<strong>Ingredients</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>800 grams ground almonds </li>
<li>800 grams powdered sugar </li>
<li>a bit of water </li>
<li>almond essence </li>
<li>rolling pin </li>
<li>1 large bowl </li>
<li>1 large spoon </li>
<li>grease proof paper </li>
<li>multiple installs of Inkscape </li>
<li>cookie cutters </li>
<li>a beamer (preferably 2 that can project side by side) </li>
<li>an internet connection </li>
<li>natural food coloring (3 different colors) </li>
<li>a complete overview of the Unicode standard </li>
<li>a complete set of Unicode numbers 2700–27BF including their
descriptions, printed on paper slips and folded inwards </li>
<li>200 sheets of black paper (A4) </li>
<li>200 sheets of white paper (A4) </li>
<li>15 cutters </li>
<li>glue </li>
<li>2 serving trays or 3 large plates </li>
<li>tape </li>
<li>3 digital cameras </li>
<li>cardboard or cutting mats</li>
</ul>Dingbat Carpet2009-11-20T09:35:00+01:002009-11-20T09:35:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-11-20:/news/dingbat-carpet.html<p><img alt="dingbat" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3655" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dingbat.jpg" title="dingbat"><br>
<small>Ludi draws a giant 26FD Unicode dingbat (from the recent <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/#Character_Additions">5.2
character
additions</a>)</small></p>
<p>More images: <a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=29200">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=29200</a></p><p><img alt="dingbat" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3655" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dingbat.jpg" title="dingbat"><br>
<small>Ludi draws a giant 26FD Unicode dingbat (from the recent <a href="http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/#Character_Additions">5.2
character
additions</a>)</small></p>
<p>More images: <a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=29200">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=29200</a></p>☔☺☔ ✈ ❍ ✌2009-11-16T11:01:00+01:002009-11-16T11:01:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-11-16:/live/dingbat-liberation-fest-populated-fonts.html<h2>Thursday Jeudi 26/11</h2>
<h3>Dingbat Liberation Fest + Populated Fonts</h3>
<p><strong>@ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: *<a href="http://www.constantvzw.org/vj12">By Data We
Mean</a></strong>*<br>
<a href="http://constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?article16">Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels
Bruxelles</a></p>
<!--more-->
<h3>Dingbat Liberation Fest</h3>
<p>14:00 > 17:00</p>
<p>[EN] Dingbat kitchen! The fonts OSP started from and the dingbats that
they sample come from a something that …</p><h2>Thursday Jeudi 26/11</h2>
<h3>Dingbat Liberation Fest + Populated Fonts</h3>
<p><strong>@ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: *<a href="http://www.constantvzw.org/vj12">By Data We
Mean</a></strong>*<br>
<a href="http://constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?article16">Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels
Bruxelles</a></p>
<!--more-->
<h3>Dingbat Liberation Fest</h3>
<p>14:00 > 17:00</p>
<p>[EN] Dingbat kitchen! The fonts OSP started from and the dingbats that
they sample come from a something that could perhaps be called a
Commons. Dingbats have sneaked into most computers nowadays. They’re as
much a part of the Unicode Standard as the Roman Alphabet. Dingbats are
there for grabbing. It’s just a matter of locating them in your hard
disk.</p>
<p>[FR] Un atelier cuisine autour des dingbats communs. Les polices de
caractères et dingbats à partir desquelles OSP a travaillé, proviennent
d’un échantillon de quelque chose qui pourrait être appelé un bien
commun. Ces symboles se sont infiltrés dans la plupart de nos
ordinateurs. Ils font partie de la norme Unicode comme l’alphabet
romain. Reste à les localiser sur votre disque dur.</p>
<h3>Populated Fonts</h3>
<p>17:00 > 18:00</p>
<p>[EN] A presentation of the typographic design process that connects
the Cimatics platform identity with Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: a
development and extension of a pictures/glyph translation process.
Around dingbats and into the em, Ivan et Ludi will present an attempt
(crack) to develop images contained into data and Unicode standards (or
its negative). The Showery Weather, the Have a Nice Day!, and the black
blocks of the Unicode Standard are circumventing the old AsciiArt engine
to generate matrix landscapes populated by text.</p>
<p>[FR] Présentation du design typographique qui relie l’identité de
Verbindingen/Jonctions 12 au graphisme de la platforme Cimatics: le
développement et l'extension d’un processus de traduction image/glyphe.
Autour du dingbats, Ivan et Ludi présentent une tentative de révéler des
images cachées ou contenues dans les données et les standards. Une bande
de pictogrammes "temps de pluie", un smiley et quelques blocs noirs du
standard Unicode contournent le vieux moteur AsciiArt pour générer des
paysages matriciels, peuplés de texte.</p>
<p><small>In collaboration with En collaboration avec le Festival Cimatics
2009</small></p>Tracks in electr(on)ic fields2009-11-15T22:09:00+01:002009-11-15T22:09:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-11-15:/news/tracks-in-electronic-fields.html<h2>Tuesday Mardi 24/11</h2>
<h3>Booklaunch: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields</h3>
<p><strong>@ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: *<a href="http://www.constantvzw.org/vj12">By Data We
Mean</a></strong>*<br>
<a href="http://constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?article16">Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels
Bruxelles</a></p>
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<p>We are very happy to announce the launch of the long awaited book
<em>Verbindingen/Jontions 10: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields</em>. Nearly two …</p><h2>Tuesday Mardi 24/11</h2>
<h3>Booklaunch: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields</h3>
<p><strong>@ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: *<a href="http://www.constantvzw.org/vj12">By Data We
Mean</a></strong>*<br>
<a href="http://constantvzw.org/vj12/spip.php?article16">Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels
Bruxelles</a></p>
<!--more-->
<p>We are very happy to announce the launch of the long awaited book
<em>Verbindingen/Jontions 10: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields</em>. Nearly two
years in the making, this book is the result of our adventures in TeX,
LaTex and ConTeXt plus a cover in Scribus feat. Spiro. The booklaunch
marks the opening of a new edition of <a href="%20http://constantvzw.org/vj12">Jonctions/Verbindingen: By Data
We Mean</a><br>
More news as soon as the books arrive from the printer :-)</p>Watch this thread: LGM site and logo proposal2009-10-01T10:33:00+02:002009-10-01T10:33:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-10-01:/news/watch-this-thread-lgm-site-and-logo-proposal.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/sketch.JPG"><img alt="sketch" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3459" src="{filename}/images/uploads/sketch.jpg" title="sketch"></a></p>
<p>After heated debates, intensive collaborative working sessions and many
hesitations, OSP feat. <a href="http://alexandreleray.com/">Alexandre Leray</a>
finally proposed a new identity for the upcoming <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> to the Libre Graphics
community.</p>
<p>Since the next meeting will take place in in our home town Brussels, we
felt that it was important to …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/sketch.JPG"><img alt="sketch" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3459" src="{filename}/images/uploads/sketch.jpg" title="sketch"></a></p>
<p>After heated debates, intensive collaborative working sessions and many
hesitations, OSP feat. <a href="http://alexandreleray.com/">Alexandre Leray</a>
finally proposed a new identity for the upcoming <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> to the Libre Graphics
community.</p>
<p>Since the next meeting will take place in in our home town Brussels, we
felt that it was important to at least try to shift the way our
favourite tools are represented. We wrote to the Create mailinglist:</p>
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<blockquote>
<p>Our main design concern was about how to represent digital tools in
their diversity, from Desktop Publishing to 3D modeling, from
typography to batch processing etc., showing by this means the
multiplicity of the projects gathered at the Libre Graphics Meeting.
This is the role assigned to the background, a static SVG composition
of some of the most significant digital tools from the libre projects.
This background, present on all the pages, zooms and pans randomly on
each page loading, thanks to a small javascript. This gives to the
readers unexpected exploration of the territories of that "map of
creative tools".</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/background.png"><img alt="detail" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3459" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/detail.png" title="detail"></a></p>
<p><small>Dynamic background in SVG: unexpected explorations of the "map of
creative tools"</small></p>
<blockquote>
<p>The logo is a play with the M of Meeting, shifting between 2D and 3D
perception; between static and movement. 3 squares for a flag. A flag
for a meeting. A flag for a place, and for a space. A typographic flag
for an italic M. 3 squares for pixels. 15 degrees rotated squares for
vectors. 3 squares of progressive sizes to evoque movement. 3 sizes
overlapping for 3D optical effect. 3 windows floating. The typeface
used, is OSP-DIN.</p>
</blockquote>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/planche1.png"><img alt="planche" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3459" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/planche1.png" title="planche"></a></p>
<p><small>Logo proposal: A flag for a Meeting. A flag for a place, and for
a space</small></p>
<blockquote>
<p>As the background is very present, we decided to base mainly the
website on text. It is set with Dave Crossland's open typeface
Cantarell, available for download at Open Font Library. This humanist
sans-serif font was designed for on screen reading therefore it is
very legible even on small sizes. This choice was made to promote the
Open Font Library, the GPL and Fontforge with which was made the font,
but also the new @font-face CSS rules newly (re-)introduced in Firefox
3.5 (among other web browsers). Not to mention that Dave is a very
active Create member and a professional type designer.</p>
<p>We picked up the yellow color as a way to keep the foreground legible.
The latter is made of two colors, a navy blue and a brown, to
differentiate two levels of information. We also decided to "mute" the
partners logos by converting them to a single color in order to keep
the whole homogeneous.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It's no easy task ;-) to design for such a divergent mix of developers,
free software activists, artists and designers but we're determined to
find a constructive middle ground and keep the energy of our proposal
alive.</p>
<p>Watch this thread and give <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_two_cents_%28idiom%29">your 2
cents</a>:<br>
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-September/thread.html#2056">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-September/thread.html#2056</a><br>
<a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-October/thread.html#2063">http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-October/thread.html#2063<br>
</a></p>
<p>Logo proposal: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/logo">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/logo</a>
(please install OSP-DIN)<br>
Website sketch: <a href="http://lgm.alexandreleray.com">http://lgm.alexandreleray.com</a></p>Keep Your Fingers Crossed2009-09-15T20:29:00+02:002009-09-15T20:29:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-09-15:/news/keep-your-fingers-crossed.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060690.JPG"><img alt="P1060690" class="float" height="75" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060690-75x75.jpg" title="P1060690" width="75"></a>←
This letter proves that we just handed in a dossier at the Ministry of
Culture, Youth, Sport and Brussels (Vlaamse Gemeenschap). With Constant
colleague <a href="http://videomagazijn.org/">Peter Westenberg</a>, OSP wrote an
application to ask for support for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010.
There is only a <em>very</em> small chance that it will …</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060690.JPG"><img alt="P1060690" class="float" height="75" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/P1060690-75x75.jpg" title="P1060690" width="75"></a>←
This letter proves that we just handed in a dossier at the Ministry of
Culture, Youth, Sport and Brussels (Vlaamse Gemeenschap). With Constant
colleague <a href="http://videomagazijn.org/">Peter Westenberg</a>, OSP wrote an
application to ask for support for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010.
There is only a <em>very</em> small chance that it will make it (LGM is sort of
hors catégorie) but wouldn't it be nice if the committee 'Architectuur
en Vormgeving' also thinks that LGM is relevant?</p>
<p>Full dossier (in Dutch, 25 MB):
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/LGM2010VG.pdf">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/LGM2010/LGM2010VG.pdf</a></p>Free Software and Cars2009-08-12T22:55:00+02:002009-08-12T22:55:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-08-12:/tools/free-software-and-cars.html<p><img alt="iQ" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3289" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/iQ1.png" title="iQ"><br>
In this recent Toyota campaign, a race-driver draws a font. And if you
watch the fast-paced 'making-of' video closely, it seems that Please
Make Me Design (a band of type-designers from Brussels) used Free
Software to produce it: FontForge and OpenLayers are used to create the
project.</p>
<p><img alt="screenshot-inkscape" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3289" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/screenshot-inkscape.png" title="screenshot-inkscape"></p>
<p>A few years …</p><p><img alt="iQ" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3289" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/iQ1.png" title="iQ"><br>
In this recent Toyota campaign, a race-driver draws a font. And if you
watch the fast-paced 'making-of' video closely, it seems that Please
Make Me Design (a band of type-designers from Brussels) used Free
Software to produce it: FontForge and OpenLayers are used to create the
project.</p>
<p><img alt="screenshot-inkscape" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3289" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/screenshot-inkscape.png" title="screenshot-inkscape"></p>
<p>A few years ago, I started to collect
Free-Software-screenshots-featuring-cars. I was thinking about the
design of softwares, which means to somehow imagine how a tool will be
used, even before it exists. I started looking at the kinds of
screenshots F/LOSS graphics projects put out to advertise their
projects, because it might show something about the nature of the
practice that it intends to support. At that time, many of them featured
... cars. Confirming all the gendered cliché's of your typical software
developer, Scribus, Gimp and Inkscape had independently decided to
feature high powered, mean machines as the main subject to demo their
softwares with. Luckily, the collection never grew very large, and I am
starting to think there is a chance the F/LOSS community finally will is
coming to terms with its own blind spot vis-a-vis the lack of diversity
within.</p>
<p><img alt="13674" class="alignright size-full wp-image-3289" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/13674.jpg" title="13674"></p>
<p>"<em>There is no such thing as a perfect application, just as there are no
perfect automobiles, and the designers know this</em>" ((Gregory Pittman
compares the look-and-feel of Scribus to that of a Mercedes car. Scribus
mailinglist,
<a href="http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-February/027866.html">http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-February/027866.html</a>))</p>
<p>To see Free Software being featured in a car-ad is an exciting
development; it hints at the possibility of those tools being
interesting and mature enough to appear on the radar of design agencies.
But it is also frustrating that designers + developers meet on the same
predictable representation of technology.</p>LGM 2010: date and venue2009-07-14T16:56:00+02:002009-07-14T16:56:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-07-14:/news/lgm-2010-date-and-venue.html<p><strong>27 - 30 May 2010 in De Pianofabriek, Brussels</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1159"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1159-p1060545.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1167"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1167-church.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1169"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1169-cour.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1170"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1170-expo.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1171"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1171-fortstraat.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1173"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1173-maison.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1174"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1174-zabriskie.JPG"></a></p>
<p>Still nearly 9 months to go, but preparations for a next edition of the
Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels have started.</p>
<p>In our quest for the ultimate LGM 2010 venue, we checked out many
potential spaces, but finally settled for De Pianofabriek …</p><p><strong>27 - 30 May 2010 in De Pianofabriek, Brussels</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1159"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1159-p1060545.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1167"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1167-church.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1169"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1169-cour.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1170"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1170-expo.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1171"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1171-fortstraat.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1173"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1173-maison.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=picture&id=1174"><img alt="Plogger
Image" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/lgm2010/lgm-locations/large/1174-zabriskie.JPG"></a></p>
<p>Still nearly 9 months to go, but preparations for a next edition of the
Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels have started.</p>
<p>In our quest for the ultimate LGM 2010 venue, we checked out many
potential spaces, but finally settled for De Pianofabriek in our
neighbourhood St. Gilles. With the main Midi station and historic city
centre at walking distance, <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=50.8317339420319&lon=4.34794664382935&zoom=16">its
location</a>
is ideal to begin with.</p>
<p>The Pianofabriek venue consists of several interconnected buildings
which used to belong to <a href="http://www.irismonument.irisnet.be/nl.p.send.Sint-Gillis.Garibaldistraat.25.html">piano factory
Gunther</a>.
Built at the end of the 19th century, a recent renovation transformed it
into an artslab / cultural center housing class rooms, an exhibition
space, meeting rooms, workshop spaces, a theatre, a dance rehearsal hall
and much more. Its lively atmosphere will be a productive context for
the kinds of workshops, presentations, work meetings and informal
exchanges that make up LGM, and we hope that in-between intensive work,
participants find time to enjoy the many nice bars, restaurants and
café's around nearby Parvis de St. Gilles!</p>Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels2009-06-11T10:12:00+02:002009-06-11T10:12:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-06-11:/news/libre-graphics-meeting-2010-in-brussels.html<p>[en français, voir ci-dessous]</p>
<p>Next spring, the fifth Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will take place in
Brussels, Belgium. In May 2010, users and developers of Free, Libre and
Open Source creative software gather in the European capital for the
collective sharing of creativity, innovation and ideas.</p>
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<p><strong>About the Libre Graphics …</strong></p><p>[en français, voir ci-dessous]</p>
<p>Next spring, the fifth Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will take place in
Brussels, Belgium. In May 2010, users and developers of Free, Libre and
Open Source creative software gather in the European capital for the
collective sharing of creativity, innovation and ideas.</p>
<!--more-->
<p><strong>About the Libre Graphics Meeting</strong><br>
The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts
behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this
annual meeting has been the premiere conference for developers, users
and supporters of projects such as <a href="http://www.gimp.org/%20">GIMP</a>,
<a href="http://www.inkscape.org/">Inkscape</a>,
<a href="http://www.blender.org/">Blender</a>, <a href="http://koffice.org/krita/">Krita</a>,
<a href="http://www.scribus.net/">Scribus</a>,
<a href="http://hugin.sourceforge.net">Hugin</a>, the <a href="http://www.openclipart.org">Open Clipart
Library</a>, and the <a href="http://www.openfontlibrary.org">Open Font
Library</a> gather to work on
interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs
has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color
management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats.</p>
<p>Face-to-face meetings and opportunities for collaboration are important
to developers and users alike; in the form of tutorials, talks,
workshops, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) the event offers many formal and
informal opportunities to interact.</p>
<p>The conference is free for everyone to attend.</p>
<p>LGM 2010 is hosted by <a href="http://www.constantvzw.org">Constant</a> and the
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/">Libre Graphics Community</a>.</p>
<p>For more information, visit
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a></p>
<hr>
<h3>Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 à Bruxelles</h3>
<p>Les prochaines rencontres Libre Graphics (LGM), cinquièmes du genre, se
tiendront au mois de mai 2010 à Bruxelles. Ce prochain printemps sera
l'occasion pour les utilisateurs et développeurs de logiciels Libres et
Open-source destinés à la création graphique de se réunir dans la
capitale européenne pour un brassage d'idées, mais aussi un grand moment
de partage de créativité et d'innovations.</p>
<p><strong>A propos du Libre Graphics Meeting</strong><br>
Ces rencontres ont été créées pour coordonner, unifier et accélérer les
efforts consentis pour faire évoluer les logiciels Libres et Open-source
destinés à la création graphique. Ces rencontres annuelles se sont
imposées depuis leur première en 2006 comme le point focal des
conférences pour développeurs, utilisateurs et enthousiastes de projets
tels que The GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open
Clipart Library, et the Open Font Library. Et ceci avec une vision
particulièrement orientée vers l'interopérabilité, les innovations et
l'application de standards communs. Les travaux résultant des premières
LGMs ont considérablement fait progresser des secteurs essentiels comme
la gestion de la couleur, le partage inter-applications des acquis et
les formats communs.</p>
<p>Les tête-à-tête et occasions de collaboration sont riches et essentiels
pour les utilisateurs et développeurs : les LGMs permettent d'offrir une
multitude d'occasions formalisées ou non d'interagir, sous la forme
d'ateliers, exposés, cours et démos et, enfin, de discussions ouvertes.</p>
<p>Ces rencontres sont ouvertes à toutes et à tous, gratuitement.</p>
<p>LGM 2010 est organisée par la communauté du Libre Graphics et Constant
v.z.w.</p>
<p>Pour plus d'informations, visitez
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org">www.libregraphicsmeeting.org</a></p>OSP + Scribus = Prizewinning Design!2009-06-05T20:36:00+02:002009-06-05T20:36:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-06-05:/news/osp-scribus-prizewinning-design.html<p><a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=26159&g2_page=2"><img alt="dsc03255" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2891" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dsc03255.jpg" title="dsc03255"></a></p>
<p>Yesterday OSP received a <a href="http://www.plantinmoretusprijzen.be/?p=deprijs">Plantin-Moretus prize
2009</a> for best designed
book in the category non fiction. The jury about
<a href="http://www.lannoo.be/Content/lannoo/wbnl/listview/1/index.jsp?titelcode=14298&fondsid=16">Cross-over</a>:
"<em>It was love at first sight</em>". The book, published by BAM and Lannoo
and edited by Liesbeth Huybregts, uses Libre Fonts and is produced with
Scribus and many other F …</p><p><a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=26159&g2_page=2"><img alt="dsc03255" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2891" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dsc03255.jpg" title="dsc03255"></a></p>
<p>Yesterday OSP received a <a href="http://www.plantinmoretusprijzen.be/?p=deprijs">Plantin-Moretus prize
2009</a> for best designed
book in the category non fiction. The jury about
<a href="http://www.lannoo.be/Content/lannoo/wbnl/listview/1/index.jsp?titelcode=14298&fondsid=16">Cross-over</a>:
"<em>It was love at first sight</em>". The book, published by BAM and Lannoo
and edited by Liesbeth Huybregts, uses Libre Fonts and is produced with
Scribus and many other F/LOSS tools. We think it is probably the first
publication made in Free Software crowned 'best designed book' and we
are sure it is not going to be the last!</p>
<p>The prize is named after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin-Moretus_Museum">Plantin
Moretus</a>, a 16th
century printing and publishing house in Antwerp renowned for its high
quality cartography, typography and engraving.</p>
<p>OSP feels honoured :-)</p>
<p>[<a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=26159">more
pictures</a>]</p>Gestes Numériques2009-06-01T16:14:00+02:002009-06-01T16:14:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-06-01:/conversations/gestes-numeriques.html<p>[<img alt="Stephane" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25736&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="Loic" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25742&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="Marc" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25744&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="Michel" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25738&g2_serialNumber=2">](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=25728)</p>
<p>Our colleagues from <a href="http://osvideo.constantvzw.org">Open Source Video</a>
published a video-registration of the discussion that took place at the
yearly <a href="http://journeesdulibre.bxlug.be/">Journées du Libre</a>.<br>
Enjoy Loic Vanderstichelen, Stéphane Noël, Michel Cleempoel and Marc
Wathieu as they present with humour and enthusiasm why F/LOSS is …</p><p>[<img alt="Stephane" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25736&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="Loic" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25742&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="Marc" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25744&g2_serialNumber=2"><img alt="Michel" src="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=25738&g2_serialNumber=2">](http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=25728)</p>
<p>Our colleagues from <a href="http://osvideo.constantvzw.org">Open Source Video</a>
published a video-registration of the discussion that took place at the
yearly <a href="http://journeesdulibre.bxlug.be/">Journées du Libre</a>.<br>
Enjoy Loic Vanderstichelen, Stéphane Noël, Michel Cleempoel and Marc
Wathieu as they present with humour and enthusiasm why F/LOSS is
relevant for art- and design education (in French).</p>
<p><a href="http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/journees-du-libre-09/">http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/journees-du-libre-09/</a></p>Reportage : day 22009-05-08T06:29:00+02:002009-05-08T06:29:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-05-08:/live/reportage-day-2.html<p>This foggy fog second day of LGM starts in the run to arrive on time for
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=30">our talk</a>.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/program.php">middle of the
day</a>, <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/">Ginger
Coons</a> put the fluid into the audience, and his
very vigorous talk bring a rare momentum of open and deep discussion at
LGM. So just …</p><p>This foggy fog second day of LGM starts in the run to arrive on time for
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=30">our talk</a>.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/program.php">middle of the
day</a>, <a href="http://adaptstudio.ca/">Ginger
Coons</a> put the fluid into the audience, and his
very vigorous talk bring a rare momentum of open and deep discussion at
LGM. So just before eating, we have <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=29">a more clear
picture</a> of
the gradient of opinions on how to try to push publishing floss farther.</p>
<p>At the type workshop of the mid-day, we follow the steps to install
always more fresh <a href="http://fontmatrix.net/">Fontmatrix</a> and discover how
to theme Fontforge (some OSP manuals to come) with full-of-energy
Nicolas Spalinger and Pierre Marchand.</p>
<p><em>"Les utilisateurs de logiciels libres ne les utilisent pas, ils s'en
servent."</em> — Pierre Marchand, LGM 2009, Montréal, in the corridors</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_0163.jpg"><img alt="img_0163" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2579" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_0163.jpg" title="img_0163"></a></p>yes, a busy month2009-05-05T19:08:00+02:002009-05-05T19:08:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-05-05:/news/yes-a-busy-month.html<p>[caption id="attachment_2533" align="alignright" width="400"
caption="NotCourierSans in use (Nova Imaginary Property
programme)"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/nova.jpg"><img alt="NotCourierSans in use (Nova Imaginary Property
programme)" class="size-medium wp-image-2533" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/nova.jpg" title="nova"></a>[/caption]4
+ ½ OSP's are on their way to Montreal, Canada where they will
participate in the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> from <strong>6-9 May</strong>
(expect more news as soon as they land). Next Saturday <strong>May 9 …</strong></p><p>[caption id="attachment_2533" align="alignright" width="400"
caption="NotCourierSans in use (Nova Imaginary Property
programme)"]<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/nova.jpg"><img alt="NotCourierSans in use (Nova Imaginary Property
programme)" class="size-medium wp-image-2533" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/nova.jpg" title="nova"></a>[/caption]4
+ ½ OSP's are on their way to Montreal, Canada where they will
participate in the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> from <strong>6-9 May</strong>
(expect more news as soon as they land). Next Saturday <strong>May 9</strong>, a
special session of <a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?cat=46">Open Source Open
Course</a> in the context of
<a href="http://journeesdulibre.bxlug.be/">Journées du Libre</a> with amongst
others Michel Cleempoel, Stéphane Noël, Olivier di Stefano and of course
Marc Wathieu. OSP reports from the <a href="http://wdka.hro.nl/news.asp?articleid=810#lyjQg5fJDo88WgFOyrn0J6gp-0">Pixel/Print
conference</a>
in Rotterdam <strong>12-13 May</strong> while on <strong>May 14</strong> Cinema Nova's <a href="http://www.nova-cinema.org/index.php?page=prog/112/00cover.fr.htm">Imaginary
Property</a>
kicks off with a presentation by the Parisian editors and Scribus
champions <a href="http://www.le-tigre.net/A-Bruxelles-autour-du-14-mai.html/">Le
Tigre</a>. Many
more things to see and experience there but don't miss the <a href="http://constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article834">OSP
Screencast</a> on <strong>28
May</strong>. But not before on <strong>May 15</strong> <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/gender-art-net">the GenderArtNet
project</a> has been
launched on line! May ends in style with an edition of <a href="http://www.pneu.org">Palais
Châlet</a> on <strong>May 29</strong> in B32 artspice, Maastricht
and the distribution of the last leftovers (if any) from the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/take-away-archive">Take Away
Archive</a> on
<strong>30 + 31 May</strong>.</p>Take Away Archive2009-04-24T11:24:00+02:002009-04-24T11:24:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-04-24:/news/take-away-archive.html<p><strong>25 April to 31 May, open every weekend from 14:00-18:00</strong><br>
<strong>Opening: Friday 24 April 18:00-24:00</strong><br>
Rue de la Senne 17, Brussels</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/posters.jpg"><img alt="posters" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2481" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/posters.jpg" title="posters"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=28">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=28</a></p>
<p>For the opening of a temporary workspace at <a href="http://www.zennestraat17.be">Zennestraat 17 Rue de la
Senne …</a></p><p><strong>25 April to 31 May, open every weekend from 14:00-18:00</strong><br>
<strong>Opening: Friday 24 April 18:00-24:00</strong><br>
Rue de la Senne 17, Brussels</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/posters.jpg"><img alt="posters" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2481" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/posters.jpg" title="posters"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=28">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=28</a></p>
<p>For the opening of a temporary workspace at <a href="http://www.zennestraat17.be">Zennestraat 17 Rue de la
Senne</a>, we have installed the <em>Constant
Take Away Archive</em>, a retrospective of books, posters, CD's and flyers,
published by <a href="http://www.constantvzw.org">Constant</a> since 1997. It's a
unique chance to update your printed matter collection with vintage
must-haves, some by OSP, many by Harrisson. Opening tonight!</p>
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<p><code>C O N S T A N T * P O S T E R S</code></p>
<p><code>01 Not-CourierSans (OSP: Ludivine Loiseau), 2008</code><br>
<code>02 Capture [Les Halles] (Harrisson) 200?</code><br>
<code>03 Stitch and Split (Harrisson), 2005</code><br>
<code>04B + 04A Jonctions/Verbindingen 4 (Harrisson), 2004</code><br>
<code>05 Copy Cult (Harrisson), 2000</code><br>
<code>06 Open Content Logo Repository (Femke Snelting), 2005</code><br>
<code>07A + 07B Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 (Harrisson), 2007</code><br>
<code>08 The Laurence Rassel Show (Terre Thaemlitz), 2006</code><br>
<code>09 Jonctions/Verbindingen 5 (Harrisson), 2001</code><br>
<code>10 Jonctions/Verbindingen 8 (Harrisson), 2004</code><br>
<code>11 Routes + Routines (Harrisson + Peter Westenberg), 2005</code><br>
<code>12 Jonctions/Verbindingen 9 (Roger Teeuwen), 2006</code><br>
<code>13 Digitales 2004 (Harrisson), 2004</code><br>
<code>14 Cinema Du Reel [BPI] (OSP: Ludivine Loiseau + Harrisson), 2009</code><br>
<code>15 Unravelling Histories (De Geuzen), 2005</code><br>
<code>16 The Exctasy of Influence [La Mediatheque] (OSP: Harrisson), 2009</code><br>
<code>17 Place @ Space [Z33] (Peter Westenberg), 2008</code><br>
<code>18 Jonctions/Verbindingen 6 (Harrisson), 2002</code></p>Pre-announcement: print/pixel conference2009-04-20T21:45:00+02:002009-04-20T21:45:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-04-20:/news/pre-announcement-printpixel-conference.html<p>(forwarded from the research programme <a href="http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/">Communication in a digital
age</a>, Rotterdam)</p>
<p><code>PRINT/PIXEL International conference on the shifting relation between online and print publishing</code></p>
<p><code>Tuesday-Wednesday 12-13 May 2009 | 12-17:00 (public sessions), 20-22:00 (professional sessions)</code></p>
<p><code>The conference investigates the shifting relationship between online and print publishing. Both can no …</code></p><p>(forwarded from the research programme <a href="http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/">Communication in a digital
age</a>, Rotterdam)</p>
<p><code>PRINT/PIXEL International conference on the shifting relation between online and print publishing</code></p>
<p><code>Tuesday-Wednesday 12-13 May 2009 | 12-17:00 (public sessions), 20-22:00 (professional sessions)</code></p>
<p><code>The conference investigates the shifting relationship between online and print publishing. Both can no longer be separated, but complement each other. Yet few advanced comprehensive publication and design strategies beyond ad-hoc copy-paste do exist, and the recent crisis of print news media and advent of new technologies such as e-books and print-on-demand are about to upset the world of designers, editors and publishers. Will XML, cross-media content management systems, ePub, networked on-demand publishing and generative design soon be everyone's vocabulary? International cutting-edge designers, software developers, publishers and researchers - many of them being all of these at once - will give insight into their solutions and discuss the future of publishing.</code></p>
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<p><code>Speakers a.o.: Open Publishing Lab Rochester Institute of Technology (USA), Simon Worthington (OpenMute publishers, UK), Petr van Blokland (graphic designer and typographer, NL), Gerrit Imsieke (Le-Tex publishing services, Germany), Lou Lichtenberg (Stimuleringsfond van de Pers, NL), media workgroup of NRC Handelsblad (NL), Alessandro Ludovico (Neural magazine and Mag.net cultural publishing project, IT), accompanied by a real-time newspaper project by Peter Zuiderwijk (NL) and students of the WdKA Minor Editorial Design, conference blogger Arie Altena (NL) and the CrossLab of the Willem de Kooning Academy.</code></p>
<p><code>The afternoon conference sessions can be freely attended.</code></p>
<p><code>The professional session in the evening is primarily meant for media and design professionals and will include concentrated versions of the afternoon presentations along with workgroup-like peer discussions.</code></p>
<p><code>Attendance fee: EUR 50/evening or EUR 80/two evenings, for members of non-profit organizations: EUR 30/evening, EUR 50/two evenings.</code></p>
<p><code>Locations: WdKA main building, Blaak 10, Rotterdam [public sessions] and Groot Handelsgebouw, at Rotterdam Centraal station [professional sessions]</code></p>
<p><code>For more information on the print/pixel conference, contact: Saskia Brandt Corstius, s.w.brandt.corstius at hro.nl</code></p>Warm gray's liberation is officially delayed2009-04-03T17:37:00+02:002009-04-03T17:37:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-04-03:/news/warm-grays-liberation-is-officially-delayed.html<p><img alt="warmgrayfool" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2373" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/warmgrayfool.png" title="warmgrayfool"><br>
<!--more--><br>
Even if our earlier post was based on a <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-January/001544.html">real and outrageous e-mail
exchange</a>
between Gimp developer David Neary and the marketing department of
Pantone (trying to find a solution so that FLOSS softwares could use the
copyrighted colorsystem)... and even if the <a href="http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/">Color Universal Design
(CUD) organization</a> does exist …</p><p><img alt="warmgrayfool" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2373" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/warmgrayfool.png" title="warmgrayfool"><br>
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Even if our earlier post was based on a <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/create/2009-January/001544.html">real and outrageous e-mail
exchange</a>
between Gimp developer David Neary and the marketing department of
Pantone (trying to find a solution so that FLOSS softwares could use the
copyrighted colorsystem)... and even if the <a href="http://jfly.iam.u-tokyo.ac.jp/color/">Color Universal Design
(CUD) organization</a> does exist
(and is interesting!)... the liberation of twenty new warm grays was
only one of the many dreams that OSP had on this sunny Belgian 1st of
April (and we hoped the same for those 1866 other jailed colors). A
well-known colorblind OSP co-author of the hoax confirms: "Adding shades
of gray is not a solution. Instead, give the vision defect preview in
Scribus a try".</p>Warm Gray Liberation2009-04-01T19:05:00+02:002009-04-01T19:05:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-04-01:/news/warm-gray-liberation.html<p><img alt="warmgray" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2338" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/warmgray.png" title="warmgray"></p>
<p>From the CBUD-mailinglist:</p>
<p><code>Subject: RE: FW: Licensee Application From: "DUURKOOP, JULIA" Date: Wed, 1 April 2009 11:20:25 -0400 To: "Daniel Fary"</code></p>
<p><code>Dear Daniel:</code></p>
<p><code>Thank you for your inquiries and follow-up e-mails. After consulting with executives, engineers and lawyers at the Company, we have decided to insert a series …</code></p><p><img alt="warmgray" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2338" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/warmgray.png" title="warmgray"></p>
<p>From the CBUD-mailinglist:</p>
<p><code>Subject: RE: FW: Licensee Application From: "DUURKOOP, JULIA" Date: Wed, 1 April 2009 11:20:25 -0400 To: "Daniel Fary"</code></p>
<p><code>Dear Daniel:</code></p>
<p><code>Thank you for your inquiries and follow-up e-mails. After consulting with executives, engineers and lawyers at the Company, we have decided to insert a series of gray tones to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. The Company has decided to extend the Pantone® Warm Gray Series in order to create more awareness for Color Universal Design as practiced by the members of your organization because we have understood that gray tones play an important role in a colorblind barrier-free color pallet. To allow the integration of the Pantone® Warm Gray Series in various colorblind proofing and document preparation softwares, we have decided to release this series in the Public Domain.</code></p>
<p><code>The current Pantone® Warm Gray Series will be extended with 20 additional intermediate tones. Compatible with our patented numbering system, we will add Pantone® Warm Gray 13 and Pantone® Warm Gray 17 between Pantone® Warm Gray 1 and Pantone® Warm Gray 2, Pantone® Warm Gray 23 and Pantone® Warm Gray 27 between Pantone® Warm Gray 2 and Pantone® Warm Gray 3 and so on.</code></p>
<p><code>Please be reminded that your organization is not authorized to use any other PANTONE Trademarks, copyrights and/or other intellectual property in connection with any of your products or services unless a formal license agreement is entered into between our companies.”</code></p>Re-Print party: Quatre Quarts II2009-03-30T23:07:00+02:002009-03-30T23:07:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-03-30:/live/re-print-party-quatre-quarts-ii.html<p><strong>Tuesday 31 March 13:00-16:00</strong><br>
Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles</p>
<p><img alt="tools" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/tools.jpg" title="tools">At <a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204">Open course / Open
source</a>, OSP performs a second
run of a Print Party that happened almost a year ago at the exact same
location. This time we have changed roles to serve you another …</p><p><strong>Tuesday 31 March 13:00-16:00</strong><br>
Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles</p>
<p><img alt="tools" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/tools.jpg" title="tools">At <a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204">Open course / Open
source</a>, OSP performs a second
run of a Print Party that happened almost a year ago at the exact same
location. This time we have changed roles to serve you another assorted
collection of stories about engineered fonts, a live cooking lesson,
design 9 new numbers in Inkscape and FontForge, prepare a fresh 16 page
booklet in Scribus and of course end with commandline, cake and ...
print!</p>
<p>Here's one we prepared earlier:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/live/quatre-quarts-multi-track-print-party">quatre-quarts-multi-track-print-party</a></p>OSP + Open Source / Open Course2009-03-24T18:23:00+01:002009-03-24T18:23:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-03-24:/live/open-source-open-course.html<h3>mardi 31 mars 2009 @ ERG, Bruxelles</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204"><img alt="2412606153_62d4f8c1d5" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2295" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2412606153_62d4f8c1d5.jpg" title="2412606153_62d4f8c1d5"></a></p>
<p><strong>Open Course / Open Source : une journée d’information et de rencontre
sur le logiciel libre dans le domaine de l’art. Présentations, partage
d’expériences, print-party and more ...</strong></p>
<p>Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles<br>
<a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204">http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204 …</a></p><h3>mardi 31 mars 2009 @ ERG, Bruxelles</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204"><img alt="2412606153_62d4f8c1d5" class="alignright size-full wp-image-2295" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2412606153_62d4f8c1d5.jpg" title="2412606153_62d4f8c1d5"></a></p>
<p><strong>Open Course / Open Source : une journée d’information et de rencontre
sur le logiciel libre dans le domaine de l’art. Présentations, partage
d’expériences, print-party and more ...</strong></p>
<p>Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles<br>
<a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204">http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204</a></p>
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<p>De 09h30 à 12h00 :<br>
Marc Wathieu : Open Source, une introduction.<br>
Durée : +/-20 min<br>
Web : <a href="http://www.multimedialab.be/">http://www.multimedialab.be/</a></p>
<p>Lionel Maes : Présentation de son projet «Homeostatic»<br>
Durée : +/- 60 min<br>
Web : <a href="http://www.psykolio.com/flux/">http://www.psykolio.com/flux/</a></p>
<p>Sébastien Denooz et Stéphane Noël : Dernières nouvelles de la planète
SPIP<br>
Durée : +/- 60 min<br>
Web : <a href="http://www.workplace.lescorsaires.be/an12/">http://www.workplace.lescorsaires.be/an12/</a></p>
<p>Harrisson : Présentation du travail de OSP sur le livre «CROSS-over»<br>
Web
:<a href="%20http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/kanttekeningen-sidemarks">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/kanttekeningen-sidemarks</a><br>
Durée : +/- 60 min</p>
<p>De 14h00 à 17h00 :</p>
<p>Open Source Publishing : Re-Print Party (cuisine, mise en page et
impression)<br>
Web :
<a href="%20http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/kanttekeningen-sidemarks">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/</a></p>Liberafiontes2009-03-09T10:06:00+01:002009-03-09T10:06:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-03-09:/news/liberafiontes.html<p>03.03.2009 18:39 @ Chaussée de Waterloo / Porte de Hal, Brussels
(sighted by <a href="http://wvw.constantvzw.org/">Wendy</a>):</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation.jpg"><img alt="liberation" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2063" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation.jpg" title="liberation"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation2.jpg"><img alt="liberation2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2063" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation2.jpg" title="liberation2"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/">http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/</a></p><p>03.03.2009 18:39 @ Chaussée de Waterloo / Porte de Hal, Brussels
(sighted by <a href="http://wvw.constantvzw.org/">Wendy</a>):</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation.jpg"><img alt="liberation" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2063" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation.jpg" title="liberation"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation2.jpg"><img alt="liberation2" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-2063" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/liberation2.jpg" title="liberation2"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/">http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/</a></p>Tales of Interrogated Type (Parallel Publishing)2009-03-02T01:26:00+01:002009-03-02T01:26:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-03-02:/news/tales-of-interrogated-type-parallel-publishing.html<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-2.6,44.2,6.9,51.6&layer=mapnik&marker=44.84380,-0.57247" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe>
<p><small><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=47.900000000000006&lon=2.1500000000000004&zoom=6&layers=B000FTFTTT&mlat=44.84380&mlon=-0.57247">View Larger
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<p>OSP is preparing for a long drive: Pierre, Yi, Ivan and Femke leave
Brussels Tuesday morning to be later joined by another
<a href="http://www.oep-h.com/">Pierre</a> (our special guest), Harrisson and
Ludivine (now in Paris producing a tape/vinyl version of their worldmap
for <a href="http://www.cinereel.org/">Cinéma du Réel</a>), in Bordeaux. There …</p><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://www.openstreetmap.org/export/embed.html?bbox=-2.6,44.2,6.9,51.6&layer=mapnik&marker=44.84380,-0.57247" style="border: 1px solid black"></iframe>
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<p>OSP is preparing for a long drive: Pierre, Yi, Ivan and Femke leave
Brussels Tuesday morning to be later joined by another
<a href="http://www.oep-h.com/">Pierre</a> (our special guest), Harrisson and
Ludivine (now in Paris producing a tape/vinyl version of their worldmap
for <a href="http://www.cinereel.org/">Cinéma du Réel</a>), in Bordeaux. There
we'll meet an interdisciplinary team of students and work on a series of
small publications in response to the conference '<a href="http://www.rosab.net/edit/">Edit! norms, formats,
supports</a>'.</p>
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<p><em>Workshop description</em></p>
<h3>Tales of Interrogated Type (Parallel Publishing)</h3>
<p>In the publishing business, the term 'parallel publishing' is used to
describe the production of the same content or information in more than
one medium (typically paper and screen). In this workshop, OSP would
like to test out how to work collaboratively on a document that is
produced simultaneous with a conference, and how its content might
change in the transformation from live event to publication.</p>
<p>Together with participating students, we will set up a temporary
workspace (virtual and physical) from where we can respond to themes
brought up in the conference. As a point of departure, we will bring
with us some of our favourite anecdotes about the creation, production
and distribution of 'engineered' typography. During the workshop we
would like to gather a collection of stories and tales that interrogate
the practice of norms, formats and supports. Performative exercises,
experiments, interviews and visual comments will be gathered in small
publications, launched every conference day.</p>
<p>with:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Pierre Huyghebaert (BE; typographer, designer, cartographer)
</li>
<li>
Yi Jiang (BE/CN; designer, illustrator)
</li>
<li>
Ivan Monroy Lopez (NL/MEX; mathematician, programmer, writer)
</li>
<li>
Femke Snelting (BE/NL; designer, artist)
</li>
<li>
Pierre Marchand (FR; programmer, typographer)
</li>
<li>
Harrisson (BE/FR; designer)
</li>
<li>
Ludivine Loiseau (BE/FR; typographer, designer)
</li>
<li>
Nicolas Malevé (ES/BE; programmer, data activist)
</li>Open Revival2009-02-23T21:55:00+01:002009-02-23T21:55:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-02-23:/type/open-revival.html<p><img alt="stephenson-blake_original_scan1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1958" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/stephenson-blake_original_scan1.jpg" title="stephenson-blake_original_scan1"></p>
<p>"<em>With the written word an absolute fundamental component of daily
communication, typography and fonts are vital to providing aesthetic
harmony and legibility to our textual works. There are thousands of
fonts available, of which only a small number are useful or any good for
setting vast quantities of text, and …</em></p><p><img alt="stephenson-blake_original_scan1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1958" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/stephenson-blake_original_scan1.jpg" title="stephenson-blake_original_scan1"></p>
<p>"<em>With the written word an absolute fundamental component of daily
communication, typography and fonts are vital to providing aesthetic
harmony and legibility to our textual works. There are thousands of
fonts available, of which only a small number are useful or any good for
setting vast quantities of text, and of which an even smaller number are
available to be freely distributed and shared.</em>"</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/">The Open Baskerville project</a></strong>
is an attempt to collaboratively re-create a high quality revival of
Baskerville, ultimately available under an Open Font License or GPL. The
project has an issue tracker and all font source files are available via
a repository. You can add a missing glyph or adjust the kerning; the
site at <a href="http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/">http://klepas.org/openbaskerville/</a> explains in detail how this
works, and why the initiators ended up using the 1913 Stephenson, Blake
specimen. A suivre!</p>
<p><small>Thanks <a href="http://nitrofurano.linuxkafe.com/">nitrofurano</a> for
reminding us :-)</small></p>Free, Libre and Open Source design schools2009-02-13T16:12:00+01:002009-02-13T16:12:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-02-13:/education/free-libre-and-open-source-design-schools.html<p>Parsons school of design teaches webdesign for and with open source
software. Students learn to work with indexhibit and wordpress asking
questions such as: How do we learn and how can we teach through
interface? What is the role of design in the open source world? And how
can we …</p><p>Parsons school of design teaches webdesign for and with open source
software. Students learn to work with indexhibit and wordpress asking
questions such as: How do we learn and how can we teach through
interface? What is the role of design in the open source world? And how
can we give back to this new collaborative movement?</p>
<p>On the day he was named as president of RISD, John Maeda launched an
internal blog on which everyone there can talk openly to him about the
school. Maeda addressed the moral responsibility of designers. He
stressed the importance of transparency in design, and of extending the
participatory "open source" development process now popular in software
design to other sectors. He maintained that although keeping secrets
creates the illusion of power, if nobody knows you have a secret, its
value is worthless.</p>Edit: Norms, formats and supports2009-01-25T14:45:00+01:002009-01-25T14:45:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-01-25:/live/norms-formats-and-supports.html<h3>5 to 7 March, Bordeaux</h3>
<p>We're preparing a journey to Bordeaux, France where OSP will contribute
to the conference <strong><a href="http://www.rosab.net/edit">Edit: Norms, formats and
supports</a></strong> with a workshop and a lecture.</p>
<p><img alt="edit" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/edit.jpg" title="edit">From the conference description:</p>
<p>"<em>Signs and pictograms which organize the flow of movement in cities and
towns according to graphic …</em></p><h3>5 to 7 March, Bordeaux</h3>
<p>We're preparing a journey to Bordeaux, France where OSP will contribute
to the conference <strong><a href="http://www.rosab.net/edit">Edit: Norms, formats and
supports</a></strong> with a workshop and a lecture.</p>
<p><img alt="edit" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/edit.jpg" title="edit">From the conference description:</p>
<p>"<em>Signs and pictograms which organize the flow of movement in cities and
towns according to graphic “pie charts” and other diagrams, which serve
to guide political decisions and economic diagnoses – a multitude of
visual norms which are ignored and “invisible” and have been chosen by
some unknown person at some arbitrary time – control and direct our
daily lives.<br>
Only when new supports appear (on internet in particular) is our
attention drawn to this world of norms and codes which generally remain
unquestioned. Why?"<br>
</em></p>
<p>Other participants include: Ruedi Baur, Bruno Latour, Edward Tufte,
Robin Kinross, Steve Rushton and Norm.</p>
<p>More info at: <a href="http://www.rosab.net/edit">http://www.rosab.net/edit</a></p>Logo Galore2009-01-10T11:49:00+01:002009-01-10T11:49:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2009-01-10:/works/logo-galore.html<p>Lots of work going on the OSP Studio.</p>
<p>Here are few of our recent production:</p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>
<p><strong>Logo for</strong><br>
<strong><a href="http://www.vecteur.be/">Le Vecteur</a></strong></p>
<p>Cultural space in Charleroi city</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur1.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur1.png" title="vecteur1"></a></p>
<p>Button version:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur2.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur2.png" title="vecteur2"></a></p>
<p>This logo that can be adapted in multiform patterns:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur3.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur3.png" title="vecteur3"></a></p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>
<p><strong>Logo for</strong><br>
<strong><a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/fr/">The Fernand Baudin Prize</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pfb.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pfb.png" title="pfb"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/fr/home.php?page=reglement">Submit!!!</a></p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>
<p><strong>Logo for</strong><br>
<strong>Parallellipeda</strong></p>
<p>Parallellipeda will be an exhibition …</p><p>Lots of work going on the OSP Studio.</p>
<p>Here are few of our recent production:</p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>
<p><strong>Logo for</strong><br>
<strong><a href="http://www.vecteur.be/">Le Vecteur</a></strong></p>
<p>Cultural space in Charleroi city</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur1.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur1.png" title="vecteur1"></a></p>
<p>Button version:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur2.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur2.png" title="vecteur2"></a></p>
<p>This logo that can be adapted in multiform patterns:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur3.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vecteur3.png" title="vecteur3"></a></p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>
<p><strong>Logo for</strong><br>
<strong><a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/fr/">The Fernand Baudin Prize</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pfb.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pfb.png" title="pfb"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be/fr/home.php?page=reglement">Submit!!!</a></p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>
<p><strong>Logo for</strong><br>
<strong>Parallellipeda</strong></p>
<p>Parallellipeda will be an exhibition on Art and Science, which will
occur in Leuven next year, curated by <a href="http://www.edprojects.be/">Edith
Doove</a>,
<a href="http://www.edprojects.be/">ed.project</a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logoparallelli.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logoparallelli.png" title="logoparallelli"></a></p>
<p>For that, we developped an abstract font that creates 3D "cubic"
patterns:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logoparallelli_how.png"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1649" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/logoparallelli_how.png" title="logoparallelli_how"></a></p>
<p>A second abstract font is under construction.</p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =</p>The Official Scribus Manual2008-12-29T23:52:00+01:002008-12-29T23:52:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-12-29:/news/the-official-scribus-manual.html<p><a href="http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cover.png" title="cover"></a>Just out and
hopefully in the post soon: The Official Scribus Manual! For less than
30 euros, we ordered ourselves 438 pages of printed documentation,
examples and other invaluable info. And at least €12 from each copy goes
towards the Scribus project.</p>
<p>Get yours here:<br>
<a href="http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/">http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1 …</a></p><p><a href="http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cover.png" title="cover"></a>Just out and
hopefully in the post soon: The Official Scribus Manual! For less than
30 euros, we ordered ourselves 438 pages of printed documentation,
examples and other invaluable info. And at least €12 from each copy goes
towards the Scribus project.</p>
<p>Get yours here:<br>
<a href="http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/">http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/</a></p>
<div class="clear">
</div>Views from the kitchen2008-11-18T12:53:00+01:002008-11-18T12:53:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-11-18:/live/views-from-the-kitchen.html<p><a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/write12.jpeg"></a></p>
<p><strong>Recorded in <a href="http://fo.am/open_kitchen">FoAM's Open Kitchen</a>, 15
November 2008.</strong></p>
<p>Sounds (raw!):
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/sound/kitchen">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/sound/kitchen</a><br>
Playlist & credits:
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/conduite.pdf">conduite.pdf</a><br>
Images:<br>
<small>Peter Westenberg:</small>
<a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398</a> <small>(Free
Art License)</small><br>
<small>Alex Davies:</small>
<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/alexdavies/sets/72157609143437321/">http://flickr.com/photos/alexdavies/sets/72157609143437321/</a>
<small>(All rights reserved)</small></p><p><a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/write12.jpeg"></a></p>
<p><strong>Recorded in <a href="http://fo.am/open_kitchen">FoAM's Open Kitchen</a>, 15
November 2008.</strong></p>
<p>Sounds (raw!):
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/sound/kitchen">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/sound/kitchen</a><br>
Playlist & credits:
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/conduite.pdf">conduite.pdf</a><br>
Images:<br>
<small>Peter Westenberg:</small>
<a href="http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398">http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398</a> <small>(Free
Art License)</small><br>
<small>Alex Davies:</small>
<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/alexdavies/sets/72157609143437321/">http://flickr.com/photos/alexdavies/sets/72157609143437321/</a>
<small>(All rights reserved)</small></p>Semiotics of the Kitchen Radio (update)2008-11-12T10:00:00+01:002008-11-12T10:00:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-11-12:/live/semiotics-of-the-kitchen-radio.html<p><strong>Saturday November 15, 15:00</strong> (doors open: 14:30)<br>
Live broadcast from FoAM, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Brussels<br>
Listen on-line: <a href="http://www.constantvzw.be:8000/kitchen.ogg">http://www.constantvzw.be:8000/kitchen.ogg</a><br>
<small>Emission en Français + English</small></p>
<p><strong><em>Studio audience welcome!</em></strong></p>
<p>As part of the ongoing series <a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article395">Verbindingen/Jonctions
11</a>, OSP prepares
a live radio broadcast in the <a href="http://fo.am/open_kitchen">FoAM …</a></p><p><strong>Saturday November 15, 15:00</strong> (doors open: 14:30)<br>
Live broadcast from FoAM, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Brussels<br>
Listen on-line: <a href="http://www.constantvzw.be:8000/kitchen.ogg">http://www.constantvzw.be:8000/kitchen.ogg</a><br>
<small>Emission en Français + English</small></p>
<p><strong><em>Studio audience welcome!</em></strong></p>
<p>As part of the ongoing series <a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article395">Verbindingen/Jonctions
11</a>, OSP prepares
a live radio broadcast in the <a href="http://fo.am/open_kitchen">FoAM Open
Kitchen</a>. Experimenting with the displacement
of multi sensory experiences, we'll think out loud about the preparation
and distribution of food as metaphor, structure, vocabulary and rhythm.</p>
<p><img alt="" height="93" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/knife1.jpg" title="knife1" width="100">
<img alt="" height="93" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cake-logo1.png" title="cake-logo1" width="100">
<img alt="" height="93" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/pppick1.jpg" title="pppick1" width="100">
<img alt="" height="93" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/xxx-cube_cola_land_medlge.jpg" title="xxx-cube_cola_land_medlge" width="100"></p>
<!--more-->
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/conduite.pdf">Download playlist
here</a></p>
<p>Yi Jiang serves us black and green tea with fitting accompaniments while
we listen to: an interview with artist Kate Rich about cooking and
trade, a conversation with Nicolas Malevé about Cake PHP frameworks and
other recipes, a reportage on Colruyt computer systems, Christophe
Piette (R.O.T) playing kitchen sounds, Ivan Monroy Lopez performing his
essay on man pages and manuals, a text-to-speech cookbook, pickles from
Anderlecht, 'Comédie de moeurs' (readings by Rachelle Sassi) and of
course a mouthwatering playlist.</p>
<p><small>Martha Rosler, <em>Semiotics of the Kitchen</em>, 7" (1975), CakePHP
logo, Pickles et Frères, Pickles from Anderlecht (2008), Kate Rich &
Kayle Brandon, <em>Cube-Cola Poster Land</em> (2006)</small></p>Designing with LaTeX2008-10-28T09:28:00+01:002008-10-28T09:28:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-10-28:/works/designing-with-latex.html<p><strong>Designing with TeX: episode I</strong></p>
<p><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vj101.jpg" title="vj101">OSP is currently working on a book containing
essays, interviews and images following from the Constant
festival/seminar <a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?rubrique46"><strong>Tracks in electronic
fields</strong></a> and we
are laying it out in <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html">LaTeX</a>!</p>
<p>LaTeX is a tool developed in the context of academic publishing,
specifically for technical or …</p><p><strong>Designing with TeX: episode I</strong></p>
<p><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/vj101.jpg" title="vj101">OSP is currently working on a book containing
essays, interviews and images following from the Constant
festival/seminar <a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?rubrique46"><strong>Tracks in electronic
fields</strong></a> and we
are laying it out in <a href="http://www.latex-project.org/intro.html">LaTeX</a>!</p>
<p>LaTeX is a tool developed in the context of academic publishing,
specifically for technical or scientific documents. It combines markup à
la CSS with powerful algorithms automatizing widow / orphan control and
intelligent image placement.</p>
<p>We've grown more and more interested in LaTeX because it is specifically
developed for typographically sane paper publications, and as far as you
can get from regular canvas-based typesetting. We are also curious to
experience from up close the sophisticated typographic system developed
by <a href="http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/">Donald Knuth</a>.<br>
<img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/fetchphp.png" title="fetchphp"><br>
How will we be able to design with LaTeX? Will we need to change our
workflow? Space for experiment and playing around? Can we use the design
patterns built in to the tool, in another context? Will the book
'look-and-feel' like a scientific publication in the end?</p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
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<blockquote>
<p><em>There are several reasons to want to know the definitions of LaTeX
commands: from the simplest “idle curiosity”, to the pressing need to
patch something to make it “work the way you want it”. None of these
are pure motives, but knowledge and expertise seldom arrive through
the purest of motives.</em><br>
<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ltxcmds"><small>http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ltxcmds</small></a></p>
<p><em>Installing fonts in LaTEX has the name of being a very hard task to
accomplish. But it is nothing more than following instructions.
However, the problem is that, first, the proper instructions have to be
found and, second, the instructions then have to be read and
understood.<br>
<a href="http://www.ntg.nl/maps/29/13.pdf"><small>http://www.ntg.nl/maps/29/13.pdf</small></a></em></p>
</blockquote>
<p>
<center>
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</center>
</p>
<p>Ivan and Pierre are the OSP's to take the first plunge. Ivan has <code>tetex</code>
installed on his Gentoo system, and Pierre <code>texlive</code> on Ubuntu. Getting
the Belgian-French Azerty keyboard working was not easy, and also
installing other fonts than the default took some time. But once done,
they are quickly producing those typical academic standard publications
from OpenOffice documents, though this time with quite a different kind
of content.</p>
<p>The book is planned to come out before the end of this years so we will
report back with more concrete design samples soon.</p>New Arrival2008-10-23T09:42:00+02:002008-10-23T09:42:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-10-23:/works/new-arrival.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_0857.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1155" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_0857.jpg" title="img_0857"></a></p>
<p>Just arrived from the printer: <em>Routes + Routines</em>, a booklet designed
by OSP's Yi Jiang and Ludivine Loiseau documenting Peter Westenberg's
<em><a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article532">Hasseltse
Netwerkwandelingen</a></em>.</p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_0857.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1155" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_0857.jpg" title="img_0857"></a></p>
<p>Just arrived from the printer: <em>Routes + Routines</em>, a booklet designed
by OSP's Yi Jiang and Ludivine Loiseau documenting Peter Westenberg's
<em><a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article532">Hasseltse
Netwerkwandelingen</a></em>.</p>Tonight: SHMN (update)2008-10-22T09:23:00+02:002008-10-22T09:23:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-10-22:/live/ce-soir-tonight-vanavond-shmn.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/map"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1236" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/screenshot.png" title="software history"></a></p>
<p>The OSP's have gathered around their respective working tables in
Brussels and Barcelona, to prepare <strong>Software History Mapping Night</strong>,
tonight from 20:30 - 22:00 (GMT+1).</p>
<p>For this occasion, Nicolas has created a rudimentary, quick, lo-tech
collaborative mapping tool:<br>
<a href="http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map">http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/sandbox">http://www.ospublish.constantvzw …</a></p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/map"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1236" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/screenshot.png" title="software history"></a></p>
<p>The OSP's have gathered around their respective working tables in
Brussels and Barcelona, to prepare <strong>Software History Mapping Night</strong>,
tonight from 20:30 - 22:00 (GMT+1).</p>
<p>For this occasion, Nicolas has created a rudimentary, quick, lo-tech
collaborative mapping tool:<br>
<a href="http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map">http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map</a><br>
<a href="http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/sandbox">http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/sandbox</a> (crazy layers!)*</p>
<!--more-->
<p>In a SVG compliant browser (Firefox works but Opera is more stable),
this tool displays the SVG files that have been uploaded to
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/svg">ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/svg</a>.
It does this in order of upload, and allows you to navigate layer by
layer!</p>
<p>We are drawing our map layers in Inkscape on A3 size, landscape (which
is interpreted as 1488.19 x 1052.36 pixels for some reason).<br>
If you want to add a layer yourself, be sure to not flow text in a box
(will result in a black rectangle). Select <em>text>unflow</em> in Inkscape.
You'll also need to use webfonts (times, arial, georgia, verdana,
courier etc.)</p>
<p>To add files: upload them to map/svg (or to test use: map/sandbox/svg).
Use this ftp info:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><code>server: ospublish.constantvzw.org username: ospublish_map login: softhistmap</code></p>
</blockquote>
<p>(The ftp access has now been disabled; if you want to contribute:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?page_id=241">e-mail us</a>!)</p>
<p>For a webcam view on our working table, view:<br>
<a href="http://www.giss.tv:8000/history">http://www.giss.tv:8000/history.ogg</a><br>
Sorry, there is no sound.</p>
<p>If you need help or want to stop by to say hello, we're all here:<br>
<irc://freenode/softwarehistory></p>
<p>OSP is looking forward to your layers!</p>
<p>*<small>More about what, how and why <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=1182">in this
post</a>.</small></p>Software history mapping night2008-10-13T08:59:00+02:002008-10-13T08:59:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-10-13:/live/software-history-mapping-night.html<h3>Wednesday 22 October 20:30-22:00</h3>
<p><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/map1.jpg" title="map">In
a first attempt to draw a collaborative map of the many different tools
that together define the practice of digital design, OSP attempts to
recollect facts and anecdotes gathered over the last few years.</p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p>At <strong>Software history mapping night</strong> we'll gather around the …</p><h3>Wednesday 22 October 20:30-22:00</h3>
<p><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/map1.jpg" title="map">In
a first attempt to draw a collaborative map of the many different tools
that together define the practice of digital design, OSP attempts to
recollect facts and anecdotes gathered over the last few years.</p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p>At <strong>Software history mapping night</strong> we'll gather around the table to
start a visual cartography of design software.<br>
<!--more--><br>
Fontlab, Fontforge, Pagemaker, Sodipodi or Ghostscript: When did it
start? Who was involved? Where did it connect?</p>
<p>We will live-broadcast the session from a central Brussels location and
if you have stories to tell, facts to add or experiences to share, you
are more than welcome to join the discussion through video stream and/or
chat.</p>
<p>[stream- and chat addresses announced on this site next week]</p>Full exclusive rights in perpetuity2008-10-08T22:38:00+02:002008-10-08T22:38:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-10-08:/news/are-you-willing.html<p><code>Hi, OSP.</code><br>
<code>I found you on Open Font Library. I am building a website containing webmasters resources, and I'd like to have 3 original exclusive fonts that I can give away to members who join my site.</code><br>
<code>I'd like to pay you to create 3 original fonts - are you willing …</code></p><p><code>Hi, OSP.</code><br>
<code>I found you on Open Font Library. I am building a website containing webmasters resources, and I'd like to have 3 original exclusive fonts that I can give away to members who join my site.</code><br>
<code>I'd like to pay you to create 3 original fonts - are you willing?</code><br>
<code>If you have 3 old fonts on your harddrive that you created and have not sold or given away to anyone else yet - then those might work as well.</code><br>
<code>Anyway, email me or call me and let me know if you're interested. I can pay $75 per font. I want full exclusive rights in perpetuity.</code><br>
<code>I'm contacting several different Open Font Library creators with this offer.</code><br>
<code>All the best,</code><br>
<code>xxx xxxxx</code></p>
<hr>
<p>Dear xxx,</p>
<p>I don't think you got the point.</p>
<p>Our work, and the idea behind the Open Font Library project, is exactly
the opposite of making money through selling "exclusive rights in
perpetuity". We think our fonts are worth more than the \$75 you are
prepared to pay, so we create *Free Fonts* because we think that it is
more valuable to share them with others and have them used, developed
and distributed by everyone, anywhere, for every occasion. You could
give them away to your members too, if you'd like to.</p>
<p>Good luck with your website!</p>
<p>OSP</p>Read Feeds2008-07-13T10:02:00+02:002008-07-13T10:02:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-07-13:/news/feed-readers.html<p><strong>Planet Open Fonts</strong><br>
"<em>Planet Open Fonts is a window into the lives and work of people
forming the open font community</em>" writes Nicolas Spalinger in the
editorial of this very useful aggregration page, and OSP is proud to be
included: <a href="http://planet.open-fonts.org/">http://planet.open-fonts.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Create @ f.d.o.</strong><br>
Another useful …</p><p><strong>Planet Open Fonts</strong><br>
"<em>Planet Open Fonts is a window into the lives and work of people
forming the open font community</em>" writes Nicolas Spalinger in the
editorial of this very useful aggregration page, and OSP is proud to be
included: <a href="http://planet.open-fonts.org/">http://planet.open-fonts.org/</a></p>
<p><strong>Create @ f.d.o.</strong><br>
Another useful collection of feeds is at
<a href="http://create.freedesktop.org/">http://create.freedesktop.org/</a> bringing news from projects connected
to the Free Desktop organisation, "<em>working on interoperability and
shared technology for X Window System desktops; a</em> collaboration zone
<em>where ideas and code are tossed around, and de facto specifications are
encouraged</em>".</p>500 (printed!)2008-07-05T14:59:00+02:002008-07-05T14:59:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-07-05:/works/500-printed.html<p><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/pzi-catalogue/large/822-p1020288.JPG"><br>
<small>500 unique books installed in <a href="http://wormweb.nl">Worm</a>,
Rotterdam.<br>
Giant pixel image by Gordo Savicic and Danja Vassiliev.</small></p>
<p>More images: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=23">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=23</a></p><p><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/pzi-catalogue/large/822-p1020288.JPG"><br>
<small>500 unique books installed in <a href="http://wormweb.nl">Worm</a>,
Rotterdam.<br>
Giant pixel image by Gordo Savicic and Danja Vassiliev.</small></p>
<p>More images: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=23">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=23</a></p>500 (continued)2008-06-30T14:00:00+02:002008-06-30T14:00:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-06-30:/news/500-continued.html<p>For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter
API in a printed job and a catalogue for the <a href="http://www.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=1385">Piet Zwart Institute's
Media design graduation show</a>
formed the perfect excuse.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=802"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/take-as-much-as-you-want/large/80-051-p1020818.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=803"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/pzi-catalogue/large/803-p1020163.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=804"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/pzi-catalogue/large/804-p1020167.JPG"></a><br>
<!--more--><br>
<a href="http://www.metamute.org/">Mute</a>'s Simon Worthington connected us with
<a href="http://website.identic.be/">Identic</a>, a digital printer based in
Brussels. They can print …</p><p>For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter
API in a printed job and a catalogue for the <a href="http://www.wormweb.nl/agenda.php?id=1385">Piet Zwart Institute's
Media design graduation show</a>
formed the perfect excuse.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=802"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/public-appearance/take-as-much-as-you-want/large/80-051-p1020818.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=803"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/pzi-catalogue/large/803-p1020163.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=804"><img alt="" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/pzi-catalogue/large/804-p1020167.JPG"></a><br>
<!--more--><br>
<a href="http://www.metamute.org/">Mute</a>'s Simon Worthington connected us with
<a href="http://website.identic.be/">Identic</a>, a digital printer based in
Brussels. They can print as many different files as you want without
additional costs, so we asked <a href="http://www.automatist.org">Michael</a> to
help us with a Python script (modifications by Nicolas, Ivan and Femke)
which runs from inside Scribus, iterating through folders and files
generating a different book cover each time.</p>
<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/material.jpg"></p>
<p>Each of the participants in the exhibition has provided us with 500
elements ranging from a series of unique IP addresses, a few lines of
Python that alternate letter sizes, a game icon split into 500 giant
three pixel images, 500 lines of a Wikipedia entry on Berthold Brecht,
stills from a performance video and titles generated in a different font
each time. According to the design rules contained in the script,
Scribus places, colors and sizes each element before automatically
exporting the resulting cover as a PDF.</p>
<p>OK, we did not manage to auto-place svg documents, which we really
really really regret... and our first tests produced 500 super heavy
pdf's that managed to crash the Adobe preflight checker at the printer.</p>
<p>After a bit of testing and trying with the nice people at Identic, we
found that we were embedding a corrupt font in the autogenerated pdf and
this caused the crazy file size. When exporting the PDF manually from
Scribus, Scribus detected the problem and outlined the font
automatically but the scripter-API obviously does not offer such
sophisticated features. So, we simply deleted the troublemaker and the
files Scribus produced after that, are much lighter and most of all:
they print!</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/covers.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/covers.jpg"></a></p>
<p>With the help of <a href="http://oep-h.com/">Pierre Marchand</a> and other helpful
people on the Scribus IRC channel, we surpressed our panic about the
initial slowdown of the process, and after 24 hours of continuous
tireless work (1440 minutes / 500 pdf's = 2.88 minutes per pdf. Not so
bad, as Craig Bradney pointed out on the mailinglist), Scribus produced
500 different pdf's, ready to print.</p>
<p>We can't wait to see the final result!</p>
<p>Scripts and material for testing:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/pzicatalogue">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/pzicatalogue</a></p>
<p>Read the discussion on the Scribus mailing list:<br>
<a href="http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-June/029400.html%20">http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2008-June/029400.html</a></p>Quelques surprises polonaises2008-06-18T14:10:00+02:002008-06-18T14:10:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-06-18:/news/quelques-surprises-polonaises.html<p><code>_ _</code><br>
<code>| | o | | o</code><br>
<code>_ __ | | , | | _ ,_ _ _ _|_</code><br>
<code>|/ \_/ \_|/ | / \_|/ \ |/ \_/ | | / |/ | |</code><br>
<code>|__/ \__/ |__/|_/ \/ | |_/ |__/ |_/|_/ | |_/|_/</code><br>
<code>/| /|</code><br>
<code>\| \|</code><br>
<code>_ __, ,_ _|_</code><br>
<code>|/ \_/ | / | | | |</code><br>
<code>|__/ \_/|_/ |_/|_/ \_/|/</code><br>
<code>/| /|</code><br>
<code>\| \|</code></p>
<h3>vendredi le 27 juin 2008</h3>
<p>OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer …</p><p><code>_ _</code><br>
<code>| | o | | o</code><br>
<code>_ __ | | , | | _ ,_ _ _ _|_</code><br>
<code>|/ \_/ \_|/ | / \_|/ \ |/ \_/ | | / |/ | |</code><br>
<code>|__/ \__/ |__/|_/ \/ | |_/ |__/ |_/|_/ | |_/|_/</code><br>
<code>/| /|</code><br>
<code>\| \|</code><br>
<code>_ __, ,_ _|_</code><br>
<code>|/ \_/ | / | | | |</code><br>
<code>|__/ \_/|_/ |_/|_/ \_/|/</code><br>
<code>/| /|</code><br>
<code>\| \|</code></p>
<h3>vendredi le 27 juin 2008</h3>
<p>OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de sa première fonte
en licence libre: la
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=471">NotCourier-sans</a>.</p>
<p>Nous serions ravis de vous retrouver autour d'un live lay-out, des
Jiaozi/Pierogi et de quelques surprises (polonaises) lors de cette Print
Party qui aura lieu à:</p>
<p><strong>La Compilothèque</strong><br>
vendredi le 27 juin 2008 à 20h00<br>
50, Quai des Péniches,<br>
1000 Bruxelles<br>
(Metro Yser)</p>Kanttekeningen / Sidemarks2008-06-09T15:08:00+02:002008-06-09T15:08:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-06-09:/works/kanttekeningen-sidemarks.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/kanttekeningen/kanttekeningen_bij_databank.pdf"><img alt="kanttekeningen" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/kanttekeningen_th.jpg"></a><em>Kanttekeningen
bij een databank</em> documents our investigation into the inner workings of
the database of BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and
media art.</p>
<p>To visualise the data stored, we wrote a plugin in Inkscape, manually
generated graphs and scripted .svg - you can read everything about what
we found …</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/kanttekeningen/kanttekeningen_bij_databank.pdf"><img alt="kanttekeningen" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/kanttekeningen_th.jpg"></a><em>Kanttekeningen
bij een databank</em> documents our investigation into the inner workings of
the database of BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and
media art.</p>
<p>To visualise the data stored, we wrote a plugin in Inkscape, manually
generated graphs and scripted .svg - you can read everything about what
we found and how we worked in <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/kanttekeningen/kanttekeningen_bij_databank.pdf">16
pages</a>
that are inserted in the back of the <a href="http://www.bamart.be/pages/detail/en/1566/">CROSS-over
book</a> (in Dutch).</p>
<p>All documents, sketches, code etc. are gathered here:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/kanttekeningen">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/kanttekeningen</a>.</p>Polish Print Party2008-06-08T22:37:00+02:002008-06-08T22:37:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-06-08:/news/polish-print-party.html<p><img alt="Jiaozi" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/jiaozi11.jpg">June
27, ~~19:00~~ 20:00 @ Compilothèque*<br>
<strong>Polish Print Party</strong><br>
With: launch of NotCourier-sans, OSP FAQ, live lay-out, Jiaozi/Pierogi
and more.</p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p><small>*50 Quai des Péniches 1000 Brussels</small></p><p><img alt="Jiaozi" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/jiaozi11.jpg">June
27, ~~19:00~~ 20:00 @ Compilothèque*<br>
<strong>Polish Print Party</strong><br>
With: launch of NotCourier-sans, OSP FAQ, live lay-out, Jiaozi/Pierogi
and more.</p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p><small>*50 Quai des Péniches 1000 Brussels</small></p>Cross-over2008-06-02T20:08:00+02:002008-06-02T20:08:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-06-02:/works/cross-over.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=21">image/index.php?level=album&id=21</a></p>
<p>Hot off the press: <strong><a href="http://www.bamart.be/pages/detail/nl/2102">CROSS-over, Kunst, media en technologie in
Vlaanderen</a></strong>.<br>
Published by BAM / Lannoo and designed by OSP :-)</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=21">image/index.php?level=album&id=21</a></p>
<p>Hot off the press: <strong><a href="http://www.bamart.be/pages/detail/nl/2102">CROSS-over, Kunst, media en technologie in
Vlaanderen</a></strong>.<br>
Published by BAM / Lannoo and designed by OSP :-)</p>What’s the thinking here?2008-05-30T17:00:00+02:002008-05-30T17:00:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-30:/conversations/what%e2%80%99s-the-thinking-here.html<p>Matthew Fuller: <em>One of the things that is notable about OSP is that the
problems that you encounter are also described, appearing on your blog.
This is something unusual for a company attempting to produce the
impression of an efficient ’solution’. Obviously the readers of the blog
only get a …</em></p><p>Matthew Fuller: <em>One of the things that is notable about OSP is that the
problems that you encounter are also described, appearing on your blog.
This is something unusual for a company attempting to produce the
impression of an efficient ’solution’. Obviously the readers of the blog
only get a formatted version of this, as a performed work? What’s the
thinking here?</em></p>
<p>Read the interview:
<a href="http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/open-source-publishing-interview-with-femke-snelting/">http://www.spc.org/fuller/interviews/open-source-publishing-interview</a></p>
<p><small>Matthew Fuller writes about software culture and has a contagious
interest in technologies that exceed easy fit solutions. He is David Gee
reader in Digital Media at the Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths
College, University of London, edited <em>Software Studies, A Lexicon</em> (MIT
Press, 2007), wrote <em>Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and
Technoculture</em> (MIT Press, 2005) and <em>Behind the Blip: Essays on the
Culture of Software</em>.</small></p>
<p><small>Many of his essays are available on line:
<a href="http://www.spc.org/fuller/">http://www.spc.org/fuller</a></small></p>5002008-05-29T20:36:00+02:002008-05-29T20:36:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-29:/works/500.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/500.png"><img alt="500" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/500.jpg"></a><br>
With 9 Media Design students graduating this summer from the <a href="http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/">Piet Zwart
Institute</a>, OSP's Harrisson is busy
producing 500 different books - all in Free Software of course. The
books contain essays, images, project documentation and typographic
experiments and will be printed using the <a href="http://www.openmute.org/pod/?PAGE=podservices#Printondemand">Mute POD
system</a>.</p>
<p><small>Image: Inkscape <em>Clone Tile …</em></small></p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/500.png"><img alt="500" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/500.jpg"></a><br>
With 9 Media Design students graduating this summer from the <a href="http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/mdma/">Piet Zwart
Institute</a>, OSP's Harrisson is busy
producing 500 different books - all in Free Software of course. The
books contain essays, images, project documentation and typographic
experiments and will be printed using the <a href="http://www.openmute.org/pod/?PAGE=podservices#Printondemand">Mute POD
system</a>.</p>
<p><small>Image: Inkscape <em>Clone Tile Color Randomization</em> plus <em>Align and
Distribute: Randomize Positions</em></small></p>A postcard from LGM 20082008-05-10T16:12:00+02:002008-05-10T16:12:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-10:/live/a-postcard-from-lgm-2008.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=666"><img alt="yi" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw/large/666-a-dsc02271.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=679"><img alt="talk" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw/large/679-p5080070.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=689"><img alt="dave" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw/large/689-p1050928.JPG"></a></p>
<p>The end of our participation in the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 is in
sight...</p>
<p>Over the last few days we have seen many intriguing, surprising and
interesting talks; we discovered new tools, rediscovered 'old' ones and
made connections with developers, users and standards-officials -- LGM
has been again an inspiring adventure …</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=666"><img alt="yi" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw/large/666-a-dsc02271.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=679"><img alt="talk" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw/large/679-p5080070.JPG"></a>
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=picture&id=689"><img alt="dave" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/plog-content/thumbs/snapshots/crossing-lgm-wroc__aw/large/689-p1050928.JPG"></a></p>
<p>The end of our participation in the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 is in
sight...</p>
<p>Over the last few days we have seen many intriguing, surprising and
interesting talks; we discovered new tools, rediscovered 'old' ones and
made connections with developers, users and standards-officials -- LGM
has been again an inspiring adventure.</p>
<p>We interviewed <a href="http://understandinglimited.com">Dave Crossland</a> about
the history of font editing software, <a href="http://home.sus.mcgill.ca/~moyogo/">Denis
Jacquerye</a> about internationalized
typography, <a href="http://people.xiph.org/~giles/">Ralph Giles</a> about the
story of Nimbus and Courrier, Michael Terry about
<a href="http://www.ingimp.org/">Ingimp</a> and usability development in Open
Source and <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/chris/">Chris Lilley</a> about W3C
standardizing processes and the way it facilitates (or not) interaction
between developers and designers. All this we will make available at
some point on this weblog.</p>
<p>Apart from that, <a href="http://www.le-radar.com/">Cedric Gémy</a> has initiated a
Free Software user group for graphic design professionals (most
certainly needs a better name), we started packaging our first open font
for distribution via the <a href="http://openfontlibrary.org/">Open Font
Library</a> and thought of dozens of new
projects to work on.</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=19">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=19</a></p>
<p>It will take us days, weeks, months to process all this material so
please be patient :-) In the mean time, a big thank you to everyone and
enjoy the growing collection of images as we upload.</p>Typeface in the making: W Drogę2008-05-07T14:16:00+02:002008-05-07T14:16:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-07:/education/typeface-in-the-making-w-droge.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=18">image/index.php?level=album&id=18</a></p>
<p>David Bargenda's photos:
<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/opt-art/tags/opensourcepublishing/">http://flickr.com/photos/opt-art/tags/opensourcepublishing/<br>
</a></p>
<p>With a group of 20 courageous participants and the help of open type
activists Dave Crossland, Alexandre Prokoudine and Nicolas Spalinger we
are using Inkscape, Gimp and FontForge to produce a typeface in …</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/index.php?level=album&id=18">image/index.php?level=album&id=18</a></p>
<p>David Bargenda's photos:
<a href="http://flickr.com/photos/opt-art/tags/opensourcepublishing/">http://flickr.com/photos/opt-art/tags/opensourcepublishing/<br>
</a></p>
<p>With a group of 20 courageous participants and the help of open type
activists Dave Crossland, Alexandre Prokoudine and Nicolas Spalinger we
are using Inkscape, Gimp and FontForge to produce a typeface in a day.
We have named it <strong>W Drogę</strong> (On Our Way, En Route in Polish) and it
should be available for download ~~by the end of the day~~ ~~tomorrow~~
soon!</p>
<p>Workshop description: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=454">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=454</a></p>Print party: OSP Cover Band2008-05-05T20:09:00+02:002008-05-05T20:09:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-05:/live/osp-cover-band.html<p>We are <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=443">preparing</a> our print
party for tomorrow... Introducing <strong><em>Not Courier Sans</em></strong> (a re-take
font), serving <strong><em>Original Covers</em></strong> (a playlist specially prepared for
you) plus homemade <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes/jiaozi_ravioli_pierogi.htm"><strong><em>jiaozi, ravioli and/or
pierogi</em></strong></a>.
Join us at 19:00 in <a href="http://www.mleczarnia.wroclaw.pl/">Café
Mleczarnia</a>, Wroclaw (Poland)!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/jiaozi1.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-469" height="94" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/jiaozi-extract.jpg" title="jiaozi-extract" width="400"></a></p><p>We are <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=443">preparing</a> our print
party for tomorrow... Introducing <strong><em>Not Courier Sans</em></strong> (a re-take
font), serving <strong><em>Original Covers</em></strong> (a playlist specially prepared for
you) plus homemade <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes/jiaozi_ravioli_pierogi.htm"><strong><em>jiaozi, ravioli and/or
pierogi</em></strong></a>.
Join us at 19:00 in <a href="http://www.mleczarnia.wroclaw.pl/">Café
Mleczarnia</a>, Wroclaw (Poland)!<br>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/jiaozi1.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-469" height="94" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/jiaozi-extract.jpg" title="jiaozi-extract" width="400"></a></p>Looking for F, Q, X and H2008-05-05T08:15:00+02:002008-05-05T08:15:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-05:/type/looking-for-f-q-and-h.html<p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-464" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/slubice.jpg" title="slubice"><br>
On our way from Berlin to Wroclaw, OSP managed to photograph almost
every letter in the Polish roadsignage alphabet. We are preparing for
the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=454">Local Universal</a> workshop
and still looking for <strong>F</strong>, <strong>Q</strong>, <strong>X</strong> and <strong>H</strong> (capital + lower
case). If you happen to come across one, please send us a …</p><p><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-464" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/slubice.jpg" title="slubice"><br>
On our way from Berlin to Wroclaw, OSP managed to photograph almost
every letter in the Polish roadsignage alphabet. We are preparing for
the <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=454">Local Universal</a> workshop
and still looking for <strong>F</strong>, <strong>Q</strong>, <strong>X</strong> and <strong>H</strong> (capital + lower
case). If you happen to come across one, please send us a picture?</p>En route2008-05-04T07:25:00+02:002008-05-04T07:25:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-05-04:/live/en-route.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=19"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-462" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/p1010579.jpg" title="p1010579"></a></p>
<p>OSP on it's way!</p>
<!--more-->
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=17"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-462" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/p1010592.jpg" title="p1010592"></a></p>
<p>Bruxelles - Berlin</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=17"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-462" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/p1010603.jpg" title="p1010603"></a></p>
<p>Staying over at <a href="http://negrelli.de/">Alexander Negrelli</a>'s flat</p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=19"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-462" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/p1010579.jpg" title="p1010579"></a></p>
<p>OSP on it's way!</p>
<!--more-->
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=17"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-462" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/p1010592.jpg" title="p1010592"></a></p>
<p>Bruxelles - Berlin</p>
<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=17"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-462" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/p1010603.jpg" title="p1010603"></a></p>
<p>Staying over at <a href="http://negrelli.de/">Alexander Negrelli</a>'s flat</p>Local Universal2008-04-29T15:21:00+02:002008-04-29T15:21:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-04-29:/education/local-universal.html<p><strong>Wednesday May 7 in Wrocław, Poland</strong></p>
<p>Running up to the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/">Libre Graphics meeting
2008</a>, OSP invites designers,
programmers and typographers to work on a collaborative design project.
Inspired by modular systems for <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=11">road sign
lettering</a>,
and a long interest in fonts designed by engineers, we would like to
work with …</p><p><strong>Wednesday May 7 in Wrocław, Poland</strong></p>
<p>Running up to the <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/">Libre Graphics meeting
2008</a>, OSP invites designers,
programmers and typographers to work on a collaborative design project.
Inspired by modular systems for <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=11">road sign
lettering</a>,
and a long interest in fonts designed by engineers, we would like to
work with you on an impossible project: <strong>to design a whole alphabet in
a day</strong>.</p>
<!--more-->
<p>How do you 'make things' across styles, tastes and traditions? Does it
always mean to average differences or a sampling of parts? How do you
design through translation? What will be lost and what could be gained?</p>
<p>Depending on the needs and interests of the participants, we form small
working groups that are each joined by one or more OSP members. For
inspiration or as actual source material, we will photograph as many
characters as possible on our roadtrip from Brussels to Wroclaw. Each of
the groups adopts a few letters to experiment with, using free software
tools (Gimp, Inkscape, Fontforge + some Spiro flavor...) to draw,
digitize and transform. At the end of the day we will gather all glyphs
into one font and festively release the collection under an Open Font
License.</p>
<p><strong>With</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Pierre Huyghebaert (BEL): typographer, designer</li>
<li>Harrisson (FRA/BEL): typographer, designer</li>
<li>Yi Liang (CHN/BEL): designer, illustrator</li>
<li>Femke Snelting (NED/BEL): artist, designer</li>
<li>Ivan Monroy Lopez (MEX/NED): programmer, artist</li>
<li>Ludivine Loiseau (FRA/BEL): typographer</li>
<li>Nicolas Malevé (BEL): programmer, data activist</li>
<li>Ricardo Lafuente (POR/NED): designer, programmer</li>
</ul>
<p>Plus the help of: Dave Crossland, Alexandre Prokoudine and Nicolas
Spalinger.</p>
<p><strong>For who</strong><br>
This workshop is for anyone interested in the combination of design,
free software and typography. Computer skills come in handy but if you
are courageous and interested: everything is possible!</p>
<p>Working language: English, with multi-lingual plugins installed</p>
<p><strong>Practical</strong><br>
There is a limited amount of computers available in OPT, but if you have
a laptop with Linux installed, please bring it!<br>
Entrance: free</p>
<p>Wednesday May 7 11:00 - 18:00<br>
Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych (Creative Art Center)<br>
ul. Działkowa 15, 50-538<br>
Wrocław, Poland<br>
<a href="http://www.opt-art.net/">http://www.opt-art.net/</a></p>OSP @ LGM 20082008-04-22T06:39:00+02:002008-04-22T06:39:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-04-22:/education/osp-lgm-2008.html<p><a href="http://www.wroclaw.pl/p/3200/"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/wroclaw1.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lgm2.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.opt-art.net/"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/opt1.jpg"></a><br>
OSP is preparing for a hectic week in Wrocław, Poland (3 t/m 11 May). At
this years <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> we give a one day
workshop in <a href="http://www.opt-art.net/">Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych</a>
(Creative Arts centre), perform a Print Party and present our work. The
LGM
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en&action=program">program</a>
is packed with talks and …</p><p><a href="http://www.wroclaw.pl/p/3200/"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/wroclaw1.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lgm2.jpg"></a><a href="http://www.opt-art.net/"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/opt1.jpg"></a><br>
OSP is preparing for a hectic week in Wrocław, Poland (3 t/m 11 May). At
this years <a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008">Libre Graphics
Meeting</a> we give a one day
workshop in <a href="http://www.opt-art.net/">Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych</a>
(Creative Arts centre), perform a Print Party and present our work. The
LGM
<a href="http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2008/index.php?lang=en&action=program">program</a>
is packed with talks and we'll hopefully record a few more
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?cat=18">interviews</a> as well. The
extended OSP delegation includes: Harrisson, Pierre Huyghebaert, Nicolas
Malevé, Yi Liang, Femke Snelting, Ludivine Loiseau, Ricardo Lafuente and
Ivan Monroy Lopez.</p>In the pipeline2008-04-16T12:22:00+02:002008-04-16T12:22:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-04-16:/works/in-the-pipeline.html<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cover_bam_5_quadripdf.png"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cover_bam_5_quadripdf.png" title="cover_bam_5_quadripdf"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/identiteit.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/identiteit.jpg" title="cover_bam_5_quadripdf"></a></p>
<p>With * new * OSP <a href="http://www.taidangao.org/">Yi Jiang</a> we are
currently working on typography and lay-out for <em>CROSS-over: Kunst,
Media en Design in Vlaanderen</em>, a publication edited by Liesbeth
Huybrechts and published by <a href="http://www.bamart.be/">BAM</a> / Lannoo.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/flowchart.png"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/flowchart.png" title="flowchart"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/brussel.png"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/brussel.png" title="flowchart"></a></p>
<p>The book is layed-out in Scribus and contains various database
visualisations generated in Inkscape (in collaboration with <a href="http://www.automatist.org">Michael …</a></p><p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cover_bam_5_quadripdf.png"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/cover_bam_5_quadripdf.png" title="cover_bam_5_quadripdf"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/identiteit.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/identiteit.jpg" title="cover_bam_5_quadripdf"></a></p>
<p>With * new * OSP <a href="http://www.taidangao.org/">Yi Jiang</a> we are
currently working on typography and lay-out for <em>CROSS-over: Kunst,
Media en Design in Vlaanderen</em>, a publication edited by Liesbeth
Huybrechts and published by <a href="http://www.bamart.be/">BAM</a> / Lannoo.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/flowchart.png"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/flowchart.png" title="flowchart"></a>
<a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/brussel.png"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/brussel.png" title="flowchart"></a></p>
<p>The book is layed-out in Scribus and contains various database
visualisations generated in Inkscape (in collaboration with <a href="http://www.automatist.org">Michael
Murtaugh</a>). It will go to print by the end of
this month.</p>Pavillion du Bonheur Provisoire2008-04-16T00:11:00+02:002008-04-16T00:11:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-04-16:/news/pavillion-du-bonheur-provisoire.html<p>Opening tomorrow!</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_9094.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-435" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_9094.jpg" title="img_9094" width="400"></a></p>
<p>Signage for <a href="http://blog.atomium.be/page/Pavillon-temporaire-du-Bonheur---Paviljoen-van-het-Tijdelijke-Geluk---Pavilion-of-Temporary-Happiness.aspx">The Pavilion of Provisionary
Happiness</a>
by OSP. The font will be released under an open license
<blink><strong>soon</strong></blink>. More images:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=7">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=7</a></p><p>Opening tomorrow!</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_9094.jpg"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-435" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/img_9094.jpg" title="img_9094" width="400"></a></p>
<p>Signage for <a href="http://blog.atomium.be/page/Pavillon-temporaire-du-Bonheur---Paviljoen-van-het-Tijdelijke-Geluk---Pavilion-of-Temporary-Happiness.aspx">The Pavilion of Provisionary
Happiness</a>
by OSP. The font will be released under an open license
<blink><strong>soon</strong></blink>. More images:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=7">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=7</a></p>Quatre/Quarts: multi track Print Party2008-04-13T23:57:00+02:002008-04-13T23:57:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-04-13:/live/quatre-quarts-multi-track-print-party.html<p><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/498-p1010310.JPG"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/494-p1010335.JPG"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/500-img_3235.JPG"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/492-p1010356.JPG"></p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p>more images here:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=13">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=13</a><br>
and here:<br>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/sets/72157604530267258/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/...</a></p>
<!--more-->
<p><strong>Track 1: Narrate</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/narrate.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/narrate.jpg" title="narrate"></a><br>
Pierre guided us through his assorted collection of stories about
engineered fonts.<br>
→ <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=10">Images<br>
</a><br>
<strong>Track 2: Bake</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/ingredients.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/ingredients.jpg" title="ingredients"></a><br>
With the help of Yi, Femke prepared a Quatre Quarts and …</p><p><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/498-p1010310.JPG"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/494-p1010335.JPG"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/500-img_3235.JPG"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/thumbs/public-appearance/quatre-quarts/small/492-p1010356.JPG"></p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p>more images here:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=13">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=13</a><br>
and here:<br>
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/sets/72157604530267258/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/...</a></p>
<!--more-->
<p><strong>Track 1: Narrate</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/narrate.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/narrate.jpg" title="narrate"></a><br>
Pierre guided us through his assorted collection of stories about
engineered fonts.<br>
→ <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=10">Images<br>
</a><br>
<strong>Track 2: Bake</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/ingredients.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/ingredients.jpg" title="ingredients"></a><br>
With the help of Yi, Femke prepared a Quatre Quarts and explained what
chemical processes where going on while mixing and baking.<br>
→ <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes/Quatre%20Quarts.htm">Recipe</a>
(improved formula)<br>
→ <a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/whathappenswhenyoubakeacake.txt">What Happens When You Bake a
Cake?</a></p>
<p><strong>Track 3: Design</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/numbers.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/numbers-300x64.jpg" title="numbers"></a></p>
<p>Harrisson designed 9 numbers in Inkscape and FontForge, based on 4
different elements: a square, a circle, a triangle and a rectangle. Than
he laid out a 16 page booklet in Scribus, and added the Quatre Quart
recipe.<br>
→ <a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/qq.pdf">Download
PDF</a><br>
→ <a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/qq.ttf">Download
Font</a></p>
<p><strong>Track 4: Print</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/book.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/book.jpg" title="book"></a></p>
<p>The finished booklet after commandline imposition + printing.<br>
→ <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=90">19 easy steps to print a
booklet</a> (version française:
voir 'comments')</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lrg-485-p1010402.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/lrg-485-p1010402.jpg" title="lrg-485-p1010402"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/eat.jpg"><img alt="" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/eat.jpg" title="eat"></a></p>
<p>→ <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=413">Ingredient list</a></p>
<p>Many thanks to the ERG tutors who helped us gather materials (cake tins,
whisks, printers, mixing bowls, extension chords...)!</p>11 avril: Quatre/Quarts Print Party à l’ERG2008-04-09T07:52:00+02:002008-04-09T07:52:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-04-09:/live/11042008-44-print-party-a-lerg.html<p>Info: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=407">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=407</a><br>
Recette:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes/Quatre%20Quarts.htm">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes</a></p>
<p><strong>Pour faire une 4/4 Print Party, il faudra:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>2 fours électriques</li>
<li>16 œufs</li>
<li>1 kg de beurre</li>
<li>1 kg de sucre blanc fin</li>
<li>1 kg de farine</li>
<li>3 tabliers</li>
<li>1 raclette en caoutchouc (pour racler les …</li></ul><p>Info: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=407">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=407</a><br>
Recette:
<a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes/Quatre%20Quarts.htm">http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes</a></p>
<p><strong>Pour faire une 4/4 Print Party, il faudra:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>2 fours électriques</li>
<li>16 œufs</li>
<li>1 kg de beurre</li>
<li>1 kg de sucre blanc fin</li>
<li>1 kg de farine</li>
<li>3 tabliers</li>
<li>1 raclette en caoutchouc (pour racler les plats avec facilité)</li>
<li>1 rouleau de papier cuisson</li>
<li>1 pair de ciseaux</li>
<li>2 cuillères à soupe</li>
<li>4 fourchettes</li>
<li>4 spatules en bois</li>
<li>1 mixeur</li>
<li>2 maniques</li>
<li>1 tamis (pour la farine)</li>
<li>2 fouets de cuisine</li>
<li>2 grands saladiers</li>
<li>4 moules à cake identiques (qui rentrent dans les susdits fours)</li>
<li>36 assiettes</li>
<li>36 tasses</li>
<li>36 cuilleres</li>
<li>36 morceaux sucres</li>
<li>4 boilers électriques</li>
<li>400 g de thé noir</li>
<li>1 litre de lait</li>
<li>3 ordinateurs</li>
<li>1 imprimante laser</li>
<li>1000 feuilles A4</li>
<li>1 projecteur avec ses cables de connection</li>
<li>2 grandes tables stables</li>
<li>2 prises électriques</li>
<li>1 rallonge</li>
<li>1 triplette</li>
<li>1 planche à découpe</li>
<li>1 cutter bien affuté</li>
<li>1 agrapheuse</li>
<li>1 bout de carton</li>
</ul>Mixed Sources: Issue Magazine2008-03-13T12:52:00+01:002008-03-13T12:52:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2008-03-13:/live/mixed-sources-issue-magazine.html<p><a href="http://mixedsources.tk/"><img alt="sources.jpg" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/sources.jpg"></a><br>
Issue Magazine launch: <strong>Friday March 21 18:00 - 19:30</strong><br>
Log on via: <a href="http://mixedsources.tk/">http://mixedsources.tk/</a></p>
<p>For the launch of <a href="http://www.issue-magazine.net/">Issue Magazine</a>,
Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Alexandre Leray are hosting an on line round
table with Arie Altena, Jouke Kleerebezem and Harrisson.</p><p><a href="http://mixedsources.tk/"><img alt="sources.jpg" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/sources.jpg"></a><br>
Issue Magazine launch: <strong>Friday March 21 18:00 - 19:30</strong><br>
Log on via: <a href="http://mixedsources.tk/">http://mixedsources.tk/</a></p>
<p>For the launch of <a href="http://www.issue-magazine.net/">Issue Magazine</a>,
Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Alexandre Leray are hosting an on line round
table with Arie Altena, Jouke Kleerebezem and Harrisson.</p>UniConvertor!2007-12-10T21:27:00+01:002007-12-10T21:27:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2007-12-10:/news/uniconvertor.html<p>A late announcement for an ultra useful tool: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=245">Igor
Novikov</a> and <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=245">Valek
Philippov</a> have released
<strong><a href="http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor">UniConvertor</a></strong>,
a universal vector graphics translator. It uses the sK1 engine to
convert one format into another.</p>
<p>With
<a href="http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor">UniConvertor</a></strong>
you can now convert files from: <em>CorelDRAW ver.7-X3
(CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX), Adobe Illustrator …</em></p><p>A late announcement for an ultra useful tool: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=245">Igor
Novikov</a> and <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=245">Valek
Philippov</a> have released
<strong><a href="http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor">UniConvertor</a></strong>,
a universal vector graphics translator. It uses the sK1 engine to
convert one format into another.</p>
<p>With
<a href="http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor">UniConvertor</a></strong>
you can now convert files from: <em>CorelDRAW ver.7-X3
(CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX), Adobe Illustrator up to v. 9 (AI postscript
based), Postscript (PS), Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), Computer
Graphics Metafile (CGM), Windows Metafile (WMF), XFIG, Scalable Vector
Graphics (SVG), Skencil/Sketch/sK1 (SK and SK1), Acorn Draw (AFF)</em>...<br>
into: <em>AI (Postscript based Adobe Illustrator 5.0 format), SVG (Scalable
Vector Graphics), SK (Sketch/Skencil format), SK1 (sK1 format), CGM
(Computer Graphics Metafile), WMF (Windows Metafile)</em>...</p>
<p>Uniconvertor is a commandline tool - after installation you simply type:
<code>$ uniconv drawing.cdr drawing.svg</code><br>
to convert a CorelDraw file to svg for example.</p>
<p>Igor and Valek will keep adding new file formats to this list as they
manage to reverse-engineer them and we'll for sure put it to use.
Thanks!</p>Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 Live2007-11-25T13:15:00+01:002007-11-25T13:15:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2007-11-25:/news/jonctionsverbindingen-10-live.html<p>[All lectures have been archived + will be on line soon!]</p>
<p><del datetime="2007-12-03T15:17:33+00:00">Jonctions/Verbindingen 10
Festival has started! Follow lectures + discussions on line:
<a href="http://www.constantvzw.com/vj10/live">http://www.constantvzw.com/vj10/live</a></p>
<p>OSP selection:</p>
<p>~~<em>Sunday 25/11 | 20:45</em>~~<br>
<a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article140">~~<strong>InfoEnclosure-2.0</strong></a> Dmytri Kleiner~~<br>
<em>Saturday 1/12 | 12:00</em><br>
</a><a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article150"><strong>Open source
software
usability</strong></a>
Görkem Çetin<br>
<em>Saturday …</em></p><p>[All lectures have been archived + will be on line soon!]</p>
<p><del datetime="2007-12-03T15:17:33+00:00">Jonctions/Verbindingen 10
Festival has started! Follow lectures + discussions on line:
<a href="http://www.constantvzw.com/vj10/live">http://www.constantvzw.com/vj10/live</a></p>
<p>OSP selection:</p>
<p>~~<em>Sunday 25/11 | 20:45</em>~~<br>
<a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article140">~~<strong>InfoEnclosure-2.0</strong></a> Dmytri Kleiner~~<br>
<em>Saturday 1/12 | 12:00</em><br>
</a><a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article150"><strong>Open source
software
usability</strong></a>
Görkem Çetin<br>
<em>Saturday 1/12 | 17:00</em><br>
<a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article160"><strong>From centres of calculation to centres of envelopment: intensive
movement in digital signal
processing</strong></a>
Adrian Mackenzie<br>
<em>Saturday 1/12 | 19:00</em><br>
<a href="http://data.constantvzw.org/site/spip.php?article153"><strong>La répétition d’un geste ne rend-elle pas forcément
fou?</strong></a> Inès
Rabadán</p>
<p></del></p>Free Operations / 12007-11-23T17:31:00+01:002007-11-23T17:31:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2007-11-23:/education/free-operations-1.html<p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=5"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/spaghetti.jpg"></a><br>
2 day Free Operations workshop at <a href="http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/">Werkplaats
Typografie</a></p><p><a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=5"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/spaghetti.jpg"></a><br>
2 day Free Operations workshop at <a href="http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org/">Werkplaats
Typografie</a></p>Voilà!2007-11-18T23:37:00+01:002007-11-18T23:37:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2007-11-18:/works/voila.html<p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2037510266_a56784512b.jpg"></p><p><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/2037510266_a56784512b.jpg"></p>To be continued: meeting Dave Crossland2007-11-18T23:13:00+01:002007-11-18T23:13:00+01:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2007-11-18:/conversations/to-be-continued-dave-crossland.html<p><a class="float" href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave1.jpg"></a>
<a class="float" href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave2.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave2.jpg"></a>We
nearly missed our train back to Brussels while meeting Dave Crossland.
At the station we talked about the history of font editing software,
about the 'free font movement' and everything that could become possible
once fonts and font editing software are free. We were also excited
about how (and …</p><p><a class="float" href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave1.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave1.jpg"></a>
<a class="float" href="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave2.jpg"><img alt="" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/dave2.jpg"></a>We
nearly missed our train back to Brussels while meeting Dave Crossland.
At the station we talked about the history of font editing software,
about the 'free font movement' and everything that could become possible
once fonts and font editing software are free. We were also excited
about how (and why!) Dave wants to open up the fine art of typography to
a larger public. To be continued with an interview hopefully soon. In
the mean time, here you can read his weblog:
<a href="http://understandinglimited.com/archives/">http://understandinglimited.com/archives/</a></p>November 15: nm-X2007-10-14T16:10:00+02:002007-10-14T16:10:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2007-10-14:/live/november-15-open-for-business.html<p><a href="http://nm-x.com/event/2007/11/open-source-publishing-briefing"><img alt="nmx.jpg" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/nmx.jpg"></a>
"<em>What we make is often defined by what tools we can use to make it</em>" is
the motto of an Open Source Publishing event coming up in London.</p>
<p>OSP will assist Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg (Mute) at this
event, which is hosted by Central St. Martin's College of Art …</p><p><a href="http://nm-x.com/event/2007/11/open-source-publishing-briefing"><img alt="nmx.jpg" class="float" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/nmx.jpg"></a>
"<em>What we make is often defined by what tools we can use to make it</em>" is
the motto of an Open Source Publishing event coming up in London.</p>
<p>OSP will assist Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg (Mute) at this
event, which is hosted by Central St. Martin's College of Art and
Design.</p>
<div class="clear">
</div>
<p><a href="http://nm-x.com/event/2007/11/open-source-publishing-briefing">http://nm-x.com/event/2007/11/open-source-publishing-briefing</a><br>
<!--more--></p>
<blockquote>
<p>"What we make is often defined by what tools we can use to make it.
This briefing introduces designers and publishers who are moving
beyond the limited set of possibilities offered commercially available
publishing tools.</p>
<p>"We will look at three key tools: 'The Gimp' (an open source bitmap
graphics tool, like Adobe Photoshop), 'Inkscape' (an open source
vector illustration tool, like Adobe Illustrator), and Scribus – an
open source layout tool like Quark Express or Adobe InDesign.</p>
<p>But besides specific tools, this briefing moves beyond outmoded
boundaries in the publishing process between writing, designing, and
printing: between the page and the 'Net. Attendees will hear from
presenters how dispensing with these boundaries creates immense
creative and business opportunities for cross-format experimentation
in the future of print and publishing.</p>
<p>This briefing will be presented by Simon Worthington and Laura
Oldenbourg of Mute Magazine and Openmute."</p>
</blockquote>About Constant Verlag2006-09-12T22:16:00+02:002006-09-12T22:16:00+02:00OSPtag:blog.osp.kitchen,2006-09-12:/works/constant-verlag.html<p><img alt="stapleparti.JPG" id="image112" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/stapleparti.JPG"></p>
<p><strong>Constant Verlag</strong> re-publishes material from the depth of the Constant
Archives in A5 cahiers of maximum 48 pages. Some of those texts are
available on line as well, others are just saved on one of our
harddrives; some written in French, others in English or Dutch; recent
or as early …</p><p><img alt="stapleparti.JPG" id="image112" src="http://blog.osp.kitchen/images/uploads/stapleparti.JPG"></p>
<p><strong>Constant Verlag</strong> re-publishes material from the depth of the Constant
Archives in A5 cahiers of maximum 48 pages. Some of those texts are
available on line as well, others are just saved on one of our
harddrives; some written in French, others in English or Dutch; recent
or as early as 1997. In addition to material generated by Constant, we
have started a sub-series <strong>Retrospective Readings</strong>, proposing you
materials worth re-reading.</p>
<p>Find all editions here: <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?cat=19">Constant
Verlag</a></p>
<p>If you want your own copy, visit us at a Printing Party or download the
PDF and use <a href="http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=90">this recipe</a>. All
texts are layed-out using open source software, and available under a
free licence.</p>