During our current Scribus renderframe experiments day, Ivan shows us a customised Wordpress template with a gorgeous index page in Unicode for the Circular Facts website.
The first months of 2011
What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here:
January
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 …Use Cases and Affordances
Enjoying the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine First Flight too? In the mean time, the editorial team started working on a brand new one! The theme for the upcoming magazine is Use Cases and Affordances:
Our software tools, in their affordances and potential use cases, define for us, to …
Territorial practice
It's hard to believe that we are back for more than three weeks from Tel Aviv, where we participated in Open Code Versus Military Culture? Aspects in Israel Digital Culture. It feels both close and very far away.
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Chaîne typo-graphique ouverte
Nous fêtons demain le premier cours Open Source de l'ERG.
In September started a fisrt "arts numériques" open source course at the École de Recherche Graphique.
Visit the course wiki.
The students will be proud to present the first specimens of their pictures-fonts.
And in exclusivity we will play …When Free Culture infiltrates art and design fields...
We are always thrilled when we see design projects around free culture. Lately the blog Manystuff has enlightened a lot of this kind of projects, either on/with Open Source or around free of charge culture, public domain...
Here is a summary:
- Free Kevin — A Hacker screening series — Can't find …
Archipel Opening
Archipel is both a permanent collection, a website and a travelling exhibition. It intends to propose an intuitive exploration of adventurous music and images appeared since the early twentieth century.
Archipel has chosen to group these discs and films as "islands" involving artists (or works) that share similar creative practices …Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine
Imagine ((This Scenario for vowels, consonants and a text-engine describes the sophisticated new text-engine that the Scribus team is preparing us at this very moment)) a paragraph in Scribus. The first word consists of three vowels and a consonant. The Scribus text-engine receives this cluster of characters as a first …
Scribus Re-loaded
Fresh news from Paris:
Since a few months the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie 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!
The project goes …
We are not here to be correct
Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente from Manufactura Independente have made PropCourier Sans, the display and identity font for Libre Graphics Magazine ... a super derivative of our own NotCourierSans ("We are not here to be polite")!
Download hopefully available *soon* :-)Via: http://www.adaptstudio.ca/blog/2010/11/while-you-were-out-i-made-you-a-type-specimen.html