Hi, OSP.
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.
I'd like to pay you to create 3 original fonts - are you willing …
Data analysis as a discourse
An interview with Michael Terry (ingimp)
At the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 in Wroclaw, just before Michael Terry presents ingimp to an audience of curious Gimp developers and users, we meet up to talk more about 'instrumenting The Gimp' and about the way Terry thinks data analysis could be done …
doubt, critique, reason, hope
For everyone (like me) who keeps re-reading the 1992 edition of Robin Kinross' Modern Typography: an essay in critical history... his revised edition (published in 2004) ends in an interestingly different way*:
"The phrase ‘democratization of typography’ has become common, referring to the wide availability of the tools of production …
Le Palais Châlet
This flyer has been done by hand and by gimp with our beloved DJ Atka, to promote a new clubnight: Le Palais Chalet.
Palais Chalet first event will be this 24th of October, and is called La Corneille d'Or. Pierre Normal, from pneu record label and Dolina will play live …
Interview avec Denis
L'ATypI 08 est en route à St Petersburg. Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, co-leader du projet DejaVu y a présenté ce matin le projet sur lequel il travaille actuellement.
C'est l'occasion pour nous de publier une interview OSP de Denis, rencontré en mai dernier aux Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 de Wrocław.
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Has re-design replaced revolution?
Philosopher of science, Bruno Latour, opened the recent Networks of Design conference with a keynote address: A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design. In his lecture, Latour linked the growing importance of design with his idea that "matters of fact" have become "matters of concern".
Provocatively …
Radio Luz mixtape
This was the playlist when OSP went on a radio station in Wrocław. A few months after, it's hard to reconstruct the exact sequence of events that led us there. It was something like this: there was a gig at an alternative space, David met us there, he had helped …
We're not here to be polite
It's rentrée day at OSP
and we're shaking
our website.
The future ~~hours~~ days
will show some chaos on pages and
categories and html renderings...
NotCourier-sans nouvelle is arrived
A new release of the NotCourier-sans is now available here, with its bold.
The OSP frog, the IJ, ij, numero and trademark ligatures are now encoded in the discretionary ligatures.
Congratulations sK1!
With a staggering 1463 points (runners up Typo3 and OpenLieroX ended on respectively 1269 and 572 points), the Open Source prepress project SK1 has well deserved it's ticket to the upcoming Hackontest event in Zurich, 25-26 September.
We're very happy to hear that the sK1 team will have a chance …