This weekend the annual meeting of Free and Open Source Developers
(FOSDEM) takes place in Brussels. As
usual, the ULB fills up with developers from all over Europe, discussing
large scale projects such as Gnome desktop, Mozilla, Xorg and PHP.
Unfortunately none of the talks addressed our usual working tools …
A more intimate relationship
David Reinfurt's essay Making do and getting by departs from the work of Muriel Cooper and Anthony Froshaug, and relates their critically engaged practice to contemporary projects such as Juerg Lehni's Scriptographer. In this way, he convincingly shows how designers can and should reclaim a more intimate relationship with the …
Inkscape plugins in Python
Inkscape allows python scripts to be used as effects plugins. In a nutshell: you use the DOM to create / manipulate the structure of the SVG document and use CSS properties to style -- so there's quite some overlap with "regular" CGI & web programming.
This example (circles) is based on the example …
Batik, new release
The Apache Foundation has released a new version of Batik.
Batik is a Java-based toolkit for applications or applets that want to use images in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format for various purposes, such as display, generation or manipulation.
Using Batik’s thumbnail function to navigate a complex SVG …Why you should own the beer company you design for
Interview with Dmytri Kleiner
OSP
met Venture
Communist Dmytri
Kleiner late night (thank you Le Coq for the soundtrack!) after his talk
InfoEnclosure-2.0,
in a bar. We wanted to ask him what his ideas about peer production
could mean for the practice of designers and typographers.Referring to Benjamin …
UniConvertor!
A late announcement for an ultra useful tool: Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov have released UniConvertor, a universal vector graphics translator. It uses the sK1 engine to convert one format into another.
With UniConvertor you can now convert files from: CorelDRAW ver.7-X3 (CDR/CDT/CCX/CDRX/CMX), Adobe Illustrator …
Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 Live
[All lectures have been archived + will be on line soon!]
Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 Festival has started! Follow lectures + discussions on line: http://www.constantvzw.com/vj10/liveOSP selection:
~~Sunday 25/11 | 20:45~~
~~InfoEnclosure-2.0 Dmytri Kleiner~~
Saturday 1/12 | 12:00
Open source software usability Görkem Çetin
Saturday …Free Operations / 1
2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats TypografieVoilà!
To be continued: meeting Dave Crossland
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 …
