With Mute's Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg, OSP participated in a NM-X network evening. Following our presentations, we discussed the problems and potential of installing free software on proprietary platforms, whether it was interesting to develop a free software 'design suite', the position of free fonts and much more. [Notes …
(A post for readers with some F/LOSS stamina)
After producing a flyer for
VJ10 in Inkscape without too
much trouble, we confidently decide to do a poster next. With a three
week programme of lectures, workshops and
installations following four
interwoven themes, scattered over five locations and of course …
2 day workshop
Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (20 + 21 November, 2007)
What permutations between typeface, typesetting and text can you imagine? How to design through scripting and can you read differently with computer manipulations?
Full brief:
Design could not exist without a larger eco system of cultural works around it. Even …
While
looking for designers writing about their relation to tools, I
discovered the excellent William Morris
Archives, part
of the Marxist writers' Internet
Archive. To Morris, to own
his means of production, was the only way a designer/workman could find
back pleasure in work, and this in turn he …
Fontforge is an ideal font design program, as far we could test it out:
Opening mac fonts (on ppc here) is more direct, and drawing tools are
really ok to take on. Soft seems more fluid than previous version and...
it can easely import inkscape svgs!
Here is a way …
While preparing Werkplaats Typografie workshop, I had the good surprise to discover fontforge-executables in mac in an install package. This means installation of newer and better fontforge is now pretty much easier that it used to be. I've installed and worked on the ppc version of it. You still need …
OSP are currently working and testing hard for Verbindingen - Jonction 10 festival, organised by meta collaborators Constant. Offset CYMK Printout (5000 ex.) expected for next wednesday, with all the blurs, transparencies, gradients and fonts...
While trying to export the svg from inkscape to pdf, we encountered few problems with transparencies …
"It may well turn out that one of the most important effects of open source’s success will be to teach us that play is the most economically efficient mode of creative work." (Eric S. Raymond, postscript (2000) to The Cathedral and the Bazaar)
The Cathedral and the Bazaar is …
Adobe's new Creative Suite is currently advertised with the slogan: Creative License - Take as much as you want. Terms and Conditions which apply when you submit a feature request or a bug report:
You agree that by submitting your Idea, you acknowledge and agree that any such Idea is nonconfidential …
