Sneak preview of what New OSP might look like:
The Flow of Text in MasterPages
The scripting in Scribus happens in the house of Python. The Scribus module is loaded into scripts with the standard import scribus or from scribus import *. In this post, we'll be using only one function off this module:
createText(x, y, width, height)This function puts a TextBox of the …
Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat?
The Institute of Network
Cultures published an
insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist
Rosalind
Gill.
Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a
decade after the web, is based on 40 'semi-structured' interviews
with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information
architects, ...). Her study …OSP at LGM
For the Libre Graphics Meeting, taking place May 4-6 in Montreal, Canada, OSP members Harrisson and Femke will speak about FLOSS and design: Relaying Systems - Why designers should be interested in FLOSS. The programme is here!
Monopolios Artificiales sobre Bienes Intangibles
Nomade, an Argentinian group of artists using Free Software, just finished a printed publication on intellectual property, plus a detailed tour through the process: http://nomade.liminar.com.ar/wakka.php?wakka=MaBI&v=der
Included: design sketches, illustrations, description of the pre-press process, final pdf's and a html version …
DIN - Das Ist Norm - II
"FE-Schrift or fälschungserschwerende Schrift (falsification-hindering script) has been the only typeface used on new vehicle registration plates in Germany since November, 2000. It was designed for the German government in the late 1970s in the light of Red Army Fraction terrorist activities, when it was discovered that with the then …
Deadline March 14, 2007 at 11:59 PM PST
The Open Font Library (OFL.o) needs a logo to help identify their project. They want the community to help create this logo and three judges from the OFL.o will select the winning logo which they will use in all of their branding.
Logos need to be submitted in …
And all he left was letter A...
A little note on Appropriation and Type text.
Gutemberg printed the first book with movable type in 1455. Maybe copyright wasn't existing at the time, but there was, and there is still, a fight for the first inventor of the printer machine in Europe. Castaldi is alleged to have created …
Use-ability
At the FOSDEM (Free and Open Source Software Developers Meeting) conference in Brussels, two openSuse developers presented their research on usability of KDE desktops.
Their testing methods consists of interviews, questionnaires, screen recordings plus precise video documentation of a group of 10 people trying to accomplish 12 tasks using various …
Appropriation and Type - before and today
Appropriation has been a recurring and accepted strategy in defining typography as activity and business. We can pinpoint four cases where appropriation has definitely been key in defining landmarks in the history of type, not only aiding the breaking of technical and creative boundaries but also helping to question legal …