This week the Dutch Design Foundation Premsela organised 'For the common good', a conference around Pierre Bernhard (Grapus, Ne Pas Plier), who has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus price.
Design critic Hugues Boekraad introduced the work of Bernard with a plea for reflexive design; in his perspective designers have the …
Stroom Den
Haag
started their year long project After Neurath with a public symposium.
After Neurath looked/looks at the relevance of 1930's philosopher and
information activist Otto Neurath, and as you can imagine various
familiar issues came up.
More information about Otto Neurath: http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier …
What does it mean, when a typeface is released in the public domain? What are the legal issues surrounding typography? How can a font be generated collaboratively, using open source software? What does it mean, an open standard and how can such a standard fit different contexts?
To get our …
Due to my recent task of teaching typography, I was looking around for
courses and experiences in that domain. This drove me to Ellen Lupton's
website, teacher at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA):
www.designwritingresearch.org.
There, in an impressive generosity, you can consult her current syllabi
and exercices …
James Love just posted this interesting report
on Nettime:
When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format)
Yesterday I attended a meeting hosted by TACD at Harvard's Berkman
Center about a very important issue -- one that is both highly technical
and political at the same time -- the battle over …
A report from the whole day is here:
http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/in...
For Wizard of OS Constant Printing Team members Harrisson and Pierre
Huyghebaert showed that designing and printing booklets with Open Source
software is nowhere near Science Fiction.
Wednesday the 13th of September, Pierre and Harrisson presented …
Lay-out in Scribus
Download low-res PDF
Finished! Sketched and produced a seven page contribution to
Open (Dutch bi-monthly on
art in public space) + inside cover. Images were prepared in Gimp;
pattern assembled in Inkskape and document lay-out in Scribus
(v1.3.3.2); all on Ubuntu.
- Importing outlines from Gimp …
Constant Verlag re-publishes material from the depth of the Constant Archives in A5 cahiers of maximum 48 pages. Some of those texts are available on line as well, others are just saved on one of our harddrives; some written in French, others in English or Dutch; recent or as early …
Conditions of production and cultural consumption
After Nicolas gave a brief history of how author rights have developed
and how the free software and copyleft movements responded to its
increasing restrictive use...
...while trying to be not to grim about the way copyright laws are currently used and abused...
This …
Les nouveaux habits de la copie, Nicolas Malevé
Text available on line:
http://www.constantvzw.com/downloads/nouveaux_habits.pdf
PDF lay-out:
habits_quarantainec.pdf
PDF cover:
cover_robot.pdf
License: Copyleft, License Art Libre
Date of publishing: 07-07-2006 (Quarantaine)
