Two projects to submit fonts to, or find others to work with:
Typeforge
http://www.typeforge.net
The Typeforge project was initiated by Portuguese type designer Pedro Amado, to create a platform for "open source collaborative type design". You are encouraged to share sketches, notes and ideas and work on …
Microsoft has recently announced that their 2007 release of Office will not support the "save-as-PDF"-option anymore. This might be bad news for designers' favorite file-format. PDF could become rather exotic when Microsoft users decide en masse to "Save-As-XPS" instead.
Adobe inc. owns the patents for creating and reading PDF-files …
At this years' edition of
Digitales, we tested out
a recipe for producing booklets, using texts with open licenses that are
available on line. The recipe was an excuse to discuss the relation
between software and design, why it would be interesting for
designers/publishers to consider using FLOSS tools …
The focus of this recipe is on the last bit: rearranging pages so that you can easily print out nice booklets. For a quick-and-dirty solution you can use Abiword or OpenOffice for the page-lay out part but Scribus is essential when you want to be precise with typography.
The recipe …
A new kid on the block? Makers of 3D-modeling software Blender announce
that they have developed a "solution for fast and flexible creation of
2D graphics and layouts for web site design and print". Its interface
-no surprise - resembles Blender and other proprietary animation
packages such as Flash; the website …
Discovering that there are so little free fonts* available, keeps surprising us. But did you know that even the logo for Debian, the version of Linux that amongst others Ubuntu is based on, was done in a proprietary font (Poppl Laudatio Condensed)?
* There is a lot of Freeware around, but …
The French weekly Le Tigre announces:
This week, we have an article about free softwares in "Le Tigre":
http://www.le-tigre.net/No11.html
There is a "encadré" about Scribus. You can see it there:
http://rdereel.free.fr/letigre/011/scribus.jpg
Constant's contribution to OknoPublic01, May 26 2006
New media curator --- information architect -- theater maker -- science fiction writer -- data base programmer -- media designer or software artist: we use computer programmes to write, read, listen, publish, edit and play. More than often we do all these things at the same time and …
Production
line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing
and binding of The Continuous Present
On May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into …
Invalidity Division, sounds like science-fiction, doesn't it? Registered community design is not bad either. Time to start a jargon file...
[...]this time the dispute is over fonts; specifically Segoe, one of the typefaces Microsoft wants to use in Vista (the new Windows, "bringing clarity to your world"). Microsoft filed its …
