A photo-reportage by Dave Bullock, published on the Wired, that shows the process of digitalising books for the Internet Archive. This process is still done manually due to the fragility of old books and their size variance.
"For those picturing an efficient, automated process involving robotic arms and high-tech scanners …
Opening tomorrow!
Signage for The Pavilion of Provisionary Happiness by OSP. The font will be released under an open license . More images: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=7
Thanks to ERG and Marc Wathieu, OSP will perform friday 11th of April, during Open Course event.
http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1138
OSP Print Party
11/04
14:00 - 17:00
Erg (École de Recherche Graphique)
87, rue du page - 1050 Bruxelles.
Supposed to be open to the …
In the summer of 1997, the NLNet Foundation sold its commercialized internet provision activities to UUNET (the internet subsidiary of WorldCom). This created a fund from which the foundation now supports activities that provide network technology to the community and keep outcomes in the "public domain". NLnet has picked Identity …
"Why do you bother with complicated stuff to convert images in CYMK?"
asked Loic Vanderstichelen the other night "Use
Krita!"
And it works! It even manages 16 bits tif!
Now we know! ;)
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 …
[All lectures have been archived + will be on line soon!]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/live
OSP selection:
~~Sunday 25/11 | 20:45~~
~~InfoEnclosure-2.0 Dmytri Kleiner~~
Saturday 1/12 | 12:00
Open source
software
usability
Görkem Çetin
Saturday …
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 …
Looking for ways to fund an European project on Free Fonts... OSP participated in the Info Day on cultural grants, organised by the European Commission in Brussels.
PubliActie @ Boekenbeurs Antwerpen
Inspired
by the legacy of Cornelius
Kiliaan, inventor of
the first Dutch dictionary, Marthe van Dessel and Wendy van Wynsberghe
look for neologisms and definitions in search of a word. Using Free
Software and Free Licenses, the result will be an open source lexicon
taking into account …
