Well, technically not open-source related... but I think this campaign deserves all designers' attention. In a nice mock of Apple's iLife design + writing, Greenpeace reminds us that not all that is wireless comes without footprint. Calling all bloggers, taggers, social bookmarkers and other cool people to the rescue, Greenpeace thinks …
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Who's Afraid of Adobe? - Not me, says the Mozilla foundation.
As we already mentioned in this blog, Adobe owns many of the (proprietary) tools used by designers nowadays: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and after having acquired Macromedia, it also owns Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, etc. Monopoly rhymes with monoculture.
However, Adobe has not always been the enemy of free formats. A recent …
Design for the common good
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 …
When standards are political
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 …Printing Party at Wizard of Os: Art & Copyright
Wednesday September 13, 10:00 – 20:00
Tesla, Klosterstraße 68-70, Berlin
http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2806
Workshop Organised by Cornelia Sollfrank and Nicolas Malevé
Printing Party by Harrisson & Pierre HuyghebaertFREEdom and OPENness – anything but marketing and ideology? Sharing, really? Culture from and for the Commons. One day …
C'est parti
Souvenirs / Greetings from the Print Party!
Print Party! Join!
Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a Quarantaine pour une bonne Print Party! Ce sera a 16:00, et ca durera jusque peut-etre 20:00. Ca sera en français avec accent, (et bequilles en anglais et en néerlandais), mené par la Constant Printing + Cooking Team.
Ou l'on apprendra comment mettre en page …
Coming Soon: Print Party
Friday July 7 16:00: Printing Party at Quarantaine (Brussels), with Scribus get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails. More details in a few days!Find more P s with open content license at:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv
(Advanced search …Exit Save-As-PDF for Microsoft users?
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 …
Printing Party 0.2 at Digitales
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 …