Fresh news from Paris:
Since a few months the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie supports the Scribus team. The goal is to make the program ready for new developers and users from Asia and Africa and this is *very* good news for the rest of us too!
The project goes …
On the way to a new text engine, the nice things that will be lost.
As of revision 15877, Scribus displays severals paragraphs, fully shaped
and featured, but remains uncertain of where to put them. The
Scribus/OIF project goes on, aiming, among other things, to make graphic
designers a …
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H E Y ! Libre Graphics Magazine #1 is out !
Bravo Ana, ginger, Ricardo + the whole team and participants.
Follow the details about the production process and order soon your copy
from their
blog.
The opening talk therefore sounds like a manifest, asking to valorize Free Software, in order to "infiltrate culture in a positive way". Pierre Marchand, member of the OSP collective, presenting a collaborative ornamental font, supports this proposal totally: "In our domain, the freedom of software is the single tool to …
After we turned the simplest design into a complicated process involving Fontforge, Subversion, Scribus Python scripter, PoDoFo, glue and good wills, the Dingbats Liberation Fest font (rev.106) is now visible in good company (DejaVu for the closer and some amazing pieces of art around) at make art - in between …
Courtesy: Inkscape parallel-stroke hatching
Excellent post by Troy Sobotka explaining why designers should collaborate with Free Software projects and stop responding to contests:
"We need a round table interaction where literature, art, design, philosophy, psychology, and sociology can be engaged. We need a cross pollination of creative fields and studies. We need to have …
We're very excited about the first issue of Libre Graphics Magazine coming up soon. A place for discussion on the use and development of Libre Graphics seems more relevant than ever. With ginger coons, Ana Carvalho and Ricardo Lafuente on the editorial team, support from the Mardigrafe printing house and …
The 2010 edition of the Make Art festival will take place at Maison de l'Architecture in Poitiers, France, from the 4th to 7th of November. This year theme is in-between design: rediscovering collaboration in digital art.
OSP will give a small lecture and be part of the exhibition with the …
Just out: The fOam Open Sauces book + insert!
The book contains essays, recipes and images documenting Open Sauces:
"a sequence of experimental courses, matched with drinks, improvised music and esteemed guests. While savouring the foods, the guests will be engaged in table conversations, sharing experiences, recipes and ingredients needed to …
