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 …
Before starting a fresh new OSP-season, first a post long due:
This conversation with Juliane de Moerlooze was recorded March 2009 in the context of Female Icons, a project by De Geuzen but I think OSP-readers might like to read it as well?
“when you hear people talk about women …
In this recent Toyota campaign, a race-driver draws a font. And if you
watch the fast-paced 'making-of' video closely, it seems that Please
Make Me Design (a band of type-designers from Brussels) used Free
Software to produce it: FontForge and OpenLayers are used to create the
project.
A few years …
[en français, voir ci-dessous]
Next spring, the fifth Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will take place in Brussels, Belgium. In May 2010, users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source creative software gather in the European capital for the collective sharing of creativity, innovation and ideas.
About the Libre Graphics …
Of course we discuss now and than amongst ourselves, whether it is better to change 'Open Source Publishing' to: 'Free Software Publishing' (FSP...), or maybe: 'Free, Libre and Open Source Publishing' (FLOSP!). Reading Rob Myers text 'Open Source Art Again' makes me bring it up here:
The name Open Source …
Planet Open Fonts
"Planet Open Fonts is a window into the lives and work of people
forming the open font community" writes Nicolas Spalinger in the
editorial of this very useful aggregration page, and OSP is proud to be
included: http://planet.open-fonts.org/
Create @ f.d.o.
Another useful …
