Finally... How to choose and install ~~four~~ three new distributions
Since announcing that it was time for a new adventure, colleagues and friends have advised me what to install and why (see notes below). In the last few weeks I tried to follow up on their tips and I have …
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Four-hundred posts to OSP-blog since January 20, 2006 when we wrote: OK, It is time now. Browse the archives: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/archives
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 …
"With the written word an absolute fundamental component of daily communication, typography and fonts are vital to providing aesthetic harmony and legibility to our textual works. There are thousands of fonts available, of which only a small number are useful or any good for setting vast quantities of text, and …
(Call forwarded from Isabelle Massu)
The OSP's have gathered around their respective working tables in Brussels and Barcelona, to prepare Software History Mapping Night, tonight from 20:30 - 22:00 (GMT+1).
For this occasion, Nicolas has created a rudimentary, quick, lo-tech
collaborative mapping tool:
http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map
http://www.ospublish.constantvzw …
In
a first attempt to draw a collaborative map of the many different tools
that together define the practice of digital design, OSP attempts to
recollect facts and anecdotes gathered over the last few years.
At Software history mapping night we'll gather around the …
For everyone (like me) who keeps re-reading the 1992 edition of Robin Kinross' Modern Typography: an essay in critical history... his revised edition (published in 2004) ends in an interestingly different way*:
"The phrase ‘democratization of typography’ has become common, referring to the wide availability of the tools of production …
We
nearly missed our train back to Brussels while meeting Dave Crossland.
At the station we talked about the history of font editing software,
about the 'free font movement' and everything that could become possible
once fonts and font editing software are free. We were also excited
about how (and …
