Towards is a cartographic project close to OSP and the second publication is finally out and available after a long 9 months of preparation. Following our informations, it's the last one that will be produced using proprietary software ;)... But the timeline present on the cover and backcover, made from all …
Kanttekeningen
bij een databank documents our investigation into the inner workings of
the database of BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and
media art.
To visualise the data stored, we wrote a plugin in Inkscape, manually generated graphs and scripted .svg - you can read everything about what we found …
On his weblog Infinite Knots, Inkscape's Bryce Harrington explains that if you want to have a feature implemented in an open source project, offering money will probably not help. He describes how "folks who aren't developers" challenged Inkscape developers to make the application work on MacOSX, after first having tried …
Since the first time I've used an autotrace program -Adobe Streamline 1.0 in the early nineties- I've been disappointed by the unavoidable angles in curves, named kinks or cusps, that pledged the vector output. Lots of designers and developers seem not to care about it, but for me it …
With * new * OSP Yi Jiang we are currently working on typography and lay-out for CROSS-over: Kunst, Media en Design in Vlaanderen, a publication edited by Liesbeth Huybrechts and published by BAM / Lannoo.
The book is layed-out in Scribus and contains various database visualisations generated in Inkscape (in collaboration with Michael …
Inkscape allows python scripts to be used as effects plugins. In a nutshell: you use the DOM to create / manipulate the structure of the SVG document and use CSS properties to style -- so there's quite some overlap with "regular" CGI & web programming.
This example (circles) is based on the example …
(A post for readers with some F/LOSS stamina)
After producing a flyer for
VJ10 in Inkscape without too
much trouble, we confidently decide to do a poster next. With a three
week programme of lectures, workshops and
installations following four
interwoven themes, scattered over five locations and of course …
Fontforge is an ideal font design program, as far we could test it out:
Opening mac fonts (on ppc here) is more direct, and drawing tools are
really ok to take on. Soft seems more fluid than previous version and...
it can easely import inkscape svgs!
Here is a way …
OSP are currently working and testing hard for Verbindingen - Jonction 10 festival, organised by meta collaborators Constant. Offset CYMK Printout (5000 ex.) expected for next wednesday, with all the blurs, transparencies, gradients and fonts...
While trying to export the svg from inkscape to pdf, we encountered few problems with transparencies …
No it's not a new software, it's a record OSP contributed to, using inkscape and gimp... Proud to announce another printed matter on a great maxi.
0704 - DOXA- ODESSA
“DONNA”
THREE HIGHLY AMAZING TRACKS. A VOCAL TECHNO TRACK WITH ODESSAS BEAUTIFUL
VOICE, AND TWO OTHER HOT AND SMASHING TECHNO PRODUCTIONS …
