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 …
la bouche de la reine
Courtesy: Inkscape parallel-stroke hatching
446 Nancy A5
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make art opening starts at 19 pm
Hurry up ! Dingbats Liberation Fest Characters are crowding the walls.
Get your D.L.F contributor certificate ✄Stop competing, Start collaborating
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 …
Fund Libre Graphics Magazine 1.1!
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 …
a poetic and political necessity
Next week another delegation of OSP travels to Tel Aviv to present at the conference Open Code Versus Military Culture? Aspects in Israel Digital Culture organised by the Shenkar College for Engineering and Design. Following the talk, there will be a worksession at the Israeli Center for Digital Art.
From …
./configure && make art
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 …
Open Sauces
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 …
Impossible choice
Packt-publishing, big on books about Open Source, now wants us to 'Vote for our favorite Open Source Graphics Software to win'. It is a clever campaign I guess: data about popular applications should be useful in deciding what books will sell. Packt gives away one proprietary e-reader to a random …
OSP-summit
Last Thursday and Friday OSP gathered in Heure-en-Famenne to discuss future plans and current projects. After almost 5 years of work we wanted to take a bit of time to look back and forward. We made several resolutions and decisions. Some will be already visible in ~~the coming weeks~~ now …