As we already mentioned in this blog, Adobe owns many of the (proprietary) tools used by designers nowadays: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and after having acquired Macromedia, it also owns Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, etc. Monopoly rhymes with monoculture.
However, Adobe has not always been the enemy of free formats. A recent …
This week the Dutch Design Foundation Premsela organised 'For the common good', a conference around Pierre Bernhard (Grapus, Ne Pas Plier), who has been awarded the prestigious Erasmus price.
Design critic Hugues Boekraad introduced the work of Bernard with a plea for reflexive design; in his perspective designers have the …
James Love just posted this interesting report
on Nettime:
When standards are political -- ODF (the Open Document Format)
Yesterday I attended a meeting hosted by TACD at Harvard's Berkman
Center about a very important issue -- one that is both highly technical
and political at the same time -- the battle over …
Conditions of production and cultural consumption
After Nicolas gave a brief history of how author rights have developed
and how the free software and copyleft movements responded to its
increasing restrictive use...
...while trying to be not to grim about the way copyright laws are currently used and abused...
This …
Wednesday September 13, 10:00 – 20:00
Tesla, Klosterstraße 68-70, Berlin
http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2806
Workshop Organised by Cornelia Sollfrank and Nicolas Malevé
Printing Party by Harrisson & Pierre Huyghebaert
FREEdom and OPENness – anything but marketing and ideology? Sharing, really? Culture from and for the Commons. One day …
Souvenirs / Greetings from the Print Party!
Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a Quarantaine pour une bonne Print Party! Ce sera a 16:00, et ca durera jusque peut-etre 20:00. Ca sera en français avec accent, (et bequilles en anglais et en néerlandais), mené par la Constant Printing + Cooking Team.
Ou l'on apprendra comment mettre en page …
Friday July 7 16:00: Printing Party at
Quarantaine (Brussels), with Scribus
get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails.
More details in a few days!
Find more P s with open content license at:
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv
(Advanced search …
Microsoft has recently announced that their 2007 release of Office will not support the "save-as-PDF"-option anymore. This might be bad news for designers' favorite file-format. PDF could become rather exotic when Microsoft users decide en masse to "Save-As-XPS" instead.
Adobe inc. owns the patents for creating and reading PDF-files …
At this years' edition of
Digitales, we tested out
a recipe for producing booklets, using texts with open licenses that are
available on line. The recipe was an excuse to discuss the relation
between software and design, why it would be interesting for
designers/publishers to consider using FLOSS tools …
