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!
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 …
The focus of this recipe is on the last bit: rearranging pages so that you can easily print out nice booklets. For a quick-and-dirty solution you can use Abiword or OpenOffice for the page-lay out part but Scribus is essential when you want to be precise with typography.
The recipe …
Production
line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing
and binding of The Continuous Present
On May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into …
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