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Welcome back! OSP is about to start a busy year, but before we begin... here a fresh take on the application of Open Source methodologies in design:
"An open source methodology could aid us in moving in this direction for it provides …
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"Neurath's pictograms owe much to the Modernist belief that reality may be modified by being codified – standardised, easy-to-grasp templates as a revolution in human affairs. But the templates themselves, or the code, may end up in their turn aestheticised, reified, in need of a further round of de-cryption, a paradigm …
The Institute of Network
Cultures published an
insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist
Rosalind
Gill.
Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a
decade after the web, is based on 40 'semi-structured' interviews
with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information
architects, ...). Her study …
Appropriation has been a recurring and accepted strategy in defining typography as activity and business. We can pinpoint four cases where appropriation has definitely been key in defining landmarks in the history of type, not only aiding the breaking of technical and creative boundaries but also helping to question legal …
Stroom Den
Haag
started their year long project After Neurath with a public symposium.
After Neurath looked/looks at the relevance of 1930's philosopher and
information activist Otto Neurath, and as you can imagine various
familiar issues came up.
More information about Otto Neurath: http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier …
Constant's contribution to OknoPublic01, May 26 2006
New media curator --- information architect -- theater maker -- science fiction writer -- data base programmer -- media designer or software artist: we use computer programmes to write, read, listen, publish, edit and play. More than often we do all these things at the same time and …
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