Of course we discuss now and than amongst ourselves, whether it is better to change 'Open Source Publishing' to: 'Free Software Publishing' (FSP...), or maybe: 'Free, Libre and Open Source Publishing' (FLOSP!). Reading Rob Myers text 'Open Source Art Again' makes me bring it up here:
The name Open Source …
Out now: The Mag.net reader 3: Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures, edited by Alessandro Ludovico and Nat Muller.
From the introduction:
"a radical change is to be detected between the lines: publishing on
paper is not about rigorously selling and distributing content to a
specific target readership. It is more …
The
hard and well documented
workof
a ~~Dutch~~ Belgian Python artist and designer -
Stani - to produce a coin devoted to Dutch
contemporary architecture, using only
floss. The stroke font he design
for it is simply beautiful (currently no info on availability). Via
Dave's understanding blog.
For everyone (like me) who keeps re-reading the 1992 edition of Robin Kinross' Modern Typography: an essay in critical history... his revised edition (published in 2004) ends in an interestingly different way*:
"The phrase ‘democratization of typography’ has become common, referring to the wide availability of the tools of production …
Philosopher of science, Bruno
Latour, opened the recent Networks of
Design conference with a keynote
address: A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of
Design. In his lecture, Latour linked the growing importance of design
with his idea that "matters of fact" have become "matters of
concern".
Provocatively …
Dave
Walden from the TeX User Group introduces his excellent TUG Interview
Corner as follows:
"technology is created by and evolves with use by people, and the points of view and backgrounds of the people influence the technology"
The ever growing list of interviewees include Barbara Beeton, Donald Knuth, Herman …
Matthew Fuller: One of the things that is notable about OSP is that the problems that you encounter are also described, appearing on your blog. This is something unusual for a company attempting to produce the impression of an efficient ’solution’. Obviously the readers of the blog only get a …
These past few days I've been navigating a sea of acronyms, neologisms and tiny iconic metaphors here at LGM. The thing that I can't get out of my head is the tool that pippin of GIMP used for his talk. At first it looked like a PowerPoint clone, but then …
David Reinfurt's essay Making do and getting by departs from the work of Muriel Cooper and Anthony Froshaug, and relates their critically engaged practice to contemporary projects such as Juerg Lehni's Scriptographer. In this way, he convincingly shows how designers can and should reclaim a more intimate relationship with the …
While
looking for designers writing about their relation to tools, I
discovered the excellent William Morris
Archives, part
of the Marxist writers' Internet
Archive. To Morris, to own
his means of production, was the only way a designer/workman could find
back pleasure in work, and this in turn he …
