"Go into the kitchen and open the first drawer you come to and the odds
are you'll find the wooden spoon that is used to stir soups and sauces.
If this spoon is of a certain age you will see it no longer has its
original shape. It has changed …
pre-LGM: famous people and digital patterns
We
are busy preparing pre-LGM
activities (6-9 May)
and happy to report that it looks like an exciting weekend already. As a
way to warm up for the Libre Graphics
Meeting,
StudioXX will host a Digital Pattern Making
workshop, a celebrity draw-off and an exhibition. ginger
coons is gathering a …Not Gill(ty)
For the second day of the Royal College of Art workshop we paid homage to Eric Gill's typographic work. What better place than London to revisit his classic Gill Sans.
We worked from several different sources and ended up creating three very unique versions of Gill Sans. The first version …
Read The Fine Manual
Today, 1st day out of 3 of workshop at Royal College of Art in London.
We are doing collective remote publishing by sending commands to Scribus from an IRC channel. We are on irc.freenode.net, channel #rcaws if you want to have a glimpse at it, or do blind …
It's possible?
The following question was posted by Pascal Lapalme on the Scribus mailinglist:
"I will animate a conf to explain how to use Scribus, Gimp and Inkscape in a classroom with studient to make a news paper (look here : Atelier 108 - Des outils libres pour la création d'un journalPOLSKU UPDATE
Thanks to Paulo Silva aka nitrofurano, Polsku has now a Latin 1 diacritics
and ligatures set. The new version is available for download on OSP Foundry.+ 4
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Last night, we piped 4 Mac into Dual-Boot Mac OSX and Ubuntu.
To follow the steps is now quite a routine which can be combined with cheap beers and pizza.
1 install rEfit;
2 create a new partition using Disk Utility;
3 reboot on a Ubuntu 10 …Hit any key to exit
Finally... How to choose and install ~~four~~ three new distributions
Since announcing that it was time for a new adventure, colleagues and friends have advised me what to install and why (see notes below). In the last few weeks I tried to follow up on their tips and I have …
As cool as it can be
Fonzie benefits of the preparation for the next iteration of the (?)-annual Constant main event. With Tesseract (an OCR program and library), there's a new friend around, the first meeting with Potrace was quite impressive, we can't wait to see what will happen next.
You can dowload the source code …
Chaîne typo-graphique ouverte
Nous fêtons demain le premier cours Open Source de l'ERG.
In September started a fisrt "arts numériques" open source course at the École de Recherche Graphique.
Visit the course wiki.
The students will be proud to present the first specimens of their pictures-fonts.
And in exclusivity we will play …
