Open Source Publishing is a graphic design agency that uses only Free and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based digital culture foundation Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing graphic design using an expanding range of tools.
We are serious about testing the possibilities and limitations of F/LOSS in a professional design environment, without expecting to find (or offer!) the same experience as the ones we are used to. In fact, we are interested in experimenting with everything that shows up in the cracks.
More about OSP
- What is in a name
- Why OSP thinks fonts should be free software
- Awkward Gestures
- Interview with Matthew Fuller
- Design Tools for Designers
OSP members
Harrisson
Interview: You need to copy to understand
Graphic designer and teacher based in Brussels. Started to use as much Open Source software as possible on his Macintosh as part of a research project The Tomorrow Book at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. By now his practice runs on F/LOSS entirely.
Pierre Huyghebaert
http://www.speculoos.com
Exploring several practices around graphic design, he currently drives the studio Speculoos. Interested to use free sofware to re-learn to work in others way and collaboratively on cartography, type design, web interface, schematic illustration, teaching and book design.
Ludivine Loiseau
http://www.ludi.be/
crashed into Open Source on board of an OSP truck on the way to Poland. Is part of the Speculoos team, studied typography at the École Estienne in Paris
Nicolas Maleve
http://towards.be
Systems- and software developer from Brussels, currently living in Barcelona, with a long interest in the politics and practice of software. Uses Linux since 1998 and makes publishing- and distribution systems for collaborative work.
Yi Jiang
http://www.taidangao.org/
Shuttled between graphic design and non graphic design after studying in The Central Academy of Art & Design (Beijing) and a short stay at ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels). Till the day that she knocked at the door of OSP…
Ivan Monroy López
http://textzi.net
Programmer, writer from Mexico. Studied at the Piet Zwart Institute Media programme. Interested in programmatic print, and niche publishing. His new zine is called “print soapbox”. He will give you a copy if you just ask
Femke Snelting
http://snelting.domainepublic.net/
Graphic designer and artist based in Brussels, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software. Switched to Linux after using Apple Macintosh for more than ten years.
And also: Lauren Grusenmeyer, Alexandre Leray, Pierre Marchand, Stéphanie Vilayphiou …
Left to right: Ivan Monroy Lopez, Harrisson, Pierre Huyghebaert, Femke Snelting, Ludivine Loiseau, Yi Liang
