Earlier this year, we were invited to work on the identity of the Brussels-based Cimatics A\V Platform.
Cimatics is a framework for initiating and facilitating audiovisual productions, events, publications and workshops.
To launch the new identity, we developed a new family of fonts! We hope you’re ready for the libre dingbats attack URW Gothic L dusty noisy [...]

These days i’m in Malmö for The Art of the Overhead festival.
For some years now, this art festival has done media archeology about the overhead projector. There was a workshop/space this week, there will be performances this weekend, there will be a psychedelic closing party next weekend, etc.
We’re happy to see that the print for [...]

1. The show must go on.
2. The slides are not the content.
3. I try not to open a terminal in front of people.
4. It’s the engineers who are responsible for the bugs and explosions.
5. The preferences are the graveyard of any good idea.
6. The more links an architect got on the internet, the greater the [...]

the workshop’s first publication is ready. every participant has created a fictional petites annonces for it. some pictures of making, collating and distributing.
we’re also on irc at #crying_room on irc.freenode.org

http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=26

on the first day of our workshop at bordeaux, we decided to collectively re-enact an esther ferrer performance. this is a youtube that gives an idea of her movements.
with this as starting point, we drew our own paths in the capc…

Inkboard is an Inkscape extension that allows remote collaboration over the network. In inkscape-devel, there’s a thread where people get all excited over it, and manage to bring down a server as a result
It’s hard not to get overexcited over tools that have collaboration built into them. They give rise to book covers [...]

This was the playlist when OSP went on a radio station in Wrocław. A few months after, it’s hard to reconstruct the exact sequence of events that led us there. It was something like this: there was a gig at an alternative space, David met us there, he had helped us set up the pre-LGM [...]

At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was very simple Perl.
If you just [...]

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 he started correcting it on-the-fly [...]

The scripting in Scribus happens in the house of Python. The Scribus module is loaded into scripts with the standard import scribus or from scribus import *. In this post, we’ll be using only one function off this module:
createText(x, y, width, height)
This function puts a TextBox of the specified width and height at the (x, [...]