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November 2007

Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 Live

November 25th, 2007 · · Comments Off on Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 Live

[All lectures have been archived + will be on line soon!] Jonctions/Verbindingen 10 Festival has started! Follow lectures + discussions on line: http://www.constantvzw.com/vj10/live OSP selection: Sunday 25/11 | 20:45InfoEnclosure-2.0 Dmytri Kleiner Saturday 1/12 | 12:00Open source software usability Görkem Çetin Saturday 1/12 | 17:00From centres of calculation to centres of envelopment: intensive movement in digital […]

Free Operations / 1

November 23rd, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Free Operations / 1

2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats Typografie

Voilà!

November 18th, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Voilà!

To be continued: meeting Dave Crossland

November 18th, 2007 · Tags: · Comments Off on To be continued: meeting Dave Crossland

We nearly missed our train back to Brussels while meeting Dave Crossland. At the station we talked about the history of font editing software, about the ‘free font movement’ and everything that could become possible once fonts and font editing software are free. We were also excited about how (and why!) Dave wants to open […]

Open Source Publishing Briefing

November 18th, 2007 · Tags: · · 1 Comment

With Mute’s Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg, OSP participated in a NM-X network evening. Following our presentations, we discussed the problems and potential of installing free software on proprietary platforms, whether it was interesting to develop a free software ‘design suite’, the position of free fonts and much more. [Notes] [Images] If you happen to […]

The Adventure Continues

November 11th, 2007 · Tags: · · · · 3 Comments

(A post for readers with some F/LOSS stamina)

Page tiling with poster

November 6th, 2007 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Page tiling with poster

Virginie and Laurence checking the V/J10 program in real size. Poster is an excellent tool to print .eps or .ps documents in tiles. You can adjust the final size of the file, the amount of overlap, size of the media you print on, work from a percentage (‘enlarge 500%’) etc. Install poster through Synaptic package […]

Free Operations

November 2nd, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Free Operations

2 day workshop Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (20 + 21 November, 2007) What permutations between typeface, typesetting and text can you imagine? How to design through scripting and can you read differently with computer manipulations? Full brief: