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March 2011

PA/PER VIEW: Assembly

March 28th, 2011 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on PA/PER VIEW: Assembly

Assembly: Friday April 1 (18:00 – 20:00) at PA/PER VIEW art book fair WIELS, Avenue van Volxemlaan 354, Brussels (Belgium) This Friday, OSP participates in a discussion initiated by Agency. Agency is the generic name of a Brussels-based agency that was established in 1992 by Kobe Matthys. Agency constitutes a growing “list of things” that […]

Only a few days left to propose your LGM-talk

March 28th, 2011 · Tags: · 3 Comments

* April 1 * April 20 is the final deadline for submitting your talk for the Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal! Are you a developer, designer or a mix of both and involved in Free, Libre and Open Source Software for creative use? Please feel welcome to propose a talk here: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Conference_2011/Submit_Talk1. We would like […]

Document Freedom Day

March 27th, 2011 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Document Freedom Day

Next Wednesday March 30th = Document Freedom Day (DFD), a global day for document liberation. Look here for events in your country: http://documentfreedom.org/2011/events/

Let’s talk about tools

March 24th, 2011 · Tags: · Comments Off on Let’s talk about tools

In the excellent new Libre Graphics Magazine, don’t miss the invitation to submit materials for an exhibition that will run parallel to the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting in Montreal. More details and how to submit at: http://libregraphicsmag.com/tools Deadline: 22 April 2011! Let’s talk about tools for a moment. We, as humans, distinguish ourselves from other […]

Spring font OSP day

March 21st, 2011 · · Comments Off on Spring font OSP day

Spring cleaning with a long awaited operation : the release of our OSP DIN. Spring listing our current favorite fonts, in use for projects or planned to be used : Bentham Copse OSP Din Engshrift Droid Serif and Sans Sorts Mill Goudy Inconsolata Libertine Latin Modern Molengo NotCourierSans PT Serif Puritan Quicksand Ume Univers-Else Vollkorn […]

Support LGM 2011

March 21st, 2011 · Tags: · Comments Off on Support LGM 2011

Donate to help F/LOSS developers and designers work together at LGM! Use this code to display a banner on your own website: And this is how it was made: http://stdin.fr/Bazar/Pledgie

Libre Graphics Meeting 2011, May 10-13 in Montreal

March 19th, 2011 · Tags: · 3 Comments

The official announcement for LGM 2011! → Submit your talk here → Support LGM generously @ Pledgie → More info on the LGM website: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Cutting edge creative tools meet free culture May 10-13, Ecole Polytechnique Engineering School Programmers and artists from around the world are headed to Montreal for the 6th annual Libre […]

Not Gill(ty)

March 11th, 2011 · · 8 Comments

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 was generated by vectorizing a […]

Read The Fine Manual

March 9th, 2011 · · Comments Off on 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 design! From 10am to 5pm, London time. […]

A journey to Vietnam and an open call

March 1st, 2011 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on A journey to Vietnam and an open call

At LGM 2010 in Brussels, we met Hong-Phuc Dang, a young Vietnamese woman full of energy, willing to organize events around Libre Graphics in Asia in addition to her involvement in FOSS/ASIA, a meeting around Free and Open Source Software. We can’t believe it’s been almost a year of planning and that the trip is […]