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Category: Conversations

OSP converses, talks with, interviews.

We will get to know the machine and we will understand

August 26th, 2009 · Tags: · · · No Comments

Before starting a fresh new OSP-season, first a post long due:
This conversation with Juliane de Moerlooze was recorded March 2009 in the context of Female Icons, a project by De Geuzen but I think OSP-readers might like to read it as well?

“when you hear people talk about women having more sense for the global, [...]

Opening the blackbox of printing

June 27th, 2009 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

When we began to think about how to establish a more rich and warm collaboration with printers after the cold alerts we experienced during OSP production, Georges Charlier’s appetite for research and openness to exotic solutions reappeared in Pierre’s mind. And since we are preparing some new books, it was time for an update on [...]

Gestes Numériques

June 1st, 2009 · Tags: · · · No Comments

Our colleagues from Open Source Video published a video-registration of the discussion that took place at the yearly Journées du Libre.
Enjoy Loic Vanderstichelen, Stéphane Noël, Michel Cleempoel and Marc Wathieu as they present with humour and enthusiasm why F/LOSS is relevant for art- and design education (in French).
http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/journees-du-libre-09/

Even when you are done, you are not done

April 17th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

A conversation with Chris Lilley
Almost a year ago at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008, OSP sat down with Chris Lilley on a small patch of grass in front of the Technical University in Wroclaw, Poland. Warmed up by the early May sun, we talked about the way standards are made, how ’specs’ influence the work [...]

GRRRR – objectivity of the unperfect,

February 24th, 2009 · Tags: · 2 Comments

GRRRR – objectivity of the unperfect,

During an internet wandering, and thanks to excellent K-SET website, I found the link to swiss drawing artist GRRRR website I was looking for a long time. Though I’m fan for a long time of his work, from Maika 2 (www.noraduester.net => music) record sleeve to Vitra 2006 catalogue, I hardly found traces of his [...]

Data analysis as a discourse

October 8th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · · 1 Comment

An interview with Michael Terry (ingimp)
At the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 in Wroclaw, just before Michael Terry presents ingimp to an audience of curious Gimp developers and users, we meet up to talk more about ‘instrumenting The Gimp’ and about the way Terry thinks data analysis could be done as a form of discourse.

Michael Terry [...]

Interview avec Denis

September 18th, 2008 · Tags: · · · No Comments

L’ATypI 08 est en route à St Petersburg. Denis Moyogo Jacquerye, co-leader du projet DejaVu y a présenté ce matin le projet sur lequel il travaille actuellement.
C’est l’occasion pour nous de publier une interview OSP de Denis, rencontré en mai dernier aux Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 de Wrocław.

What’s the thinking here?

May 30th, 2008 · · No Comments

Matthew Fuller: One of the things that is notable about OSP is that the problems that you encounter are also described, appearing on your blog. This is something unusual for a company attempting to produce the impression of an efficient ’solution’. Obviously the readers of the blog only get a formatted version of this, as [...]

Why you should own the beer company you design for

December 21st, 2007 · Tags: · 2 Comments

Interview with Dmytri Kleiner
OSP met Venture Communist Dmytri Kleiner late night (thank you Le Coq for the soundtrack!) after his talk InfoEnclosure-2.0, in a bar. We wanted to ask him what his ideas about peer production could mean for the practice of designers and typographers.

To be continued: meeting Dave Crossland

November 18th, 2007 · Tags: · No Comments

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 [...]

I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind

July 8th, 2007 · Tags: · · 6 Comments

Interview with George Williams, Fontforge developer
(…) I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind — and in some sense I find the user interface beautiful. I’m not sure that anyone else in the world does, because it’s what I want, but I think it’s beautiful. (George Williams, May 2007)
For those who prefer [...]

Le grec, c’est du chinois

May 25th, 2007 · Tags: · · · No Comments

Conversation avec Pierre-Luc Auclair (Déjàvu) et Nicolas Spalinger (OFL)

SIL_deja_vu.mp3 (27 mn – 25 Mb)
Extrait d’une conversation avec Pierre Luc Auclair, graphiste et collaborateur dans le projet de police Déjà vu, et Nicolas Spalinger, bénévole de la SIL, équipe fontes libres Debian et Ubuntu, OFLB.
En français dans le texte, avec quelques questions posées en anglais.
Ou l’on [...]

A user should not be able to shoot himself in the foot

May 19th, 2007 · Tags: · · 2 Comments

Interview with Andreas Vox, Scribus-developer
While in the background participants to the Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 start saying goodbye to each other, Andreas Vox makes time to sit down with us in the hotel lounge. We want to talk to him about Scribus, the open-source application for professional page layout. Not only as users that [...]

How to catch Ukrainian TV in Moscow

May 15th, 2007 · Tags: · · No Comments

Conversation with Igor Novikov and Valek Philippov (SK1)

Excerpts from a conversation with Igor Novikov (Ukraine) and Valek Philippov (Russia) about how and why they are involved in SK1 pre-press software; the joy of reverse engineering and a handy tip for receiving Russian TV in Ukraine too.
igor_valek.mp3 [25mb]

Interview with George Williams (FontForge)

May 7th, 2007 · Tags: · · 4 Comments

Interview (unedited files) with George Williams, developer of FontForge, the open source font editing tool. Conversation about Shakespeare, Unicode, the pleasure of making beautiful things and pottery. Enjoy!

GW_dl1.mp3 [8.1 mb]
GW_dl2.mp3 [16.6 mb]
…or read the transcription: “I think the ideas behind it are beautiful in my mind“

Tools of the trade

December 11th, 2006 · Tags: · · No Comments

Conversation with Ricardo Lafuente
Ricardo Lafuente looks at the way typography, (open source) tools and design economies feed off and into each other. In a few weeks he will publish his text here for you to download. In the mean time, read a few of the ideas we exchanged by e-mail. Comments are of course more [...]

You need to copy to understand

August 6th, 2006 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

Interview with Harrisson
One of the co-conspirators in this open source adventure is a Brussels graphiste going under the name Harrisson. His interest in open source software flows with the culture of exchange that keeps the off centre music scene alive, as well as with the humanist tradition persistingly present in contemporary typography.
Harrissons’ visual frame of [...]

If the design thinking is correct, the tools should be irrelevant

August 6th, 2006 · Tags: · 1 Comment

Interview with Pedro Amado (TypeForge)
(Type) designer Pedro Amado is amongst many other things initiator of TypeForge, a website dedicated to the development of ‘collaborative type’ with open source tools. While working as design technician at FBAUP, he is about to finish a MA with a paper on collaborative methods for the creation of art and [...]