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/

Among the 100 people involved in the creation and realisation of this poster, OSP.
2 of them are hidden in the picture (free poster for the one who spot them) and 3 other helped the setup…
This poster was done during the first year graphic design course at ERG, Brussels.
This course has been commissionned by Radio Panik [...]

Doing a partition on my computer forced me to cynically erase all my data. Since Mac OSX Tiger did not provide any kind of Bootcamp assistant (it was exclusively held for Leopard) and executing partitions through the Terminal was not really pleased by my system, I was forced to reinstall my whole system… un bouleversement qui est inévitable.

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…

OSP is invited for a workshop day at 75 school, in Woluwe, Brussels.
Wednesday 17 December.
Music playlisting, video browsing, recipes printing, font remixing and pancake making.

Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter à la présentation du livre collectif :
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Vomit’ can ich i’neun dî’neun?
en quoi puis-je vous etre utile?
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qui accompagne l’exposition
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The hard and well documented work of a Dutch Belgian Python artist and designer – Stani – to produce a coin devoted to Dutch contemporary architecture, using only floss. The stroke font he design for it is simply beautiful (currently no info on availability). Via Dave’s understanding blog.

Thanks to Andy Fitzsimon for the picture (in CC full open)!

David Bargenda’s photos: http://flickr.com/photos/opt-art/tags/opensourcepublishing/

With a group of 20 courageous participants and the help of open type activists Dave Crossland, Alexandre Prokoudine and Nicolas Spalinger we are using Inkscape, Gimp and FontForge to produce a typeface in a day. We have named it W Drogę (On Our Way, En Route in Polish) and it should be [...]

Wednesday May 7 in Wrocław, Poland
Running up to the Libre Graphics meeting 2008, OSP invites designers, programmers and typographers to work on a collaborative design project. Inspired by modular systems for road sign lettering, and a long interest in fonts designed by engineers, we would like to work with you on an impossible project: to [...]

OSP is preparing for a hectic week in Wrocław, Poland (3 t/m 11 May). At this years Libre Graphics Meeting we give a one day workshop in Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych (Creative Arts centre), perform a Print Party and present our work. The LGM program is packed with talks and we’ll hopefully record a few [...]

Répondant à l’invitation du cours de Typographie de Mme M.C. Lambert, OSP présentera des outils open source s’inscrivant dans la chaine graphique. Cette petite conférence abordera les problématiques de la typographie ouverte, ainsi qu’une présentation de nos recherches en fontes publiques, comme le DIN Project.
Cela se passera ce vendredi 7 mars 2008
à l’ERG, Ecole de [...]

2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats Typografie

Due to my recent task of teaching typography, I was looking around for courses and experiences in that domain. This drove me to Ellen Lupton’s website, teacher at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA): www.designwritingresearch.org. There, in an impressive generosity, you can consult her current syllabi and exercices of hight quality courses.
She’s is also a [...]

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 [...]