NotCourierSans posters have been sent to Anderlues, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bruxelles, Buvrinnes, Cambrai, Chicago, Garden Grove, Gent, Helsinki, Ixelles, JKL, Köln, Merley Wimborne Dorset, Montesson, Munich, Portland, Romrod, Roscoff, Rotterdam, Saint Etienne, Saint-Maurice, Santa Barbara, Sèvres, Singapore, Southampton, Venegazzù, V.N. Gaia, Winton Bournemouth Dorset, Zürich

The Dingbats Liberation Fest adventure continues in Nancy from March 25 to May 6.
Invited by the my.monkey gallery, OSP présentera quelques uns de ses travaux et ouvrira un nouvel atelier Dingbats Liberation Fest into the grid.

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 [...]

Last LGM and its typographic excitements has brought the DIN – Das Ist Norm – Loch Ness project to the surface of the Saint Laurent river again in a discussion with Denis Jacquerye from Deja Vu. Back in Brussels, we meet Denis in the temporary OSP Studio at Rue de la Senne to begin to [...]

The Open Font Library is preparing a brand new site (an idea of what’s in store: http://openfontlibrary.org/wiki) and this sparked off an interesting discussion about terminology. How to name fonts that are made available on the OFL site?

A new version of the impolite NotCourierSans is available on the Open Font Library : NotCourierSans 1.1

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 [...]

Chris Lilley writes: “W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for feedback on a draft charter for a future W3C Font working group or interest group. Please send feedback on the charter to the publicly archived mailing list www-style@w3.org.”
Read his overview [...]

25 April to 31 May, open every weekend from 14:00-18:00
Opening: Friday 24 April 18:00-24:00
Rue de la Senne 17, Brussels

For the opening of a temporary workspace at Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, we have installed the Constant Take Away Archive, a retrospective of books, posters, CD’s and flyers, published by Constant since 1997. It’s a [...]

La Selec is a magazine edited by enthousiasts of La Mediatheque, a public service for renting records, movies, games and so on. Each issue La Selec invites a local artist to produce a poster inspired by their recommended selection of medias. This month it was Harrisson, so was consequently OSP. Here’s the poster we did [...]

As a side effect of the BPI/cinéma du réel festival, OSP has been asked to “perform” the program map in full scale in the Centre Georges Pompidou main hall, where the festival occurs.
The map is a derivative from the printed one, folded into the brochure.
It networks the festival selected movies and the subjective links between [...]

The Libertinage font set we developed for FLOSS+Art book is available on the Open Font Library for several days.
We built Libertinage by copying and pasting parts of Linux Libertine glyphs or simply by all-turning glyphs.
There are 27 variations, one for each latin letter in the alphabet + the ‘Full’ version, containing all modifications.
Un petit goût [...]

A new release of the NotCourier-sans is now available here, with its bold.
The OSP frog, the IJ, ij, numero and trademark ligatures are now encoded in the discretionary ligatures.

← We printed this A1 poster to launch our first free font NotCourier-sans – it explains how it was made and why (and it is also our way of paying homage to FontForge).
If you want to receive a copy, please send an e-mail to: ivan at textzi.net with ‘NotCourier-sans poster’ in the subject header and [...]