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A beautiful compliment

February 27th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

“Livre de texte dense, a priori sans soucis de graphisme, et je découvre que c’est tout l’inverse.”1
More pictures: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=30910
“Book of dense text, a priori without concern about graphic design, and I discover that it’s quite the opposite” Ariane Bosshard in: Prix Fernand Baudin: les plus beaux livres à Bruxelles et en Wallonie 2009 [↩]

Exhibition Prix Fernand Baudin

February 8th, 2010 · Tags: · · · No Comments

26 February – 10 March 2010

Exhibition in Brussels presenting the bookawards and nominations of the Fernand Baudin Prize 2009, the prize of the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia.
BIP
Rue Royale, 2-4
1000 Brussels
Opening, award ceremony of the honorary diploma’s + release of the catalogue: 25th of February 2010 at 6 pm

O S P double

January 14th, 2010 · Tags: · · No Comments

Pour le numéro de janvier consacré à la visualisation de données, le magazine français étapes: ouvre une double page à OSP pour notre carte Cinéma du réel 2009.

> voir +

Dingbat Liberation Fest II

December 4th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

Friday December 11
Location: CASCO, Office for Art, Design and Theory Utrecht (NL)
☔ ✈ ❀ ☺ ❍ ✌ ☺ ✈ ❉
Next week, OSP is happy to re-play Dingbat kitchen with students from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design.
“Dingbats have sneaked into most computers nowadays. They’re as much a part of the Unicode Standard as the [...]

☔☺☔ ✈ ❍ ✌

November 16th, 2009 · Tags: · · · No Comments

Thursday Jeudi 26/11
Dingbat Liberation Fest + Populated Fonts
@ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: By Data We Mean
Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels Bruxelles

Friting in Brussels 20 09 2009

September 14th, 2009 · · No Comments

Organised by a little open source minded people crew driven by fixed gear bikes, this Alley Cat Race will occur next sunday in Brussels.

Starts
20/09/09 — 14:00 (day without car)
Rue de la Victoire 96 — 1060 Bxl map
Distribution of spoke cards + checkpoint map
Ends
Place du Jeu de Balle — Aperitive, music, results etc.
Inscription: 3€
Trip:
+/- [...]

Runny technicolor

May 28th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Dans le cadre du festival “Imaginary Property”, OSP vous invite au Novale jeudi 28 mai 2009 à 19 h. Au programme : le jaune interdit et le rouge bientôt libre, un décodage de morceaux de vie montréalais au LGM 2009, une projection vers des formats inconnus et un aperçu de montage vidéo en mode texte [...]

Reportage : day 2

May 8th, 2009 · Tags: · 1 Comment

This foggy fog second day of LGM starts in the run to arrive on time for our talk.
In the middle of the day, Ginger Coons put the fluid into the audience, and his very vigorous talk bring a rare momentum of open and deep discussion at LGM. So just before eating, we have a more [...]

Retrouvailles and Alexandre

May 6th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · 1 Comment

Now that we cross Alexandre-Prokoudine-magic-glue-between-developers again in the corridors of LGM 2009, we’ve been able to physically get pictures taken by him in his sans-fatigue hunt for images at LGM last year! I don’t know if he gimped the files but on the protraits we’re looking like out of a shiny Rock&Folk magazine… (but it’s [...]

Re-Print party: Quatre Quarts II

March 30th, 2009 · Tags: · · · No Comments

Tuesday 31 March 13:00-16:00
Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles
At Open course / Open source, OSP performs a second run of a Print Party that happened almost a year ago at the exact same location. This time we have changed roles to serve you another assorted collection of stories about engineered fonts, [...]

OSP + Open Source / Open Course

March 24th, 2009 · Tags: · 1 Comment

mardi 31 mars 2009 @ ERG, Bruxelles

Open Course / Open Source : une journée d’information et de rencontre sur le logiciel libre dans le domaine de l’art. Présentations, partage d’expériences, print-party and more …
Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles
http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204

OSP full scale in Beaubourg

March 18th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · · · · 4 Comments

OSP full scale in Beaubourg

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 [...]

Edit: Norms, formats and supports

January 25th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

Edit: Norms, formats and supports

5 to 7 March, Bordeaux
We’re preparing a journey to Bordeaux, France where OSP will contribute to the conference Edit: Norms, formats and supports with a workshop and a lecture.
From the conference description:
“Signs and pictograms which organize the flow of movement in cities and towns according to graphic “pie charts” and other diagrams, which serve to [...]

OSP in 75

December 10th, 2008 · Tags: · · No Comments

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.

Views from the kitchen

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

Views from the kitchen

Recorded in FoAM’s Open Kitchen, 15 November 2008.
Sounds (raw!): http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/documents/sound/kitchen
Playlist & credits: conduite.pdf
Images:
Peter Westenberg: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=22398 (Free Art License)
Alex Davies: http://flickr.com/photos/alexdavies/sets/72157609143437321/ (All rights reserved)

Semiotics of the Kitchen Radio (update)

November 12th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · 3 Comments

Semiotics of the Kitchen Radio (update)

Saturday November 15, 15:00 (doors open: 14:30)
Live broadcast from FoAM, Koolmijnenkaai 30-34 Brussels
Listen on-line: http://www.constantvzw.be:8000/kitchen.ogg
Emission en Français + English
Studio audience welcome!
As part of the ongoing series Verbindingen/Jonctions 11, OSP prepares a live radio broadcast in the FoAM Open Kitchen. Experimenting with the displacement of multi sensory experiences, we’ll think out loud about the preparation and [...]

SHMN (Inkboard)

October 26th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Inkboard is an Inkscape extension that allows remote collaboration over the network. In inkscape-devel, there’s a thread where people get all excited over it, and manage to bring down a server as a result
It’s hard not to get overexcited over tools that have collaboration built into them. They give rise to book covers [...]

Tonight: SHMN (update)

October 22nd, 2008 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Tonight: SHMN (update)

The OSP’s have gathered around their respective working tables in Brussels and Barcelona, to prepare Software History Mapping Night, tonight from 20:30 – 22:00 (GMT+1).
For this occasion, Nicolas has created a rudimentary, quick, lo-tech collaborative mapping tool:
http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map
http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/sandbox (crazy layers!)*

Software history mapping night

October 13th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

Wednesday 22 October 20:30-22:00
In a first attempt to draw a collaborative map of the many different tools that together define the practice of digital design, OSP attempts to recollect facts and anecdotes gathered over the last few years.

At Software history mapping night we’ll gather around the table to start a visual cartography of design software. [...]

Radio Luz mixtape

September 12th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

This was the playlist when OSP went on a radio station in Wrocław. A few months after, it’s hard to reconstruct the exact sequence of events that led us there. It was something like this: there was a gig at an alternative space, David met us there, he had helped us set up the pre-LGM [...]

Print, flip, and turn

June 29th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

Print, flip, and turn

At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was very simple Perl.
If you just [...]

Audio + screencast of our intervention at LGM 2008

May 13th, 2008 · Tags: · · 1 Comment

Kaveh Bazargan has patiently recorded the sound and the screen of every interventions at LGM. Here is ours: http://media.river-valley.tv/conferences/lgm2008/quicktime/0103-Harrisson.html. (At the end of the conference, we discovered that Kaveh is a TeX guy for 20 years, so we’ve asked him a few questions. Transcript will come.)

Contributors portrait of the W Drogę typeface

May 12th, 2008 · Tags: · · No Comments

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

A postcard from LGM 2008

May 10th, 2008 · Tags: · No Comments

The end of our participation in the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 is in sight…
Over the last few days we have seen many intriguing, surprising and interesting talks; we discovered new tools, rediscovered ‘old’ ones and made connections with developers, users and standards-officials — LGM has been again an inspiring adventure.
We interviewed Dave [...]

Typeface in the making: W Drogę

May 7th, 2008 · Tags: · · 4 Comments

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 [...]

Print party: OSP Cover Band

May 5th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

We are preparing our print party for tomorrow… Introducing Not Courier Sans (a re-take font), serving Original Covers (a playlist specially prepared for you) plus homemade jiaozi, ravioli and/or pierogi. Join us at 19:00 in Café Mleczarnia, Wroclaw (Poland)!

Road to South-Wrocław

May 5th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

This Wednesday, join us for our type workshop in the OPT cultural center in Wrocław from 11am to ongeveer 6pm. For those who arrive directly from the airport, you can begin with this path then please print this map, because it seem that it is not easy to find for taxi driver (our journey was [...]

En route

May 4th, 2008 · Tags: · No Comments

OSP on it’s way!

Local Universal

April 29th, 2008 · Tags: · · 2 Comments

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 @ LGM 2008

April 22nd, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

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 [...]

Quatre/Quarts: multi track Print Party

April 13th, 2008 · Tags: · · No Comments

more images here: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=13
and here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/…

11 avril: Quatre/Quarts Print Party à l’ERG

April 9th, 2008 · Tags: · · 2 Comments

Info: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=407
Recette: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes
Pour faire une 4/4 Print Party, il faudra:

2 fours électriques
16 œufs
1 kg de beurre
1 kg de sucre blanc fin
1 kg de farine
3 tabliers
1 raclette en caoutchouc (pour racler les plats avec facilité)
1 rouleau de papier cuisson
1 pair de ciseaux
2 cuillères à soupe
4 fourchettes
4 spatules en bois
1 mixeur
2 maniques
1 tamis (pour la farine)
2 fouets [...]

OSP on the Radio

March 27th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

OSP va parler dans le poste
ce mercredi 2 avril,
19:00 – 20:30,
sur radio Panik (il y a du stream), 105.4 fm a Bruxelles.
dans l’émission “le Libre en Questions”
Bonne écoute!

Mixed Sources: Issue Magazine

March 13th, 2008 · Tags: · · No Comments

Issue Magazine launch: Friday March 21 18:00 – 19:30
Log on via: http://mixedsources.tk/
For the launch of Issue Magazine, Stéphanie Vilayphiou and Alexandre Leray are hosting an on line round table with Arie Altena, Jouke Kleerebezem and Harrisson.

OSP parle à l’ERG

March 5th, 2008 · Tags: · 3 Comments

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 [...]

Free Operations / 1

November 23rd, 2007 · Tags: · · No Comments

2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats Typografie

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 [...]

November 15: nm-X

October 14th, 2007 · Tags: · · No Comments

“What we make is often defined by what tools we can use to make it” is the motto of an Open Source Publishing event coming up in London.
OSP will assist Simon Worthington and Laura Oldenburg (Mute) at this event, which is hosted by Central St. Martin’s College of Art and Design.

http://nm-x.com/event/2007/11/open-source-publishing-briefing

November 3: OSP @ Integrated2007

October 8th, 2007 · Tags: · No Comments

On Saturday November 3, OSP will lecture at Integrated2007 “a new vital international design conference taking place in deSingel Antwerp“:
“OSP takes you on a trip into the wonderful universe of Free Software. We will meet alien devices and extraterrestrial tools, previously unknown to the world of graphic design. We like to imagine what would happen [...]

Pancakes & Python

June 18th, 2007 · Tags: · · No Comments

Impressions from Canadian Printing Breakfast in Nepomuk Bar, Brussels. More images in Constants Image Repository.
Special thanks: An, Wendy & Pierre (serving), Ivan (Python), Nurse (records), Peter (pictures), Nicolas (printing), Veronique (City Min(e)d).

Print Party Berlin

September 18th, 2006 · Tags: · · No Comments

A report from the whole day is here: http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/in…

Print Party 2.01 at Université Attac

September 12th, 2006 · Tags: · · 1 Comment

Conditions of production and cultural consumption
After Nicolas gave a brief history of how author rights have developed and how the free software and copyleft movements responded to its increasing restrictive use…

…while trying to be not to grim about the way copyright laws are currently used and abused…

This poster by Act Up (questioning the geneology of [...]

How To Print A Booklet In 19 Easy Steps

June 4th, 2006 · Tags: · 7 Comments

The focus of this recipe is on the last bit: rearranging pages so that you can easily print out nice booklets. For a quick-and-dirty solution you can use Abiword or OpenOffice for the page-lay out part but Scribus is essential when you want to be precise with typography.
The recipe is based on the How-To posted [...]