Fresh and new for and at OSP.
March 9th, 2010 · Tags: clipart · Digital drawing · Licenses · repository · SVG · vector · No Comments
A brand new version of the Open Clip Art Library just came out!
26175 (and growing) scalable vector graphics, all available under a public domain license: they may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, used, modified, built upon, or otherwise exploited by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial, and in any way, including by methods [...]
March 8th, 2010 · Tags: cartography · No Comments
identi.ca/osp make his best to track our recent activity via our differents IP addresses, where Brussels seems synthetise by 4 positions, here with the background lazy to display, osp frogs above water.
A few minutes later, a new osp -Ivan- connection from Schaerbeek, North of Brussels, strangely shrink the scale by positionning a bright new frog [...]
March 8th, 2010 · Tags: Design Samples · Type · Webdesign · No Comments
5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available in chronological order: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works
March 5th, 2010 · Tags: books · cartography · Digital drawing · Drawing · Handmade · Recipe · No Comments
Last sunday we drawed a book.
675 417 km2 pour Luce
contour lines of France
scale 1:385142
interval : 30 m
strokes : 0.05 pt
16 binded sections
cover : green cardboard 300 g + clothed back
single copy
Sur base des élévations au pas de 250m proposées au téléchargement par l’I.G.N. France. Calcul des courbes de niveaux et sortie Postscript opérés par GRASS [...]
March 5th, 2010 · Tags: LGM 2010 · No Comments
We asked your opinion: Should the logo we proposed for the Libre Graphics Meeting drip or not? 50 readers voted, and yes was selected in total 51 times and no 34 times (more than one answer possible). Apart from that, strong opinions were voiced on- and offline. Interestingly, these often were against the drip. [...]
March 3rd, 2010 · Tags: Print Party · Recipes · 2 Comments
Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a Print Party to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies … how brave! (Recipe for cookies + messages)
March 2nd, 2010 · Tags: LGM 2010 · No Comments
Remember that we entered a subsidy dossier in October 2009?
The Design and Architecture committee of the Flemish ministry for culture has decided to grant our application and support LGM 2010.
Besides the fact that any financial support is more than welcome in hard times like these, it is above all an encouraging expression of support for [...]
February 25th, 2010 · Tags: dingbats · Fontforge · Libre Fonts · Standards + Formats · Unicode · No Comments
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.
February 24th, 2010 · Tags: LGM 2010 · No Comments
Anything else we can do to make you donate a few dollars to LGM2010 ?
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February 22nd, 2010 · Tags: LGM 2010 · 1 Comment
At the yearly Libre Graphics Meeting, developers and users of our favorite tools get together to work on better software. For some of them, a trip to Brussels is easy to fund, others cannot afford the journey without our help. Let’s pull our resources together and raise 10.000 $ (7350 €) so that they can [...]
February 21st, 2010 · Tags: LGM 2010 · No Comments
February 15th, 2010 · Tags: books · context · LaTex · Thoughts + ideas · No Comments
Les organisateurs du Prix Fernand Baudin nous ont demandé de répondre à trois questions concernant le livre, en vue d’intégrer les réponses dans le catalogue en préparation actuellement. Nos réponses sous forme d’extraits traduits en français du texte publié à la fin du livre. (Full version in English)
— Brèves explications du concept/déroulé du livre:
“Making Of” [...]
February 8th, 2010 · Tags: Awards · books · Printing + Publishing · 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
February 8th, 2010 · Tags: LGM 2010 · 1 Comment
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010!
Download flyers: cuttingedge.zip
February 1st, 2010 · Tags: books · Collaborative · Further reading · Printing + Publishing · No Comments
“Collaboration can be so strong it forces hard boundaries. The boundaries can intentionally or unintentionally exclude the possibility to extend the collaboration. Potentially conflict can also occur at these borders”
For this years’ Transmediale Festival, the F/LOSS Manuals project took up the challenge to write, edit and publish a collaborative publication in 5 days while test [...]
January 18th, 2010 · Tags: Webdesign · No Comments
Alexandre Leray and Lauren Grusenmeyer just finished an intense collaboration for the website of the literary platform nY— website en tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement, voorheen yang & freespace Nieuwzuid.
nY-web exists indepently next to the paper edition with it’s own editorial staff, writers categories and settings. While nY is a magazine with a profound literary history it confirms it’s existence as an independent web platform, that is to say — it uses full virtues of publishing online.
January 14th, 2010 · Tags: Inkscape · SVG · 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 +
January 14th, 2010 · · 2 Comments
The Hadopi is a big thing in France. At its origin, a piece of legislation that implements the three strikes model for illegal downloads. You receive three warnings and then you are ‘banned’ from the internet. The authority who is in charge of applying the sanction is the Hadopi. A new logo has been created [...]
December 17th, 2009 · Tags: Awards · context · Scribus · 1 Comment
Tracks in Electr(on)ic Fields, published by Constant and designed by OSP with ConTeXt and Scribus, has been awarded one of 9 prizes for
The Most Beautiful Book of Brussels and Wallonia
✵ ✯ ✵
More about the prize: http://www.prixfernandbaudinprijs.be
About the design and production process (also included in the publication):
The Making Of
Related [...]
November 22nd, 2009 · · No Comments
O S P
Noisettes – Black – Melk
November 20th, 2009 · Tags: dingbats · V/J12 · No Comments
Ludi draws a giant 26FD Unicode dingbat (from the recent 5.2 character additions)
More images: http://gallery.constantvzw.org/main.php?g2_itemId=29200
November 15th, 2009 · Tags: books · context · LaTex · Printing + Publishing · Scribus · 1 Comment
Tuesday Mardi 24/11
Booklaunch: Tracks in electr(on)ic fields
@ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: By Data We Mean
Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels Bruxelles
November 11th, 2009 · Tags: Bug reporting · Recipes · Scribus · 3 Comments
Yi and Femke consider cooking heartless vegan food from now on
We’re correcting the second edition of the Puerto Cookbook (first edition sold out!) and stumble over a trivial but frustrating small bug in Scribus. Maybe too long to explain here (you’re welcome to read our bug report), but it means a lot of scrolling back [...]
November 9th, 2009 · Tags: Digital drawing · Fontforge · In the pipeline · Recipe · Standards + Formats · No Comments
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 [...]
October 1st, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2010 · Watch this thread · 1 Comment
After heated debates, intensive collaborative working sessions and many hesitations, OSP feat. Alexandre Leray finally proposed a new identity for the upcoming Libre Graphics Meeting to the Libre Graphics community.
Since the next meeting will take place in in our home town Brussels, we felt that it was important to at least try to shift [...]
September 18th, 2009 · Tags: animation · SVG · No Comments
Can’t help but re-blog: friend & neighbour Michael Murtaugh is experimenting with SVG animation, using svgweb to make this cat spin
http://automatist.org/blog/?p=139
September 16th, 2009 · Tags: Inkscape · 1 Comment
Install Inkscape 0.47 pre release:
http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/download-inkscape-047-pre-release.html
Wow! This is mind blowing!
To get quadrichromical images from Inkscape, our “rock in the shoe” way is to save vectorial drawing in SVG, and import it in Scribus. To get the right colors, we recompose svg-rgb colors in scribus-cymk. It’s a fastidious work, and limitative, but it works very well. PDF [...]
September 15th, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2010 · No Comments
← This letter proves that we just handed in a dossier at the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sport and Brussels (Vlaamse Gemeenschap). With Constant colleague Peter Westenberg, OSP wrote an application to ask for support for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010. There is only a very small chance that it will make it (LGM is [...]
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:
+/- [...]
September 8th, 2009 · · No Comments
OSP was commissionned to design the Follow The Sound festival image. FTS is a Free Jazz festival occuring in Antwerpen for 36 years.
We did a serie of 4 different posters and 2 flyers (one in Risograph, the other one in offset)
Typography and layout was done by OSP, and we asked RBDX to do colored [...]
September 8th, 2009 · · 1 Comment
Band font for Follow The Sound festival were designed in collaboration with Jean Baptiste Parre from LPDME. It’s remixes of the Avant Garde font, semi bold, in it’s GPL version: URW Gothic, part of the Ghostscript urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44 package. Valek Filippov version with cyrillics can be downloaded here.
2 fonts were designed: Whisky Jazz and Distilled Spirit, [...]
September 8th, 2009 · · No Comments
If you want to dance on the 26/09, here is the place!
Mamma Roma are 3 pizzerias in Brussels. Collerettecocofilllsd designed a logo, OSP adapted it for a flyer and poster. This caracter will be declined on the pizza delivery boxes. Done in Inkscape.
August 7th, 2009 · Tags: Gimp · Patents · No Comments
Found on the developper’s website:
The image mosaic plug-in for the GIMP is no longer supported or distributed. Mr. Robert Silvers, the holder of a patent related to the technology that was used in the plug-in, argued that the software would directly infringe his patent rights. It is not clear if the patent is applicable in [...]
July 27th, 2009 · Tags: Drawing · Inkscape · SVG · 6 Comments
After the release of our Puerto Livre de Cuisine Kookboek, all the drawings and illustrations now are available as clipart on Open Clip Art Library.
Thanks to nitrofurano: download all files in one go with wget!
Download script and run from the commandline with: $ bash kitchenclipart.sh
Let’s cook together
July 14th, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2010 · 1 Comment
27 – 30 May 2010 in De Pianofabriek, Brussels
Still nearly 9 months to go, but preparations for a next edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting in Brussels have started.
In our quest for the ultimate LGM 2010 venue, we checked out many potential spaces, but finally settled for De Pianofabriek [...]
July 7th, 2009 · Tags: Colors · filtering · 5 Comments
“Green Dam Youth Escort (绿坝·花季护航: Lǜbà·Huājì Hùháng) recognizes pornographic images by analyzing skin-coloured regions, causing the barring of this image of pink color pigs.”
The Chinese government has mandated that, beginning July 1, every PC sold in China must include a censorship program called Green Dam. This software is designed to monitor Internet connections and text [...]
June 22nd, 2009 · Tags: Drawing · Printing + Publishing · Recipes · Scribus · 1 Comment
22 June, 16:00 @ Puerto, Varkensmarkt 23, Brussels
Join us this afternoon for the long awaited festive launch of the Puerto Livre de Cuisine Kookboek: 70 delicious recipes, written, translated (Dutch and French) and illustrated in collaboration with the inhabitants of Puerto. Puerto is an organisation working from the center of Brussels, where they generously [...]
June 11th, 2009 · Tags: Conference · Free Software Community · LGM 2010 · 2 Comments
[en français, voir ci-dessous]
Next spring, the fifth Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) will take place in Brussels, Belgium. In May 2010, users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source creative software gather in the European capital for the collective sharing of creativity, innovation and ideas.
June 7th, 2009 · Tags: Music · Party · Type · No Comments
Pierre Normal (pneu) and The Dreams en tournee.
16 June – Strasbourg, Le Troc Café, Rue du Faubourg de Saverne
17 June – Zürich, Kalki, Kalkbreitenstrasse (Palais Chalet)
18 June – Lausanne, Espace Autogéré
19 June – Stuttgart, Club für Flüssigkeiten & Schwingungen
20 June – Genève, L’Ecurie, (Palais Chalet)
21 June – Luzern, tbc
22 June – Genève, Duplex, 波(なみ) [...]
June 5th, 2009 · Tags: Awards · Libre Fonts · Printing + Publishing · Scribus · 14 Comments
Yesterday OSP received a Plantin-Moretus prize 2009 for best designed book in the category non fiction. The jury about Cross-over: “It was love at first sight“. The book, published by BAM and Lannoo and edited by Liesbeth Huybregts, uses Libre Fonts and is produced with Scribus and many other F/LOSS tools. We think it is [...]
June 4th, 2009 · · No Comments
May 30th, 2009 · Tags: Digital drawing · Reading list · No Comments
I’m in Stuttgart for a week to teach a workshop. In the school library, I read Eye Magazine.
May 28th, 2009 · Tags: Collaborative · Colors · LGM 2009 · Standards + Formats · 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 [...]
May 21st, 2009 · Tags: Archiving · Handmade · Scribus · Thoughts + ideas · 1 Comment
These days i’m in Malmö for The Art of the Overhead festival.
For some years now, this art festival has done media archeology about the overhead projector. There was a workshop/space this week, there will be performances this weekend, there will be a psychedelic closing party next weekend, etc.
We’re happy to see that the print for [...]
May 20th, 2009 · Tags: Conference · Printing + Publishing · Report · Rotterdam · 1 Comment
Notes from print/pixel
Last week, OSP attended the print/pixel conference in Rotterdam, a two day event gathering publishers, designers, marketeers and document engineers to look at the ever shifting relation between digital and paper publishing.1
For an integral report, see blog-posts by Jouke Kleerebezem and Arie Altena here: http://blog.wdka.nl/communication-in-a-digital-age. Our notes are fragmentary.
The organisers kindly supported our [...]
May 19th, 2009 · Tags: Drawing · LGM 2009 · pocket book · No Comments
on the way back from LGM Montréal – Trudeau airport. Sonore version will be coming soon…
May 19th, 2009 · Tags: Cooking · Drawing · Recipes · No Comments
May 18th, 2009 · Tags: Music · No Comments
Our camarades are back. This time in The Netherlands.
May 17th, 2009 · Tags: Libre Fonts · Not-Courier sans · Type · 2 Comments
A new version of the impolite NotCourierSans is available on the Open Font Library : NotCourierSans 1.1
May 16th, 2009 · Tags: Music · Party · No Comments
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 [...]
May 10th, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2009 · No Comments
1. The show must go on.
2. The slides are not the content.
3. I try not to open a terminal in front of people.
4. It’s the engineers who are responsible for the bugs and explosions.
5. The preferences are the graveyard of any good idea.
6. The more links an architect got on the internet, the greater the [...]
May 8th, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2009 · 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 [...]
May 6th, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2009 · No Comments
LGM Montreal 2009.
OSP reporting has started.
Here are the first pictures.
May 6th, 2009 · Tags: LGM 2009 · 3 Comments
May 5th, 2009 · Tags: Not-Courier sans · Webdesign · Website · No Comments
4 + ½ OSP’s are on their way to Montreal, Canada where they will participate in the Libre Graphics Meeting from 6-9 May (expect more news as soon as they land). Next Saturday May 9, a special session of Open Source Open Course in the context of Journées du Libre with amongst others Michel Cleempoel, [...]
April 30th, 2009 · Tags: Drawing · LGM · Paper · Planning · No Comments
The preparation of LGP 2009 Montreal is on his way (OSP is very excited!) and the LGM website offers this fine view of the planning exercice for the talks. Beautiful way of showing the still open program.
April 24th, 2009 · Tags: Archiving · Constant Verlag · Not-Courier sans · Printing + Publishing · 1 Comment
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 [...]
April 20th, 2009 · Tags: Conference · LaTex · Printing + Publishing · Tools · 1 Comment
(forwarded from the research programme Communication in a digital age, Rotterdam)
PRINT/PIXEL
International conference on the shifting relation between online and print publishing
Tuesday-Wednesday 12-13 May 2009 | 12-17:00 (public sessions), 20-22:00 (professional sessions)
The conference investigates the shifting relationship between online and print publishing. Both can no longer be separated, but complement each other. Yet few advanced comprehensive [...]
April 16th, 2009 · Tags: Interview · Standards + Formats · Webdesign · No Comments
Under the ambitious title ‘Jeffrey Zeldman Discusses the Future of Open Source‘ (filed under: ‘The Internet’), the CSS guru compares the use of Open Source Content Management Systems to what webstandards did for the web. Looking forward to hear more… and will he mention SVG?
Excerpt from a longer interview, soon available here too: http://bigthink.com/ideas/jeff-zeldman-discusses-the-future-of-open-source
sorry, only [...]
April 3rd, 2009 · Tags: Berlin · Collaborative · Inkscape · SVG · Web · Website · 2 Comments
OSP participe actuellement au développement du projet Gender Art Net.
Gender Art Net propose de créer un atlas interactif donnant accès à différentes vues et lectures d’un ensemble de positions artistiques feministes dans l’Europe contemporaine.
April 1st, 2009 · Tags: Colors · Licenses · Watch this thread · 4 Comments
From the CBUD-mailinglist:
Subject: RE: FW: Licensee Application
From: “DUURKOOP, JULIA”
Date: Wed, 1 April 2009 11:20:25 -0400
To: “Daniel Fary”
Dear Daniel:
Thank you for your inquiries and follow-up e-mails. After consulting with executives, engineers and lawyers at the Company, we have decided to insert a series of gray tones to the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM. The Company has [...]
March 29th, 2009 · Tags: Inkscape · Not-Courier sans · Printing + Publishing · Scribus · No Comments
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 [...]
March 24th, 2009 · Tags: Print Party · 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
March 22nd, 2009 · Tags: Inkscape · Not-Courier sans · 3 Comments
The association “Jazz in Antwerpen” asked us to do the visual of their concert agenda.
We proposed this black and red Not-Courier logo.
In good jazz magazines this month
March 18th, 2009 · Tags: Culture of work · Design philosopy · DIN · Inkscape · Libre Fonts · Map · Tools · Type · 4 Comments
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 [...]
March 18th, 2009 · Tags: Awards · CAUTION: Proprietary software(s) used! · Music · 2 Comments
Felix Kubin writes:
“As an antidote to globalisation, Ich Bin suggest local megalomania: Mulhouse for capital! ‘Avec le Gewuerz et le Schnaps.’
The record was designed by the talented Monsieur Harrisson, a French refugee now residing in Brussels (…)”
So, OSP makes an exception for Harissons’ *last ever* design in proprietary software: we’re proud to announce that [...]
March 11th, 2009 · · No Comments
le 13 mars Palais Chalet
- griffes de velours -
avec
en concert :
Nora Düster de Zurich
The Dreams de Strasbourg
un live de :
Maison Concett de Milano
et aux platines : Athome, Atka, Caniche Noir, Diamant T.
cocktails au Sailor’s Trap Bar
début : 20h30 toujours aussi scherp !
Compilothèque, Quai des péniches 50, BXL
March 10th, 2009 · · 1 Comment
Monday 24 March 2009
Ada Lovelace Day
“I will publish a blog post on Tuesday 24th March about a woman in technology whom I admire but only if 1,000 other people will do the same.”
http://www.promessotheque.com/AdaLovelaceDay
Friday 27 March 2009
Thank A Developer Day
“The general idea is to appreciate the creators behind your favorite Free Software application or/and component (preferred [...]
March 9th, 2009 · Tags: Type · 1 Comment
03.03.2009 18:39 @ Chaussée de Waterloo / Porte de Hal, Brussels (sighted by Wendy):
http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/
March 6th, 2009 · Tags: Education · Printing + Publishing · Standards + Formats · Workshops + teaching · No Comments
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
March 5th, 2009 · Tags: Education · Handmade · Standards + Formats · Workshops + teaching · 1 Comment
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…
March 2nd, 2009 · Tags: Standards + Formats · Workshops + teaching · No Comments
View Larger Map
OSP is preparing for a long drive: Pierre, Yi, Ivan and Femke leave Brussels Tuesday morning to be later joined by another Pierre (our special guest), Harrisson and Ludivine (now in Paris producing a tape/vinyl version of their worldmap for Cinéma du Réel), in Bordeaux. There we’ll meet an interdisciplinary team of students [...]
February 19th, 2009 · Tags: Libre Fonts · Not-Courier sans · Presentations · Printing + Publishing · Scribus · Type · 1 Comment
Enfin! FLOSS+Art Book is Launched!
Damn it looks good!
February 12th, 2009 · Tags: Contribute! · History · Thoughts + ideas · Tools · Usability links · No Comments
(Call forwarded from Isabelle Massu)
+ + + + + + + + + + + +
Museums narrate the history of man’s evolution through the display of tools (silex, knife, jar, etc.). In contrast, we are looking for useless tools. This call will result in a vitrine of objects titled ‘Object Inutile’ to be displayed at [...]
February 1st, 2009 · Tags: Design Samples · Digital drawing · Digitalisation · Gimp · Radio · No Comments
Our friend and Dj Athome just recieved a new logotype for his inspiring radioshow. We asked artist ROGER3000 to do calligraphy for. Rough, spontaneous and good style Digitalisation using XSane Image Scanner, and image correction in Gimp.
BIS-ARTSHAKER is being played by DJ ATHOME aka HOPHEAD and guests every wednesday 20:30-22:00 at Radio [...]
January 25th, 2009 · Tags: DIN · Standards + Formats · Tools · Workshops + teaching · No Comments
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 [...]
January 5th, 2009 · Tags: Font · Fontforge · Libre Fonts · Release · Type · 1 Comment
We’re currently working on a poster for the support comittees for the nine people accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”. They were arrested the 11th of november 2008, in France, and 2 of them are still in jail.
They and others are the victims of a witch-hunt in which the word [...]
January 2nd, 2009 · Tags: Music · 1 Comment
16 Janvier
Liège, Belgium
Palais Châlet
spécial de soutien
- Révérberations Touchantes -
With
Live
Bruno Coeurvert
Pierre Normal
Dj’s
JB from Paris, Athome, Atka, Le Caniche Noir, Le Diamant Tendre
20h, Rue chauve-souris 62, Liège, 2 euros.
Feel welcome to spend this lovely, romantic and supporting night. Where OSP crew meet, where they party, where they hear their favorite music, and where they they dance. [...]
January 2nd, 2009 · Tags: Printing + Publishing · No Comments
“The Fernand Baudin Prize” has been initiated by several graphic artists-teachers who work in the book world. The prize is supported by Brussels-Export. The principle aim of this initiative is to encourage the creation of the contemporary book in the Brussels-Capital region by honouring the most beautiful books. It is also intended to bring this [...]
January 2nd, 2009 · · 1 Comment
December 29th, 2008 · Tags: Manual · Scribus · No Comments
Just out and hopefully in the post soon: The Official Scribus Manual! For less than 30 euros, we ordered ourselves 438 pages of printed documentation, examples and other invaluable info. And at least €12 from each copy goes towards the Scribus project.
Get yours here:
http://www.flesbooks.com/scribus1.3manual/
December 15th, 2008 · Tags: Colors · Licenses · Patents · No Comments
Qu’attend-on pour libérer le magenta ? A very good article by Pascal Riché on the website of rue89 on how the trademark law makes it possible for companies to own a color for a specific commercial field.
Autrement dit, si vous voulez repeindre votre maison en magenta (appelé ainsi à cause de la bataille du même [...]
December 1st, 2008 · Tags: accessibility · Standards + Formats · No Comments
(a postcard from Vienna)
Wishing you (OpenOffice, Ubuntu, Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Debian, Scribus, Creative Commons, One Laptop per Child, Open Clip Art, DejaVu project, Open Font Library or any other F/LOSS or Open Content project) were here, at the European Ministerial e-Inclusion Conference …
November 19th, 2008 · Tags: Design philosopy · Education · Standards + Formats · No Comments
Ever considered applying as researcher for the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht (NL)?
Extrastatecraft, a project led by Keller Easterling asks interesting questions about the relation between protocol and practice. The JvE offers great facilities (including financial support) for extra-academic research and with the appointment of Florian Schneider as ‘advising researcher’, the design department might [...]
November 12th, 2008 · Tags: Command Line · Cooking · Culture of work · Radio · 3 Comments
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 [...]
November 6th, 2008 · Tags: Cooking · Handmade · Printing + Publishing · Recipe · Teaching · Tools · Type · No Comments
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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November 2nd, 2008 · Tags: Fontforge · Libre Fonts · Type · 2 Comments
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 [...]
October 31st, 2008 · Tags: stroke font · No Comments
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.
October 22nd, 2008 · Tags: History · Inkscape · SVG · Tools · 1 Comment
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!)*
October 19th, 2008 · · 2 Comments
The FLOSS+Art book (that we proudly were commissioned to design ) will be out this thursday at Mute Magazine HQ!
Book preview, panel discussion and software party!
Don’t miss the opportunity to also check out the Libertinage font set we developed for this book: 26 variations of the Linux Libertine font! Which will be available [...]
October 8th, 2008 · Tags: Culture of work · Type · 3 Comments
Hi, OSP.
I found you on Open Font Library. I am building a website containing webmasters resources, and I’d like to have 3 original exclusive fonts that I can give away to members who join my site.
I’d like to pay you to create 3 original fonts – are you willing?
If you have 3 old fonts on [...]
October 5th, 2008 · Tags: Gimp · Music · No Comments
This flyer has been done by hand and by gimp with our beloved DJ Atka, to promote a new clubnight: Le Palais Chalet.
Palais Chalet first event will be this 24th of October, and is called La Corneille d’Or. Pierre Normal, from pneu record label and Dolina will play live. Atka, DJ Athome and Le [...]
September 8th, 2008 · Tags: In the pipeline · Under development · Website · 10 Comments
It’s rentrée day at OSP and we’re shaking our website. The future hours days will show some chaos on pages and categories and html renderings…
September 3rd, 2008 · Tags: sK1 · No Comments
With a staggering 1463 points (runners up Typo3 and OpenLieroX ended on respectively 1269 and 572 points), the Open Source prepress project SK1 has well deserved it’s ticket to the upcoming Hackontest event in Zurich, 25-26 September.
We’re very happy to hear that the sK1 team will have a chance to demonstrate their enthusiasm for Libre [...]
August 12th, 2008 · Tags: Thoughts + ideas · 1 Comment
Bob Sutor, Vice President of Standards and Open Source at Industrial Business Machines, sees no alternative to Linux in the next 10 years. But there is a need of more graphic designers to help with design.
Link
July 13th, 2008 · Tags: Free Software Community · No Comments
Planet Open Fonts
“Planet Open Fonts is a window into the lives and work of people forming the open font community” writes Nicolas Spalinger in the editorial of this very useful aggregration page, and OSP is proud to be included: http://planet.open-fonts.org/
Create @ f.d.o.
Another useful collection of feeds is at http://create.freedesktop.org/ bringing news from projects connected to [...]
June 30th, 2008 · Tags: In the pipeline · Printing + Publishing · Python · 1 Comment
For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter API in a printed job and a catalogue for the Piet Zwart Institute’s Media design graduation show formed the perfect excuse.
June 18th, 2008 · Tags: Print Party · 1 Comment
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vendredi le 27 juin 2008
OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de sa première fonte en licence libre: la NotCourier-sans.
Nous serions ravis de vous retrouver autour d’un live lay-out, des Jiaozi/Pierogi et de quelques surprises (polonaises) lors de cette Print Party qui aura lieu à:
La Compilothèque
vendredi le 27 juin 2008 à 20h00
50, Quai [...]