The transformer (Marie Neurath) at work
Today a long awaited booklet arrived in the post: The transformer, principles of making Isotype charts written by Robin Kinross & Marie Neurath. It is inspiring in its modest but precise description of unorthodox working methods developed by philosopher, sociologist, and economist Otto Neurath and his associates. To produce ‘pictures [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Out now: The Mag.net reader 3: Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures, edited by Alessandro Ludovico and Nat Muller.
From the introduction:
“a radical change is to be detected between the lines: publishing on paper is not about rigorously selling and distributing content to a specific target readership. It is more a ‘gesture’ that creates a space of intimacy [...]

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 [...]

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 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.

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 [...]

The Institute of Network Cultures published an insightful study on the culture of new media work by Sociologist Rosalind Gill. Technobohemians or the new Cybertariat? New media work in Amsterdam a decade after the web, is based on 40 ’semi-structured’ interviews with practitioners (designers, developers, artists, information architects, …). Her study reveals the often [...]

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 [...]