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 [...]

Designing with TeX: episode III
Thanks to the super active ConTeXt mailinglist, we are finally able to load our own fonts! And of course, once we know how, we are almost disappointed that it is so easy to do.
if you compile this file:
\definetypeface[Libertinage][rm][Xserif][Libertinage]
\setupbodyfont[Libertinage, 24pt]
\starttext
\input knuth
\stoptext
with this command:
texexec –xtx fontsample.tex
you end up with this.

Un petit livre de cuisine en préparation… il s’agit un livret de recettes créées par les habitants de chez Puerto. Une association qui offre un soutien aux personnes qui sont en difficulté entre autres en leur proposant un repas équilibré à prix réduit. 3  services (entrée | plat | dessert)  pour moins de 4 euro [...]

Designing with TeX: episode II
“Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that specify the logical structure of a document“. If only we had sooner understood that user here is writer, not designer, we might have given up earlier. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2 goes on to explain: “They almost never need [...]

Designing with TeX: episode I
OSP is currently working on a book containing essays, interviews and images following from the Constant festival/seminar Tracks in electronic fields and we are laying it out in LaTeX!
LaTeX is a tool developed in the context of academic publishing, specifically for technical or scientific documents. It combines markup à la CSS [...]

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…

We’re currently finishing the layout of a new book: FLOSS+Art
Here is a preview of the cover, designed with Inkscape using the “clone tile” function. Font is Not-Courier Sans…

FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic myths and [...]

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.

With 9 Media Design students graduating this summer from the Piet Zwart Institute, OSP’s Harrisson is busy producing 500 different books – all in Free Software of course. The books contain essays, images, project documentation and typographic experiments and will be printed using the Mute POD system.
Image: Inkscape Clone Tile Color Randomization plus Align and [...]