Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a Print Party to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies … how brave! (Recipe for cookies + messages)

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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 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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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June 27, 19:00 20:00 @ Compilothèque* Polish Print Party With: launch of NotCourier-sans, OSP FAQ, live lay-out, Jiaozi/Pierogi and more. *50 Quai des Péniches 1000 Brussels

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)!

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 more [...]

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

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 [...]

Thanks to ERG and Marc Wathieu, OSP will perform friday 11th of April, during Open Course event. http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1138 OSP Print Party 11/04 14:00 – 17:00 Erg (École de Recherche Graphique) 87, rue du page – 1050 Bruxelles. Supposed to be open to the public. In French, but multi-lingual pluggin installed.

2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats Typografie

2 day workshop Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (20 + 21 November, 2007) What permutations between typeface, typesetting and text can you imagine? How to design through scripting and can you read differently with computer manipulations? Full brief:

PubliActie @ Boekenbeurs Antwerpen Inspired by the legacy of Cornelius Kiliaan, inventor of the first Dutch dictionary, Marthe van Dessel and Wendy van Wynsberghe look for neologisms and definitions in search of a word. Using Free Software and Free Licenses, the result will be an open source lexicon taking into account our daily feelings, experiences [...]

OSP visits Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (The Netherlands) to discuss a two-day workshop on Free Fonts with Anniek Brattinga and Karel Martens. http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org

Frog and Prince is a fairytale featuring free software, python scripting and an open font. The story was premièred at LGM 2007 (Montréal, Canada), and formed the centerpiece of the Canadian Printing Breakfast (Brussels, June 2007). Below is everything you need to make the recipe, but you can also browse through sample documents for each [...]

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).

Samedi 16 Juin Nepomuk Bar – City Mine(d) – Rue Saint-Jean Nepomucen, 17, Bruxel Click here for English Open Source Publishing est fier de vous inviter à son petit-déjeuner canadien, où vous seront servies leurs dernières aventures dans le monde des Logiciels Libres. Au menu: mise en page animée d’un conte de fée, programmeur chercheur [...]

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

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 [...]

Wednesday September 13, 10:00 – 20:00 Tesla, Klosterstraße 68-70, Berlin http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2806 Workshop Organised by Cornelia Sollfrank and Nicolas Malevé Printing Party by Harrisson & Pierre Huyghbaert FREEdom and OPENness – anything but marketing and ideology? Sharing, really? Culture from and for the Commons. One day before WOS4, an international group of artists, programmers and theoreticians [...]

Souvenirs / Greetings from the Print Party!

Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a Quarantaine pour une bonne Print Party! Ce sera a 16:00, et ca durera jusque peut-etre 20:00. Ca sera en français avec accent, (et bequilles en anglais et en néerlandais), mené par la Constant Printing + Cooking Team. Ou l’on apprendra comment mettre en page, imposer et imprimer un booklet avec [...]

Friday July 7 16:00: Printing Party at Quarantaine (Brussels), with Scribus get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails. More details in a few days! Find more P s with open content license at: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv (Advanced search > Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos)

At this years’ edition of Digitales, we tested out a recipe for producing booklets, using texts with open licenses that are available on line. The recipe was an excuse to discuss the relation between software and design, why it would be interesting for designers/publishers to consider using FLOSS tools and what the problems might be.

Production line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing and binding of The Continuous Present On May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into the possible futures of reading, [...]