5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available in chronological order: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works

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

1. Unlimited Use License
Judging from the mysql errors flying around, the Open Records Generator software developed by David Reinfurt, is not actively maintained at the moment. Still, this GPL licensed software presents an interesting mix of buyers and users: “The buyer receives full rights to modify and reuse the software for future applications” (found [...]

Last LGM and its typographic excitements has brought the DIN – Das Ist Norm – Loch Ness project to the surface of the Saint Laurent river again in a discussion with Denis Jacquerye from Deja Vu. Back in Brussels, we meet Denis in the temporary OSP Studio at Rue de la Senne to begin to [...]

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) [...]

A new version of the impolite NotCourierSans is available on the Open Font Library : NotCourierSans 1.1

Chris Lilley writes: “W3C is collecting ideas for work related to downloadable fonts on the Web. This email summarizes the current situation, and asks for feedback on a draft charter for a future W3C Font working group or interest group. Please send feedback on the charter to the publicly archived mailing list www-style@w3.org.”
Read his overview [...]

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 [...]

03.03.2009 18:39 @ Chaussée de Waterloo / Porte de Hal, Brussels (sighted by Wendy):

http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/

“With the written word an absolute fundamental component of daily communication, typography and fonts are vital to providing aesthetic harmony and legibility to our textual works. There are thousands of fonts available, of which only a small number are useful or any good for setting vast quantities of text, and of which an even smaller [...]

Enfin! FLOSS+Art Book is Launched!
Damn it looks good!

The FLOSS+Art book is finally rolling off the print-on-demand press and in the spirit of the kinds of practices described in the book, GOTO10 distributes our ’source files’ as a bittorrent:1
Rather than just providing a “free” PDF, FLOSS+Art.v1.1.eBook-GOTO10 is also available and contains all the Fonts, Images, PDF and Scribus source files that were used [...]

Lots of work going on the OSP Studio.
Here are few of our recent production:
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Logo for
Le Vecteur
Cultural space in Charleroi city

Button version:

This logo that can be adapted in multiform patterns:

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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 [...]

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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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 [...]

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 [...]

For everyone (like me) who keeps re-reading the 1992 edition of Robin Kinross’ Modern Typography: an essay in critical history… his revised edition (published in 2004) ends in an interestingly different way*:
“The phrase ‘democratization of typography’ has become common, referring to the wide availability of the tools of production for type and typographic design. One [...]

During the Polish Print Party, a scene performed silently behind the bar counter…
they are about :
=== FIGlet ==============================

Go to Synaptic to install the Figlet package
Find the pre-installed fonts: /usr/share/figlet
To add more fonts: /usr/share/figlet (That is for all users. Otherwise, you have to put the new fonts in a directory of your choice by indicated with [...]

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 [...]