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please computer | make me design

June 11th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

LG-school — the LGM appetizer — has been the occasion for us (Ivan, Ludi, Steph and Alex) to give a second workshop on fun command-line poster generation. This workshop was intended to introduce graphic designers to a completely different paradigm (the command-line) than the one they are usually used to (the graphical user interface, or even [...]

ABCLGM Typographic Workshop

May 27th, 2010 · Tags: · · · No Comments

The people attending this workshop will learn about one way to dissect the shapes of the latin alphabet, and use this theorical model to make a typeface together in a fast paced design game. The game will involve drawing letters on paper, making use of a real life version control system, and uploading the results [...]

SILEX-LEX: exchanging layers

April 30th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · No Comments

Here are snapshots of SILEX-LEX round 1. Artists, designers and illustrators experimented with Inkscape, a Rhizograph and each other’s layers. Round 2 follows next week in preparation of the vernissage on May 7.

please computer | make me design

April 18th, 2010 · Tags: · · · No Comments

[Full programme] OSP @ Journée Open-Course/Open-Source N’avez-vous jamais rêvé que votre ordinateur fasse tout ce que vous voulez? C’est possible! Osez prendre les commandes de votre ordinateur en participant à cet Open Course/Open Source axé sur le design par le texte. De la monoculture à la diversité logicielle. Un panorama des logiciels libres pour la [...]

Gender Art Net – Folding step

April 12th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · · · · 1 Comment

Gender Art Net poster is now ready for folding. Project presentation and workshop – Berlin – April 16-17 _2010 (more coming) 1000 posters – A2 recto black – verso CMYK 1 plis horizontal – 4 zig zag + 1 roulé

Re-Print party: Quatre Quarts II

March 30th, 2009 · Tags: · · · No Comments

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 [...]

parallel publishing II

March 6th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 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

parallel publishing I

March 5th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

parallel publishing I

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…

Tales of Interrogated Type (Parallel Publishing)

March 2nd, 2009 · Tags: · · No Comments

Tales of Interrogated Type (Parallel Publishing)

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 [...]

Edit: Norms, formats and supports

January 25th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · No Comments

Edit: Norms, formats and supports

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, [...]

OSP in 75

December 10th, 2008 · Tags: · · No Comments

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.

Contributors portrait of the W Drogę typeface

May 12th, 2008 · Tags: · · No Comments

Thanks to Andy Fitzsimon for the picture (in CC full open)!

Road to South-Wrocław

May 5th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

This Wednesday, join us for our type workshop in the OPT cultural center in Wrocław from 11am to ongeveer 6pm. For those who arrive directly from the airport, you can begin with this path then please print this map, because it seem that it is not easy to find for taxi driver (our journey was [...]

Local Universal

April 29th, 2008 · Tags: · · 3 Comments

Wednesday May 7 in Wrocław, Poland Running up to the Libre Graphics meeting 2008, OSP invites designers, programmers and typographers to work on a collaborative design project. Inspired by modular systems for road sign lettering, and a long interest in fonts designed by engineers, we would like to work with you on an impossible project: [...]

Free Operations / 1

November 23rd, 2007 · Tags: · · No Comments

2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats Typografie

Free Operations

November 2nd, 2007 · Tags: · · No Comments

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: