Conversation with Ricardo Lafuente Ricardo Lafuente looks at the way typography, (open source) tools and design economies feed off and into each other. In a few weeks he will publish his text here for you to download. In the mean time, read a few of the ideas we exchanged by e-mail. Comments are of course […]

The same illustration that got us to post about image scripting, also brought up an interesting discovery plus a feature/plug-in for Inkscape. Detail of illustration for Mute Magazine. Click to view .jpg or download complete zipped .svg file + images Lock layer It is often helpful to lock an object (in this case the glow […]

Well, technically not open-source related… but I think this campaign deserves all designers’ attention. In a nice mock of Apple’s iLife design + writing, Greenpeace reminds us that not all that is wireless comes without footprint. Calling all bloggers, taggers, social bookmarkers and other cool people to the rescue, Greenpeace thinks they might convince Apple […]

As we already mentioned in this blog, Adobe owns many of the (proprietary) tools used by designers nowadays: Indesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and after having acquired Macromedia, it also owns Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, etc. Monopoly rhymes with monoculture. However, Adobe has not always been the enemy of free formats. A recent example being the viewer for […]