The hard and well documented work of a Dutch Belgian Python artist and designer – Stani – to produce a coin devoted to Dutch contemporary architecture, using only floss. The stroke font he design for it is simply beautiful (currently no info on availability). Via Dave‘s understanding blog.

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 […]

Inkboard is an Inkscape extension that allows remote collaboration over the network. In inkscape-devel, there’s a thread where people get all excited over it, and manage to bring down a server as a result 🙂 It’s hard not to get overexcited over tools that have collaboration built into them. They give rise to book covers […]

Just arrived from the printer: Routes + Routines, a booklet designed by OSP’s Yi Jiang and Ludivine Loiseau documenting Peter Westenberg’s Hasseltse Netwerkwandelingen.

The OSP’s have gathered around their respective working tables in Brussels and Barcelona, to prepare Software History Mapping Night, tonight from 20:30 – 22:00 (GMT+1). For this occasion, Nicolas has created a rudimentary, quick, lo-tech collaborative mapping tool: http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map http://www.ospublish.constantvzw.org/map/sandbox (crazy layers!)*

The FLOSS+Art book (that we proudly were commissioned to design 🙂 ) will be out this thursday at Mute Magazine HQ! Book preview, panel discussion and software party! Don’t miss the opportunity to also check out the Libertinage font set we developed for this book: 26 variations of the Linux Libertine font! Which will be […]

Excellent Brussels based graphic design studio collerettecocofilllsd just released a book called “Le Sale Boulot”, from german Franco-Chilean artist Vladimir Cruells. Main font used is NotCourier we designed. We’re proud! http://collerettecocofilllsd.com/blogblog/

Wednesday 22 October 20:30-22:00 In a first attempt to draw a collaborative map of the many different tools that together define the practice of digital design, OSP attempts to recollect facts and anecdotes gathered over the last few years. At Software history mapping night we’ll gather around the table to start a visual cartography of […]

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 […]

An interview with Michael Terry (ingimp) At the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008 in Wroclaw, just before Michael Terry presents ingimp to an audience of curious Gimp developers and users, we meet up to talk more about ‘instrumenting The Gimp’ and about the way Terry thinks data analysis could be done as a form of discourse. […]

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. […]

This flyer has been done by hand and by gimp with our beloved DJ Atka, to promote a new clubnight: Le Palais Chalet. Palais Chalet first event will be this 24th of October, and is called La Corneille d’Or. Pierre Normal, from pneu record label and Dolina will play live. Atka, DJ Athome and Le […]