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May 2009

A Postcard from Stuttgart

May 30th, 2009 · Tags: · · Comments Off on A Postcard from Stuttgart

I’m in Stuttgart for a week to teach a workshop. In the school library, I read Eye Magazine.

Runny technicolor

May 28th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Dans le cadre du festival “Imaginary Property”, OSP vous invite au Novale jeudi 28 mai 2009 à 19 h. Au programme : le jaune interdit et le rouge bientôt libre, un décodage de morceaux de vie montréalais au LGM 2009, une projection vers des formats inconnus et un aperçu de montage vidéo en mode texte […]

Les enfants du transparent

May 21st, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

These days i’m in Malmö for The Art of the Overhead festival. For some years now, this art festival has done media archeology about the overhead projector. There was a workshop/space this week, there will be performances this weekend, there will be a psychedelic closing party next weekend, etc. We’re happy to see that the […]

Conversion is costly

May 20th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Notes from print/pixel Last week, OSP attended the print/pixel conference in Rotterdam, a two day event gathering publishers, designers, marketeers and document engineers to look at the ever shifting relation between digital and paper publishing.1 For an integral report, see blog-posts by Jouke Kleerebezem and Arie Altena here: http://blog.wdka.nl/communication-in-a-digital-age. Our notes are fragmentary. The organisers […]

interview at the airport

May 19th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on interview at the airport

on the way back from LGM Montréal – Trudeau airport. Sonore version will be coming soon…

seamful

May 19th, 2009 · Tags: · Comments Off on seamful

“Open Source doesn’t mean free access, nor open space or open air; it presumes a seamful approach to design as a response to the increasing reliance on technology and its accessibility” http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/research_2009.html…

Puerto Kookboek in progress

May 19th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Puerto Kookboek in progress

Palais Chalet Maastricht

May 18th, 2009 · Tags: · Comments Off on Palais Chalet Maastricht

Our camarades are back. This time in The Netherlands.

Update your NotCourier !

May 17th, 2009 · Tags: · · · 2 Comments

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

Panik Party

May 16th, 2009 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Panik Party

Among the 100 people involved in the creation and realisation of this poster, OSP. 2 of them are hidden in the picture (free poster for the one who spot them) and 3 other helped the setup… This poster was done during the first year graphic design course at ERG, Brussels. This course has been commissionned […]

New work on Fonts at W3C

May 13th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on New work on Fonts at W3C

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 […]

lgm top nine

May 10th, 2009 · Tags: · Comments Off on lgm top nine

1. The show must go on. 2. The slides are not the content. 3. I try not to open a terminal in front of people. 4. It’s the engineers who are responsible for the bugs and explosions. 5. The preferences are the graveyard of any good idea. 6. The more links an architect got on […]

Reportage : day 2

May 8th, 2009 · Tags: · 1 Comment

This foggy fog second day of LGM starts in the run to arrive on time for our talk. In the middle of the day, Ginger Coons put the fluid into the audience, and his very vigorous talk bring a rare momentum of open and deep discussion at LGM. So just before eating, we have a […]

Retrouvailles and Alexandre

May 6th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · 1 Comment

Now that we cross Alexandre-Prokoudine-magic-glue-between-developers again in the corridors of LGM 2009, we’ve been able to physically get pictures taken by him in his sans-fatigue hunt for images at LGM last year! I don’t know if he gimped the files but on the protraits we’re looking like out of a shiny Rock&Folk magazine… (but it’s […]

on the ground

May 6th, 2009 · Tags: · Comments Off on on the ground

LGM Montreal 2009. OSP reporting has started. Here are the first pictures.

wish you were here at lgm

May 6th, 2009 · Tags: · 3 Comments

yes, a busy month

May 5th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on yes, a busy month

4 + ½ OSP’s are on their way to Montreal, Canada where they will participate in the Libre Graphics Meeting from 6-9 May (expect more news as soon as they land). Next Saturday May 9, a special session of Open Source Open Course in the context of Journées du Libre with amongst others Michel Cleempoel, […]