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September 2009

Spinning SVG

September 18th, 2009 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Spinning SVG

Can’t help but re-blog: friend & neighbour Michael Murtaugh is experimenting with SVG animation, using svgweb to make this cat spin 🙂 http://automatist.org/blog/?p=139

0.47 in 47 sec

September 16th, 2009 · Tags: · 1 Comment

Install Inkscape 0.47 pre release: http://webupd8.blogspot.com/2009/06/download-inkscape-047-pre-release.html Wow! This is mind blowing! To get quadrichromical images from Inkscape, our “rock in the shoe” way is to save vectorial drawing in SVG, and import it in Scribus. To get the right colors, we recompose svg-rgb colors in scribus-cymk. It’s a fastidious work, and limitative, but it works […]

Keep Your Fingers Crossed

September 15th, 2009 · Tags: · Comments Off on Keep Your Fingers Crossed

← This letter proves that we just handed in a dossier at the Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sport and Brussels (Vlaamse Gemeenschap). With Constant colleague Peter Westenberg, OSP wrote an application to ask for support for the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010. There is only a very small chance that it will make it (LGM is […]

Friting in Brussels 20 09 2009

September 14th, 2009 · · Comments Off on Friting in Brussels 20 09 2009

Organised by a little open source minded people crew driven by fixed gear bikes, this Alley Cat Race will occur next sunday in Brussels. Starts 20/09/09 — 14:00 (day without car) Rue de la Victoire 96 — 1060 Bxl map Distribution of spoke cards + checkpoint map Ends Place du Jeu de Balle — Aperitive, […]

Follow The Sound Festival

September 8th, 2009 · · Comments Off on Follow The Sound Festival

OSP was commissionned to design the Follow The Sound festival image. FTS is a Free Jazz festival occuring in Antwerpen for 36 years. We did a serie of 4 different posters and 2 flyers (one in Risograph, the other one in offset) Typography and layout was done by OSP, and we asked RBDX to do […]

Follow The Sound Fonts

September 8th, 2009 · · 1 Comment

Band font for Follow The Sound festival were designed in collaboration with Jean Baptiste Parre from LPDME. It’s remixes of the Avant Garde font, semi bold, in it’s GPL version: URW Gothic, part of the Ghostscript urw-fonts-1.0.7pre44 package. Valek Filippov version with cyrillics can be downloaded here. 2 fonts were designed: Whisky Jazz and Distilled […]

Mamma Roma – La Sonic Party

September 8th, 2009 · · Comments Off on Mamma Roma – La Sonic Party

If you want to dance on the 26/09, here is the place! Mamma Roma are 3 pizzerias in Brussels. Collerettecocofilllsd designed a logo, OSP adapted it for a flyer and poster. This caracter will be declined on the pizza delivery boxes. Done in Inkscape.