OSP + Scribus = Prizewinning Design!
Yesterday OSP received a Plantin-Moretus prize 2009 for best designed book in the category non fiction. The jury about Cross-over: “It was love at first sight“. The book, published by BAM and Lannoo and edited by Liesbeth Huybregts, uses Libre Fonts and is produced with Scribus and many other F/LOSS tools. We think it is probably the first publication made in Free Software crowned ‘best designed book’ and we are sure it is not going to be the last!
The prize is named after Plantin Moretus, a 16th century printing and publishing house in Antwerp renowned for its high quality cartography, typography and engraving.
OSP feels honoured 🙂
14 Comments ↓
1. Riku
Jun 6, 2009 at 10:25 am
Congratulations! What an exciting news.
2. JanC
Jun 6, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Congratulations!
Are you going to post a longer story about how this book was designed (what tools you use etc.)?
(I loved Stani’s explanation about designing “his” coin, and such stories are always good publicity for free software. 😉 )
3. Femke
Jun 7, 2009 at 11:28 am
Thanks! The publication itself has 16 pages about (part of) the design and research process: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works/kanttekeningen-sidemarks (in Dutch; we’re working on a French translation).
Other posts on the book: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?s=cross-over
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6. Renee Turner
Jun 9, 2009 at 10:18 am
A VERY big congrats!!!!! xx Renee
7. magia154
Jun 13, 2009 at 4:28 am
Great! Keep working and Congratulations!
8. lauren
Jun 13, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Yeah!!!
9. JanC
Jun 13, 2009 at 10:03 pm
Thanks Femke!
(And sorry for not looking around better myself 😉 )
10. FeIZocE
Jun 15, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Huge congrats! You deserved it.
11. nitrofurano
Jun 17, 2009 at 2:20 pm
this will help bringing an awesome visibility of open-source graphic design tools, and helping them being much better known!
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