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l’Atelier

January 6th, 2011 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on l’Atelier

In collaboration with Jérôme Degive (Pica Pica), OSP is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the new Atelier de Création Sonore Radiophonique website. Tracks details and generic to follow.

from cage to pipeline

November 14th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on from cage to pipeline

H E Y ! Libre Graphics Magazine #1 is out ! Bravo Ana, ginger, Ricardo + the whole team and participants. Follow the details about the production process and order soon your copy from their blog.

Gender Art Net – Folding step

April 12th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · · · · 1 Comment

Gender Art Net poster is now ready for folding. Project presentation and workshop – Berlin – April 16-17 _2010 (more coming) 1000 posters – A2 recto black – verso CMYK 1 plis horizontal – 4 zig zag + 1 roulé

Cimatics landscapes

November 9th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on Cimatics landscapes

Earlier this year, we were invited to work on the identity of the Brussels-based Cimatics A\V Platform. Cimatics is a framework for initiating and facilitating audiovisual productions, events, publications and workshops. To launch the new identity, we developed a new family of fonts! We hope you’re ready for the libre dingbats attack URW Gothic L […]

\definetypeface

March 14th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on \definetypeface

Designing with TeX: episode III Thanks to the super active ConTeXt mailinglist, we are finally able to load our own fonts! And of course, once we know how, we are almost disappointed that it is so easy to do. if you compile this file: \definetypeface[Libertinage][rm][Xserif][Libertinage] \setupbodyfont[Libertinage, 24pt] \starttext \input knuth \stoptext with this command: texexec […]

A table!

March 11th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on A table!

A table!

Un petit livre de cuisine en préparation… il s’agit un livret de recettes créées par les habitants de chez Puerto. Une association qui offre un soutien aux personnes qui sont en difficulté entre autres en leur proposant un repas équilibré à prix réduit. 3  services (entrée | plat | dessert)  pour moins de 4 euro […]

Lions and tulips

February 18th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · 2 Comments

Designing with TeX: episode II “Users only need to learn a few easy-to-understand commands that specify the logical structure of a document“. If only we had sooner understood that user here is writer, not designer, we might have given up earlier. The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2 goes on to explain: “They almost never […]

Designing with LaTeX

October 28th, 2008 · Tags: · · 4 Comments

Designing with LaTeX

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 […]

We’re not here to be polite

September 8th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 10 Comments

It’s rentrée day at OSP and we’re shaking our website. The future hours days will show some chaos on pages and categories and html renderings…

New book cover approved

August 21st, 2008 · Tags: · · 5 Comments

New book cover approved

We’re currently finishing the layout of a new book: FLOSS+Art Here is a preview of the cover, designed with Inkscape using the “clone tile” function. Font is Not-Courier Sans… FLOSS+Art critically reflects on the growing relationship between Free Software ideology, open content and digital art. It provides a view onto the social, political and economic […]

500 (continued)

June 30th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

500 (continued)

For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter API in a printed job and a catalogue for the Piet Zwart Institute’s Media design graduation show formed the perfect excuse.

500

May 29th, 2008 · Tags: · Comments Off on 500

500

With 9 Media Design students graduating this summer from the Piet Zwart Institute, OSP’s Harrisson is busy producing 500 different books – all in Free Software of course. The books contain essays, images, project documentation and typographic experiments and will be printed using the Mute POD system. Image: Inkscape Clone Tile Color Randomization plus Align […]