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Hachures Tournures Balsamine Print Party

September 29th, 2014 · Tags: · · · · · · · · · No Comments

We’re happy to be having the next Print Party in the familiar Balsamine Foyer for the second year in a row! This year as part of a new seasonal program, but also smaller parallel program «Nos Petites Madeleines» and along with the 15 day long Quizaine Numérique we’re going to be presenting Hachures Tourneurs. Following […]

Seoul fonts karaoke

January 29th, 2014 · Tags: · · · · · · No Comments

This print party was wildly exciting. Thanks again to the collectif SIN and De La Charge gallery. Find the recipe and generic of the event on the README page of the workshop and download the 2 hits interpreted by our voice Ms. Funzie Korocr, ????? ??? Remix 1 and ????? ??? Remix 2

The first months of 2011

December 23rd, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · 3 Comments

What the first half of the new OSP-year looks like from here: January Start with a bang: Monday January 3 all OSPs gather for a Scribus experiment. You’ll hear more about once we get there! Antoine from l’École Estienne, Paris joins us for an internship of three months. We have new plans for some kind […]

446 Nancy A5

November 4th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on 446 Nancy A5

make art opening starts at 19 pm Hurry up ! Dingbats Liberation Fest Characters are crowding the walls. Get your D.L.F contributor certificate ✄

Biscoitos da Sorte

March 3rd, 2010 · Tags: · · 2 Comments

Ricardo Lafuente and Ana Carvalho imported/exported a Print Party to Porto. With live Fortune Cookies … how brave! (Recipe for cookies + messages)

Dingbat Liberation Fest II

December 4th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Friday December 11 Location: CASCO, Office for Art, Design and Theory Utrecht (NL) ? ? ❀ ☺ ? ? ☺ ? ❉ Next week, OSP is happy to re-play Dingbat kitchen with students from the Arnhem Academy of Art and Design. “Dingbats have sneaked into most computers nowadays. They’re as much a part of the […]

☔☺? ? ? ?

November 16th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on ☔☺? ? ? ?

Thursday Jeudi 26/11 Dingbat Liberation Fest + Populated Fonts @ Verbindingen/Jonctions 12: By Data We Mean Zennestraat 17 Rue de la Senne, Brussels Bruxelles

Re-Print party: Quatre Quarts II

March 30th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Re-Print party: Quatre Quarts II

Tuesday 31 March 13:00-16:00 Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles At Open course / Open source, OSP performs a second run of a Print Party that happened almost a year ago at the exact same location. This time we have changed roles to serve you another assorted collection of stories about […]

OSP + Open Source / Open Course

March 24th, 2009 · Tags: · 1 Comment

mardi 31 mars 2009 @ ERG, Bruxelles Open Course / Open Source : une journée d’information et de rencontre sur le logiciel libre dans le domaine de l’art. Présentations, partage d’expériences, print-party and more … Auditoire P7 • Erg, 87, Rue du page, 1050 Bruxelles http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1204

OSP in 75

December 10th, 2008 · Tags: · · Comments Off on OSP in 75

OSP is invited for a workshop day at 75 school, in Woluwe, Brussels. Wednesday 17 December. Music playlisting, video browsing, recipes printing, font remixing and pancake making.

Awkward Gestures

November 2nd, 2008 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Awkward Gestures

Awkward Gestures

Out now: The Mag.net reader 3: Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures, edited by Alessandro Ludovico and Nat Muller. From the introduction: “a radical change is to be detected between the lines: publishing on paper is not about rigorously selling and distributing content to a specific target readership. It is more a ‘gesture’ that creates a space […]

Print, flip, and turn

June 29th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · Comments Off on Print, flip, and turn

Print, flip, and turn

At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was very simple Perl. If you […]

Quelques surprises polonaises

June 18th, 2008 · Tags: · 1 Comment

            _          _            | | o      | |                  o    _   __  | |     ,  | |         _   ,_       _  _  _|_  |/ \_/  \_|/  |  / \_|/ \      |/ \_/  |  |  / |/ |  |  |__/ \__/ |__/|_/ \/ |   |_/   |__/    |_/|_/  |  |_/|_/ /|                             /| \|                             \|    _   __,   ,_  _|_  |/ \_/  |  /  |  |  |   |  |__/ \_/|_/   |_/|_/ \_/|/ /|                      /| \|                      \| vendredi le 27 juin 2008 OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de sa première fonte en licence libre: la NotCourier-sans. Nous serions ravis de vous retrouver autour d’un live lay-out, des Jiaozi/Pierogi et de quelques surprises (polonaises) lors de cette […]

Polish Print Party

June 8th, 2008 · Tags: · Comments Off on Polish Print Party

June 27, 19:00 20:00 @ Compilothèque* Polish Print Party With: launch of NotCourier-sans, OSP FAQ, live lay-out, Jiaozi/Pierogi and more. *50 Quai des Péniches 1000 Brussels

Print party: OSP Cover Band

May 5th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

We are preparing our print party for tomorrow… Introducing Not Courier Sans (a re-take font), serving Original Covers (a playlist specially prepared for you) plus homemade jiaozi, ravioli and/or pierogi. Join us at 19:00 in Café Mleczarnia, Wroclaw (Poland)!

OSP @ LGM 2008

April 22nd, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

OSP is preparing for a hectic week in Wroc?aw, Poland (3 t/m 11 May). At this years Libre Graphics Meeting we give a one day workshop in O?rodek Postaw Twórczych (Creative Arts centre), perform a Print Party and present our work. The LGM program is packed with talks and we’ll hopefully record a few more […]

Quatre/Quarts: multi track Print Party

April 13th, 2008 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Quatre/Quarts: multi track Print Party

more images here: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=13 and here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcwathieu/…

11 avril: Quatre/Quarts Print Party à l’ERG

April 9th, 2008 · Tags: · · 2 Comments

Info: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=407 Recette: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/recipes Pour faire une 4/4 Print Party, il faudra: 2 fours électriques 16 œufs 1 kg de beurre 1 kg de sucre blanc fin 1 kg de farine 3 tabliers 1 raclette en caoutchouc (pour racler les plats avec facilité) 1 rouleau de papier cuisson 1 pair de ciseaux 2 cuillères à […]

OSP parle à l’ERG, round 2

March 18th, 2008 · Tags: · Comments Off on OSP parle à l’ERG, round 2

Thanks to ERG and Marc Wathieu, OSP will perform friday 11th of April, during Open Course event. http://www.multimedialab.be/blog/?p=1138 OSP Print Party 11/04 14:00 – 17:00 Erg (École de Recherche Graphique) 87, rue du page – 1050 Bruxelles. Supposed to be open to the public. In French, but multi-lingual pluggin installed.

Free Operations / 1

November 23rd, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Free Operations / 1

2 day Free Operations workshop at Werkplaats Typografie

Free Operations

November 2nd, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Free Operations

2 day workshop Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem (20 + 21 November, 2007) What permutations between typeface, typesetting and text can you imagine? How to design through scripting and can you read differently with computer manipulations? Full brief:

November 7: PubliActie

October 10th, 2007 · Tags: · Comments Off on November 7: PubliActie

PubliActie @ Boekenbeurs Antwerpen Inspired by the legacy of Cornelius Kiliaan, inventor of the first Dutch dictionary, Marthe van Dessel and Wendy van Wynsberghe look for neologisms and definitions in search of a word. Using Free Software and Free Licenses, the result will be an open source lexicon taking into account our daily feelings, experiences […]

OSP @ Werkplaats Typografie

October 9th, 2007 · Tags: · Comments Off on OSP @ Werkplaats Typografie

OSP visits Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem (The Netherlands) to discuss a two-day workshop on Free Fonts with Anniek Brattinga and Karel Martens. http://www.werkplaatstypografie.org

How to turn a frog into a prince

June 27th, 2007 · Tags: · · · · · 2 Comments

Frog and Prince is a fairytale featuring free software, python scripting and an open font. The story was premièred at LGM 2007 (Montréal, Canada), and formed the centerpiece of the Canadian Printing Breakfast (Brussels, June 2007). Below is everything you need to make the recipe, but you can also browse through sample documents for each […]

Pancakes & Python

June 18th, 2007 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Pancakes & Python

Impressions from Canadian Printing Breakfast in Nepomuk Bar, Brussels. More images in Constants Image Repository. Special thanks: An, Wendy & Pierre (serving), Ivan (Python), Nurse (records), Peter (pictures), Nicolas (printing), Veronique (City Min(e)d).

Canadian Printing Breakfast – Impressions canadiennes au petit-déjeuner

June 10th, 2007 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on Canadian Printing Breakfast – Impressions canadiennes au petit-déjeuner

Samedi 16 Juin Nepomuk Bar – City Mine(d) – Rue Saint-Jean Nepomucen, 17, Bruxel Click here for English Open Source Publishing est fier de vous inviter à son petit-déjeuner canadien, où vous seront servies leurs dernières aventures dans le monde des Logiciels Libres. Au menu: mise en page animée d’un conte de fée, programmeur chercheur […]

Print Party Berlin

September 18th, 2006 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Print Party Berlin

A report from the whole day is here: http://www.stormy-weather.be/wiki/in…

Print Party 2.01 at Université Attac

September 12th, 2006 · Tags: · · 1 Comment

Conditions of production and cultural consumption After Nicolas gave a brief history of how author rights have developed and how the free software and copyleft movements responded to its increasing restrictive use… …while trying to be not to grim about the way copyright laws are currently used and abused… This poster by Act Up (questioning […]

Printing Party at Wizard of Os: Art & Copyright

September 10th, 2006 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Printing Party at Wizard of Os: Art & Copyright

Wednesday September 13, 10:00 ? 20:00 Tesla, Klosterstra?e 68-70, Berlin http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=2806 Workshop Organised by Cornelia Sollfrank and Nicolas Malev? Printing Party by Harrisson & Pierre Huyghbaert FREEdom and OPENness ? anything but marketing and ideology? Sharing, really? Culture from and for the Commons. One day before WOS4, an international group of artists, programmers and theoreticians […]

C’est parti

July 10th, 2006 · Tags: · · Comments Off on C’est parti

Souvenirs / Greetings from the Print Party!

Print Party! Join!

June 23rd, 2006 · Tags: · Comments Off on Print Party! Join!

Rendez-vous le 7 juillet a Quarantaine pour une bonne Print Party! Ce sera a 16:00, et ca durera jusque peut-etre 20:00. Ca sera en fran?ais avec accent, (et bequilles en anglais et en n?erlandais), men? par la Constant Printing + Cooking Team. Ou l’on apprendra comment mettre en page, imposer et imprimer un booklet avec […]

Coming Soon: Print Party

June 21st, 2006 · Tags: · Comments Off on Coming Soon: Print Party

Friday July 7 16:00: Printing Party at Quarantaine (Brussels), with Scribus get-together and festive booklet-printing demo plus Open Cola cocktails. More details in a few days! Find more P s with open content license at: http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=p+oneletter&m=tags&l=deriv (Advanced search > Only search within Creative Commons-licensed photos)

Printing Party 0.2 at Digitales

June 4th, 2006 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Printing Party 0.2 at Digitales

At this years’ edition of Digitales, we tested out a recipe for producing booklets, using texts with open licenses that are available on line. The recipe was an excuse to discuss the relation between software and design, why it would be interesting for designers/publishers to consider using FLOSS tools and what the problems might be.

The Tomorrow Book / Printing Party 0.1

June 2nd, 2006 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on The Tomorrow Book / Printing Party 0.1

Production line set up for the scanning, lay-out (in Scribus of course!), printing and binding of The Continuous Present On May 18-19 The Continuous Present was printed-on-demand at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. This publication was developed in the context of The Tomorrows Book, an ongoing investigation into the possible futures of reading, […]