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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

interpunctie samples all.pdf

October 26th, 2011 · Tags: · · · · · · Comments Off on interpunctie samples all.pdf

From Thursday 20th to Sunday 23rd November OSP went to contemplate the Bolwerk archives landscape from the window of Frans Masereel Centrum. As part of Bolwerk‘s residency, we were invited to propose a reading of Bolwerk’s material inbetween its punctuation. Linked to our actual and future projects, this journey also presented itself as a good […]

Making a living

May 9th, 2011 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on Making a living

makingaliving.pdf OSP contribution for the LGM Tools-exhibit in StudioXX, Montreal.

Lower cases

February 2nd, 2011 · Tags: · · · · 1 Comment

Hello this is Antoine, new intern at OSP. Glad to meet you. OSP-DIN is now ready to go through meta pleins et délies experimentations.

Kick out the jam

June 14th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on Kick out the jam

7 OSP funky geeky sheeps players inTypogravieh lebt’s trailer. Vielen Dank Martin & the typovieh-team. Our Bauhaus typo symposium was more than leben.

Hello I’m NANCY ♥

March 28th, 2010 · Tags: · · · · · Comments Off on Hello I’m NANCY ♥

3 days, 327 kilometers, 6 liters of Cube Cola Libre and 54 commits later … Please meet NANCY (a new OSP-software project), download the Dingbat Liberation font (DLFo) and much more at: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/nancy Re-thinking Miscellaneous Symbols: Flêche grasse à pointe arondie vers la droite?

Launching OSP-works

March 8th, 2010 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Launching OSP-works

5 years of Free, Libre and Open Source design experiments. Now available in chronological order: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/works

☔☺? ? ? ?

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

Legal Soup

August 18th, 2009 · Tags: · · Comments Off on Legal Soup

1. Unlimited Use License Judging from the mysql errors flying around, the Open Records Generator software developed by David Reinfurt, is not actively maintained at the moment. Still, this GPL licensed software presents an interesting mix of buyers and users: “The buyer receives full rights to modify and reuse the software for future applications” (found […]

Adjustment of a bone under the skin

June 25th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · · 1 Comment

Last LGM and its typographic excitements has brought the DIN – Das Ist Norm – Loch Ness project to the surface of the Saint Laurent river again in a discussion with Denis Jacquerye from Deja Vu. Back in Brussels, we meet Denis in the temporary OSP Studio at Rue de la Senne to begin to […]

Pour la premiere fois dans ta ville

June 7th, 2009 · Tags: · · · Comments Off on Pour la premiere fois dans ta ville

Pierre Normal (pneu) and The Dreams en tournee. 16 June – Strasbourg, Le Troc Café, Rue du Faubourg de Saverne 17 June – Zürich, Kalki, Kalkbreitenstrasse (Palais Chalet) 18 June – Lausanne, Espace Autogéré 19 June – Stuttgart, Club für Flüssigkeiten & Schwingungen 20 June – Genève, L’Ecurie, (Palais Chalet) 21 June – Luzern, tbc […]

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

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 […]

OSP full scale in Beaubourg

March 18th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · · · · 5 Comments

OSP full scale in Beaubourg

As a side effect of the BPI/cinéma du réel festival, OSP has been asked to “perform” the program map in full scale in the Centre Georges Pompidou main hall, where the festival occurs. The map is a derivative from the printed one, folded into the brochure. It networks the festival selected movies and the subjective […]

Liberafiontes

March 9th, 2009 · Tags: · 1 Comment

03.03.2009 18:39 @ Chaussée de Waterloo / Porte de Hal, Brussels (sighted by Wendy): http://liberafiontes.jottit.com/

Open Revival

February 23rd, 2009 · Tags: · · · 5 Comments

“With the written word an absolute fundamental component of daily communication, typography and fonts are vital to providing aesthetic harmony and legibility to our textual works. There are thousands of fonts available, of which only a small number are useful or any good for setting vast quantities of text, and of which an even smaller […]

Rien a envier!

February 19th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · · 1 Comment

Rien a envier!

Enfin! FLOSS+Art Book is Launched! Damn it looks good!

Feature or bug?

February 4th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · 3 Comments

The FLOSS+Art book is finally rolling off the print-on-demand press and in the spirit of the kinds of practices described in the book, GOTO10 distributes our ‘source files’ as a bittorrent:1 Rather than just providing a “free” PDF, FLOSS+Art.v1.1.eBook-GOTO10 is also available and contains all the Fonts, Images, PDF and Scribus source files that were […]

Logo Galore

January 10th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · · 2 Comments

Logo Galore

Lots of work going on the OSP Studio. Here are few of our recent production: = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Logo for Le Vecteur Cultural space in Charleroi city Button version: This logo that can be adapted in multiform patterns: = = = = […]

Linux Limousine

January 5th, 2009 · Tags: · · · · · 1 Comment

Linux Limousine

We’re currently working on a poster for the support comittees for the nine people accused of “criminal association for the purposes of terrorist activity”. They were arrested the 11th of november 2008, in France, and 2 of them are still in jail. They and others are the victims of a witch-hunt in which the word […]

The most useful book

November 6th, 2008 · Tags: · · · · · · · Comments Off on The most useful book

The most useful book

Nous sommes heureux de vous inviter à la présentation du livre collectif : – – – – – – – – – – – – – Vomit’ can ich i’neun dî’neun? en quoi puis-je vous etre utile? – – – – – – – – – – – – – qui accompagne l’exposition – – […]

Libertinage

November 2nd, 2008 · Tags: · · · 2 Comments

Libertinage

The Libertinage font set we developed for FLOSS+Art book is available on the Open Font Library for several days. We built Libertinage by copying and pasting parts of Linux Libertine glyphs or simply by all-turning glyphs. There are 27 variations, one for each latin letter in the alphabet + the ‘Full’ version, containing all modifications. […]

Full exclusive rights in perpetuity

October 8th, 2008 · Tags: · · 3 Comments

Hi, OSP. I found you on Open Font Library. I am building a website containing webmasters resources, and I’d like to have 3 original exclusive fonts that I can give away to members who join my site. I’d like to pay you to create 3 original fonts – are you willing? If you have 3 […]

doubt, critique, reason, hope

October 7th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

For everyone (like me) who keeps re-reading the 1992 edition of Robin Kinross’ Modern Typography: an essay in critical history… his revised edition (published in 2004) ends in an interestingly different way*: “The phrase ‘democratization of typography’ has become common, referring to the wide availability of the tools of production for type and typographic design. […]

Figlet…Cowsay…

August 25th, 2008 · Tags: · · · 1 Comment

During the Polish Print Party, a scene performed silently behind the bar counter… they are about : === FIGlet ============================== Go to Synaptic to install the Figlet package Find the pre-installed fonts: /usr/share/figlet To add more fonts: /usr/share/figlet (That is for all users. Otherwise, you have to put the new fonts in a directory of […]

You need to copy to understand

August 6th, 2006 · Tags: · · · 3 Comments

Interview with Harrisson One of the co-conspirators in this open source adventure is a Brussels graphiste going under the name Harrisson. His interest in open source software flows with the culture of exchange that keeps the off centre music scene alive, as well as with the humanist tradition persistingly present in contemporary typography. Harrissons’ visual […]