{"id":7433,"date":"2013-10-06T17:42:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/?p=7433"},"modified":"2015-10-07T17:12:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T15:12:26","slug":"up-pen-down-invited-designers-valence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/news\/up-pen-down-invited-designers-valence","title":{"rendered":"Up Pen Down, 2012\/2013 invited designers at the ESAD Valence Grenoble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After Metahaven (2008\/2009), \u00c5b\u00e4ke (2009\/2010), Paul Elliman (2010\/2011) and LUST (2011\/2012), OSP are honoured to join the ESAD\u2019s program as invited designers, giving workshops throughout the first semester.<\/p>\n

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The intervention of OSP is situated around the notion of stroke, in the sense of path\u2014as opposed and informed by the notion of form. Allowing itself to be explored through the different modalities of drawing, typography and cartography, the stroke is intimately related to the tool by which it is drawn, thus influencing the visual language.<\/p>\n

As technical, intellectual and cultural constructions, software embodies specific conceptions of the objects they are designed to manipulate (stroke and form, in this case). The PostScript format, for example, describes letterforms by their contour instead of their skeleton. Yet other, lesser known file formats might take an inverse approach.<\/p>\n

By virtue of the availability of the source code and more importantly still by the open discussions around their conceptions (mailing lists, collaboration platforms), free and open source software allows the designer the better grasp the implications of the tools for their process.<\/p>\n

These are some of the projects developed during OSP\u2019s collaboration with the school:<\/p>\n

TURTLE Graphics<\/h2>\n