Title: Bauhaus meets F/LOSS
Date: 2011-04-12 09:00
Author: Femke
Tags: Education, Texts Education, Further reading, Manual
Slug: bauhaus-meets-floss
Status: published
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Taking it's inspiration from the Bauhaus *Vorkurs* ((Itten, Johannes.
Design and form: the basic course at the Bauhaus. New York: Van Nostrand
Reinhold)), Xtine Burrough and Michael Mandiberg wrote ***Digital
Foundations***
(([http://www.blog.digital-foundations.net](http://www.blog.digital-foundations.net/))),
a textbook for teaching software to designers and artists. Their idea
was to not just talk about which button to click, but to connect
technical training to color theory and composition. After publisher New
Riders had been convinced to apply a Creative Commons license to the
book ((HOWTO Negotiate a Creative Commons License: Ten Steps