It’s rentrée day at OSP
and we’re shaking
our website.
The future hours
will show some chaos on pages and
categories and html renderings…
September 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
It’s rentrée day at OSP
and we’re shaking
our website.
The future hours
will show some chaos on pages and
categories and html renderings…
Tags: In the pipeline · under development · website
What we’re doing and what we’ve done.
500 unique books installed in Worm, Rotterdam.
Giant pixel image by Gordo Savicic and Danja Vassiliev.
More images: http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/image/?level=album&id=23
Tags: Design samplesB · Printing + Publishing · Scripting
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.
Tags: In the pipeline · Printing + Publishing · Python
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 just [...]
Tags: Print Party · Python · Recipe · Scribus
OSP converses, talks with, interviews.
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 frame of reference is [...]
Library. Texts we like, texts we write.
Stroom Den Haag started their year long project After Neurath with a public symposium. After Neurath looked/looks at the relevance of 1930’s philosopher and information activist Otto Neurath, and as you can imagine various familiar issues came up.
More information about Otto Neurath: http://www.stroom.nl/webdossiers/webdossier.php?wd_id=3530772
The project is curated by Steve Rushton. Speakers: Frank Hartmann, Robin Kinross, Kristóf [...]
Tags: Reading list · Thoughts + ideas
Our foundry and source repository. A list of digital files.
← We printed this A1 poster to launch our first free font NotCourier-sans - it explains how it was made and why (and it is also our way of paying homage to FontForge).
If you want to receive a copy, please send an e-mail to: ivan at textzi.net with ‘NotCourier-sans poster’ in the subject header and [...]
Tags: Design samples · Open Fonts · Printing + Publishing