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We’re not here to be polite

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…

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Works

What we’re doing and what we’ve done.

500 (printed!)

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

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500 (continued)

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.

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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 just [...]

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Conversations

OSP converses, talks with, interviews.

You need to copy to understand

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 [...]

Texts

Library. Texts we like, texts we write.

Skeleton, Corset, Skin

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 [...]

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Downloads

Our foundry and source repository. A list of digital files.

Free Poster!

← 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 [...]

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