About

OSP (Open Source Publishing) is a graphic design collective that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software. Closely affiliated with the Brussels based foundation for art and media Constant, OSP aims to test the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a range of F/LOSS tools.

Since 2006, we investigate the potential of F/LOSS in a professional design environment. We do not expect to find (or offer!) the same experience as the ones we are used to. In fact, we are interested in experimenting with everything that shows up in the cracks.

More about OSP

What is in a name
Why OSP thinks fonts should be free software
Awkward Gestures
Interview with Matthew Fuller
Design Tools for Designers
Les Nains, a song by Marie Dubas (1937)

OSP members

Harrisson
Interview: You need to copy to understand
Graphic designer and teacher based in Brussels. Started to use as much Open Source software as possible on his Macintosh as part of a research project The Tomorrow Book at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht. By now his practice runs on F/LOSS entirely.

Pierre Huyghebaert
http://www.speculoos.com
Exploring several practices around graphic design, he currently drives the studio Speculoos. Pierre is interested in using free sofware to re-learn to work in other ways and collaboratively on cartography, type design, web interface, schematic illustration, book design and teaching these practices. Along participating in OSP, he articulate residential spaces and narratives through the artists temporary alliance Potential Estate and develop collaborative and subjective mapping with Towards and others Brussels urban projects.

Ludivine Loiseau
http://www.ludi.be/
crashed into Open Source on board of an OSP truck on the way to Poland. Is part of the Speculoos team, studied typography at the École Estienne in Paris

Nicolas Maleve
http://towards.be
Systems- and software developer from Brussels, currently living in Barcelona, with a long interest in the politics and practice of software. Uses Linux since 1998 and makes publishing- and distribution systems for collaborative work.

Yi Jiang
http://www.taidangao.org/
Shuttled between graphic design and non graphic design after studying in The Central Academy of Art & Design (Beijing) and a short stay at ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels). Till the day that she knocked at the door of OSP…

Ivan Monroy López
http://textzi.net
Programmer, writer from Mexico. Studied at the Piet Zwart Institute Media programme. Interested in programmatic print, and niche publishing. His new zine is called “print soapbox”. He will give you a copy if you just ask

Femke Snelting
http://snelting.domainepublic.net/
Graphic designer and artist based in Brussels, developing projects at the intersection of design, feminism and free software.

John Haltiwanger
http://drippingdigital.com/blog
Working in programming languages, new media theory, and typographic design software, John strives for a balance between the practical, the aesthetic, and the boundary-breaking.

And also: Alexandre Leray, Pierre Marchand, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Seb Sanfilippo, …