I’m delighted to announce my participation (on behalf of the Greyscale Press publishing project) in the Off The Press conference, May 22-23 2014, organized by the Institute of Network Cultures, Rotterdam. Other speakers include Alessandro Ludovico, Florian Cramer, Traumawien, Sebastian Luetgert, Marcell Mars, Dusan Barok… how exciting to be in such good company! Here’s the abstract of
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More photos from Critical Engineering workshop
A workshop with Julian Oliver and Danja Vasiliev. Zurich, March 2014.
Call for contributions: Libre Graphics Magazine 2.3
We’re happy to announce that Greyscale Press will collaborate as a guest-editor on the next issue of Libre Graphics Magazine, due for this summer. This issue will be all about Libre / Free & Open Source typography, fonts, publishing and authoring tools – check the call for submissions below. And in the meantime, grab a
The Libre Type Design Debate
Following the recent ATypI conference, and triggered by Tom Phinney’s provocative article Free Fonts, Revealed and Reviled, a lively debate is happening right now on the OpenFontLibrary mailing-list. Some contributions – by Vernon Adams, Raphaël Bastide, Pablo Impallari, Eric Schrijver – are an enlightening read for anyone interested in the problematics of libre typeface design and distribution. Some highlights:
LGRU Porto feedback
Already one month has passed since the wonderful LGRU meeting in Porto. And summer arrived, finally, sort of. I was planning a proper writeup, but of course this didn’t materialize – so instead of a long report, here is a raw list of things / links / topics / ideas / action items that may
LGRU Laptops
The LGRU (Libre Graphics Research Unit) meeting in Porto was the occasion to conduct a little survey on hardware and operating systems used by the participants. The survey results are available on dropbox (in the .odt document). Feedback: @greyscalepress like the laptop serie. Wanted to do the same at #LGM13 but thought of it too