@ManufacturaInd BTW, is there a development repo for #PropCourierSans ? — Greyscale Press (@greyscalepress) August 22, 2012 @greyscalepress Working on this — separating the propcourier part from the libregraphicsmag repo (which is huge and makes this take ages) — Manufactura Ind. (@ManufacturaInd) August 23, 2012 @greyscalepress we finally managed to split the #PropCourierSans repo, get
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Font design interviews
A couple of interviews with participants from the type design workshop in Lurs.
FontForge Workshop, day two
Second day of the workshop: we are getting familiar with the FontForge interface, and start drawing our first fonts. After drawing the fonts on paper, the partipants create a digital version – starting with the glyphs S – a – ô – n – e – H – A – g – w – k
PropCourierSans improved
Working today on an improved version of PropCourier Sans, a libre font designed by Manufactura Independente, based on NotCourierSans by OSP, based on Nimbus Mono L by URW++… Our modifications occured this morning in the frame of the type design workshop given by Dave Crossland. The changes we did: We fixed the placement of diacritics
FontForge Workshop, day one
Images from the font design workshop directed by Dave Crossland, in the beautiful city of Lurs, France. Day one: the participants learn how to quickly establish a concept for a font, using a pencil and a sheet of paper…
Type workshop, day -1
Day -1 : getting ready for the typography workshop. Greyscale Press member Manuel Schmalstieg is participating in a typography workshop in Lurs (southern France), focussed on FontForge (an open source software for font creation).
Papurweb series
June 27: first public presentation of the Papurweb edition, a series of four short books created by students of the Interaction class of Hervé Graumann and assistant Alan Bogana (HEAD, Geneva). The books were concieved during a 3-day workshop in May (read more). The books: Take me back – by Minhee Kim. WEB 0.0 –
Aether9, a reader on networked art
An upcoming publication on networked art, designed by the OSP team.
Booksprint on libre VJ tools
Our editor-in-chief participates in a FLOSS Manuals book-sprint on VJ tools.
HEAD workshop, the results
Image documentation from the “Obessive Notebooks” workshop, that ended May 3rd with the creation of four new books, by authors Minhee Kim, Vincent Miquel, Dimitri Petrachenko, Mounia Steimer and Sharon Tordjman. The workshop was hosted by Option Interaction, a department from HEAD – Geneva University of Art and Design, led by Hervé Graumann and assistant