Category Archives: News

WORM open

Last Friday, WORM opened it's new location in the center of Rotterdam. It was nice to see lots of people show up to celebrate this event, to see their new book- and recordshop back in such good shape and to discover forms of architectural re-use we only dreamt of, until now. The first LGRU-research meeting [...]

Birds of a Feather Flock Together

Proposal for a 'table practice' at the conference Don't Know!, this Saturday 17 September: The Graffiti Markup Language1 is a standard for describing graffiti practice. By making graffiti motion data freely available, GML allows anyone to transfer, compare and interrogate the work of individual writers. The standard is developed by artist Evan Roth2 with the [...]

Co-position from scratch

On 5 October the Co-position team will travel from Amsterdam, Brussels and Porto to meet in Eindhoven (NL) at Baltan Laboratories. Co-position is the title of the thread at the Libre Graphics Research Unit focusing on digital tools for lay-out. This particular compartment of the (Libre) graphics toolbox is very much defined through historical practices [...]

evolving publication

An excited morning spent on planning the work on a reader for The Libre Graphics Research Unit. This 'evolving publication' gathers existing and commissioned texts, and maybe other materials. With AL + SV we imagine a vibrant collection of open content material shared through collective indexing, annotation and translation. A first installment should be ready [...]

Desktop Summit

Planning a weekend at the Desktop Summit in Berlin, preparing for a mix of toolkit, developer and community tracks: interesting choices of perspective. How do distribution, application and toolkit communities actually work together? How will they/we speak about software? What about Unity?