A-synchronous collaboration on what could be an image for Interactivos?'13: Tools for a Read-Write World1 And sketches are being plotted by Manufactura Independente! Featuring Pierre Huyghebaert, FS, Manufactura Independente, Dia, Inkscape and Roland [↩]
11 sessions @ ERG, Brussels. La plupart des auteurs contemporains (artistes, designers, cinéastes, écrivains), créent leur œuvre à l'aide d'ordinateurs. Ils utilisent les logiciels par défaut, les mêmes outils que tout le monde utilise. Imaginez que ces logiciels n'étaient pas seulement faits pour faire le travail, mais seraient des outils à penser, des instruments à [...]
This year I could only make it for a few days to LGM, but I am glad I came. First of all to meet friends and colleagues, to find out how they and their projects have been. I enjoyed getting hold of a fresh issue of Libre Graphics Magazine for example; The Physical, the Digital [...]
A first harvest of future tools that were brought to the surface at the Co-position Research Meeting: Colorfont The days of monochrome digital typography are over. Inspired by art-deco hand-drawn lettering experiments, Manufactura Independente came up with colorfont.js. This javascript library makes it easier to create multi-colored typography for the web. It was further developed [...]
PH works on a teaser for the next LGRU Research Meeting. Launch at FOSDEM next weekend.
Bravo was the first WYSIWYG editor (...) Previous editors rarely made any attempt to match the display to the printed page; this meant that users could not check whether they had formatted the document correctly, except by printing it out.1 Newman, W. (2012). Design case study: The Bravo text editor. Interactions, 19(1), 75-80 [↩]
A conversation with Tom Lechner We discovered the work of Tom Lechner at the Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels. Tom traveled from Portland, US to present Laidout, an amazing tool that he made to produce his own comic books and also to work on three dimensional mathematical objects. His software interests us for several [...]
Designer Dick Elffers made many Versneden affiches by cutting and binding posters into small booklets: He enjoyed the surprising compositions that resulted from arbitrarily combining pieces of his work, 'Le meilleur des mondes possibles'. But when I bring them up during the Co-positioning worksession (we are discussing 'designing with imposition', more about that later), GDH [...]
For the 5th edition of the Libre Graphics Meeting, OSP proposed to replace the paint splash by an abstract drawing of three squares forming a flag and also the letter M.1 The splash had been in use since 2006 and some community members felt alienated by the proposal. On 10/10/2009 AL explained on the CREATE-mailinglist: "The [...]
After an inspiring first Co-position session at Baltan Laboratories we are impatient to see what we can do next. In the trunk a To-Do-list, a wishlist and lots of notes: http://lgru.pad.constantvzw.org:8000/21 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/lab/wiki/index.php/Co-positioning + pictures.
This morning: Review of lists, dictionaries, arrays, functions, loops. Afternoon: Remembering how to speak to the Scribus-API (results possibly less abstract tomorrow). For now: instructions = ['Don't read', {'Take': ['paper', 'rods', 'blocks']}, ['set them out', 'color', 'build']]
Exercise for next week: "From the phrase Don't read, a line extends horizontally and then angles diagonally downward to the word Take, from which extend three short lines that connect the words paper, rods, blocks to the rest of the phrase. To the right of this cluster is the phrase, set them out, color, build" [...]
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 [...]
Donald Knuth performs his own future tool. Thanks IML!
"Draw two crossing lines from one edge of a page to another edge. Each division is read out loud by another person." File: frog.ogg Read by participants in the seminar Scripted Reading at the Association for Cultural Studies Summer Institute on Critical Literacies. Thank you Tony, Riet & Ike. Text: The Frog King from Household [...]