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OSP (Open Source Publishing) does graphic design using only free and open-source software. Unlike the standard proprietary software of the industry, this open software allows for further examination and modification, often in collaboration with the community. OSP favours an intimate relation with its tools.
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'''OSP (Open Source Publishing)''' questions the influence and affordance of digital tools through its practice of (commissioned) graphic design, pedagogy and applied research. They prefer to use exclusively [[Free software|free and open source softwares]] (F/LOSS). Currently the group is composed of people with backgrounds in graphic design, typography and development. They find excitement in the cross-over between its members respective fields and competences. Legally OSP is structured as a bilingual Belgian non-profit organization (asbl/vzw) and aims to question and find alternatives to the standard graphic design studio model. [http://osp.kitchen/about (2023)]
  
Founded in 2006 in the context of the [[Brussels]] art organisation [[Constant]], the OSP caravan now comprises a group of individuals from different backgrounds and practices: typography, graphic design, cartography, programming, mathematics, writing, performance. In a collaborative practice, they work in workshops and on commissioned or self-initiated projects.
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Founded in 2006 in the context of the [[Brussels]] art organisation [[Constant]].
  
OSP has worked with organisations both large and small, and has collaborated with individual artists. It has organised workshops at many art schools (Royal College of Art, Merz Akademie, Piet Zwart Instituut) and festivals (Vietnam Open Design Week, Festival de Chaumont). Finally, in divided Belgium, it has won both the most beautiful book of Flanders and the most beautiful book of Brussels/Wallonia.
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Members: [https://antoine.luuse.fun/ Antoine Gelgon], [[Alexandre Leray]], [https://www.de-heij.com/ Gijs de Heij], [[Stéphanie Vilayphiou]], [[Sarah Magnan]], [https://www.ludi.be/ Ludi Loiseau], [[Pierre Huyghebaert]]. [http://osp.kitchen/about (2023)]
  
Members: [[Pierre Huyghebaert]], [[Ludivine Loiseau]], [[Pierre Marchand]], [[Alexandre Leray]], [[Stéphanie Vilayphiou]], [[Eric Schrijver]], [[Gijs de Heij]], [[Sarah Magnan]], [[Colm O'Neill]]. Past members include [[Femke Snelting]], [[Harrisson]], [[Nicolas Maleve]], [[Yi Jiang]], [[Ivan Monroy López]], [[Seb Sanfilipo]], and [[John Haltiwanger]].
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Past members include [[Colm O'Neill]], [[Eric Schrijver]], [[Femke Snelting]], [[Harrisson]], [[Ivan Monroy López]], [[John Haltiwanger]], [[Nicolas Maleve]], [[Pierre Marchand]], [[Seb Sanfilipo]], and [[Yi Jiang]].
  
 
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* http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/outofink/2011/09/25/interview-with-alexandre-leray-eduard-martinez-piraces-eric-schrijver-femke-snelting-and-stephanie-vilayphiou-of-open-source-publishing/
 
* http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/outofink/2011/09/25/interview-with-alexandre-leray-eduard-martinez-piraces-eric-schrijver-femke-snelting-and-stephanie-vilayphiou-of-open-source-publishing/
  
[[Category:Open design]]
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[[Series:Libre graphics]] [[Series:Graphic design]] [[Series:Free software]]
[[Category:FLOSS]]
 

Latest revision as of 09:02, 25 April 2024

OSP (Open Source Publishing) questions the influence and affordance of digital tools through its practice of (commissioned) graphic design, pedagogy and applied research. They prefer to use exclusively free and open source softwares (F/LOSS). Currently the group is composed of people with backgrounds in graphic design, typography and development. They find excitement in the cross-over between its members respective fields and competences. Legally OSP is structured as a bilingual Belgian non-profit organization (asbl/vzw) and aims to question and find alternatives to the standard graphic design studio model. (2023)

Founded in 2006 in the context of the Brussels art organisation Constant.

Members: Antoine Gelgon, Alexandre Leray, Gijs de Heij, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Sarah Magnan, Ludi Loiseau, Pierre Huyghebaert. (2023)

Past members include Colm O'Neill, Eric Schrijver, Femke Snelting, Harrisson, Ivan Monroy López, John Haltiwanger, Nicolas Maleve, Pierre Marchand, Seb Sanfilipo, and Yi Jiang.

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