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Publication of the Face Your World Identity and Typeface (i.c.w. Johannes Lang)

Publication, Super Holland Design

A selection of my work is published in Super Holland Design by Actar.

The anxiously awaited follow-up to Holland Design, Super Holland Design explores new functionality in contemporary Dutch design. Featured designers transform concepts into strong messages, using new techniques and technologies. Dutch designers are inspiring exciting interactions between design and its users, compelling us to re-think the meaning of design itself. They question every aspect of design, creating new concepts, processes, and formats, bravely pushing the limits of user participation and the designer's role.

Featuring: Herman van Bostelen, Catalogtree, Office of CC, De Designpolitie, Experimental Jetset, Hans Gremmen, Arjan Groot, Atelier van GOG, Hantse van Halem, Studio Kluif, Julia Müller, Dennis Koot, Koehorst in't Veld, Harmen Liemburg, Luna Maurer, Lesley Moore, Lust, Machine, Meta Haven, Richard Niessen, Ping-pong Design, Sander Plug, STAR, Strange Attractors Design, Roger Teeuwen, Minke Themans, Thonik, Toko, Werkplaats Typografie, You & McCuskey, Zeloot.

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freestyle - seminar - 19th may 2004

Over the last few years ‘Free Libre and Open Source Software’ FLOSS, a form of collaborative software development has proven itself as a driving force of digital networks, especially the internet. Now this approach is beginning to open up new approaches in design and visual culture. This seminar will present clear information on this software and how it both challenges and provides new opportunities for media design.
Art and design work using computers can often get stuck in the use of the same old tools. One thing that FLOSS does is to allow for new ideas to become software on a much faster timescale and with less reliance on conforming to a ‘mass’ market. Learning design increasingly means learning to use the applications of a smaller and smaller amount of companies. FLOSS offers one possibility for escaping such a trap.
At the same time FLOSS itself could do with a good dose of design. Born as it is through the energy and imagination of software developers, FLOSS can in some cases fall behind in meeting the needs of users who aren’t also programmers. On the one hand this creates an important demand for greater technical literacy amongst users, but it also means that interfaces to, for instance, cultural practices, need creating.
The morning session will present an introduction to FLOSS software in design. The emphasis is on a realistic survey of the possibilities this way of working is opening up.
The afternoon will present a number of case studies. Artists and designers using FLOSS software will show and talk about the tools they work with, the culture of use of the software. Software developers will present their projects and open them up to questions and debate.

Confirmed speakers:
Morning session
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - Economist and editor of FirstMonday, Maastricht; orbiten.org
Roger Teeuwen – Graphic Designer, Rotterdam
Afternoon session
Willi LeMaitre & Eric Rosenzweig – PlayList, software tools for collaborative video work, www.w----e.net
Graham Harwood - artist, London, speaking about The GIMP, image manipulation software scotoma.org
Erik Dooper - Open Source Software Lab, Amsterdam, will demo Scribus, SodiPodi and Inkscape. DTP and vector graphics applications. ossl.org
Kit Blake – Silva, content management system, Rotterdam; infrae.com
Jaromil - GNU/Linux developer, South Italy, currently resident at Montevideo, Amsterdam; Dynebolic, dyne.org
Artm Baguinski – V2_Lab, Rotterdam, presents V2_Jam, research on combining and integrating open source media software, lab.v2.nl

This seminar is jointly held by:
Media Design Research, Piet Zwart Institute, the institute for postgraduate studies and research of the Willem de Kooning Academy Hogeschool Rotterdam http://pzwart.wdka.hro.nl/
Interactive Media, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
V2_Organisation, Institute for the Unstable Media http://www.v2.nl/

Stream
This seminar will be streamed via http://www.v2.nl/live/