There seems to a be a tendency nowadays for collaboration and cross-disciplinarity, and graphic designers are not at rest. Many designers — including ourselves — are increasivelly working together with artists, thinkers or engineers, blurring the separation between the disciplines. Why? Could it be a way to escape from the division of labour? A way to escape from the thinking of graphic design as a service industry and to start thinking of design as an embedded process? Our intuition is that graphic designers don't want to be the last element of the production line anymore.
Coming from a classical visual design education we became more and more interested in digital culture and networked media. Now, we mix a visual approach with programming to create designs for print and non-print outputs. We proudly claim the two hats of designer and programmer because for us programming is also design. Moreover, we think programs are cultural items, at least as much as they are functional. F/LOSS carries this thought, but using it doesn't necessarily imply free culture. This is why we focus our personal researches on collective platforms based on F/LOSS. Sharing is not only about giving, it's also about getting back, it's about starting a discussion.
2008
Issue magazine
http://www.issue-magazine.net/
Online critical magazine on graphic and media design.
software: Python, HTML, JQuery
fonts: Verdana
content: CC-BY-SA-NC, fair use
Rémy Jacquier
Catalogue of French artist Rémy Jacquier.
software: Indesign
fonts: CourierSans
content: © Rémy Jacquier, © ADERA
Datateb
http://datateb.alexandreleray.com/
Art piece mocking the software industry through recycle bins.
software: AppleScript, Python, Django
fonts: Verdana
content: Free Art License
source code: GNU GPL
http://github.com/aleray/datateb/
Google Will Feed Itself
http://googlewillfeeditself.blogspot.com/
A Google Blogspot fed with its own Google ads.
software: BlogSpot, GoogleAdsense
content ?
2009
ERBA Valence 2009—2011
Information leaflet for Valence school of Fine Art and Design.
software: Indesign, GraphViz
fonts: Nobel
content: ?
Blind Carbon Copy
Experimental design hacks to circumvent “Intellectual Property”.
software: Python, BeautifulSoup, NLTK, Indesign, JavaScript
fonts: New Caledonia, Vogue
content: all wrongs reversed
source code: GNU GPL
Cataloged
Online portfolio, also generating a printed one, of graphic designers Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé.
with: Coline Sunier, Charles Mazé
software: Mercurial, Python, Django, JQuery, MySQL, reportlab
fonts: Inconsolata
content ?
2010
Libre Graphics Meeting 2010
http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/
Website for LGM 2010 in Brussels.
with, Alessandro Rimoldi, OSP
software: Inkscape, HTML, anwiki
fonts: Cantarell
content ?
please computer | make me design
Workshop on fun commandline poster generation.
with OSP (Ludi, Ivan)
software: Git, GNU coreutils, enscript, podofoimpose
fonts from OSP foundry
content: Free Art Licence
source code: GNU GPL
Éditions B42
Website of Éditions B42 publishing house.
software: Git, Python, Django, HTML, JQuery, MySQL
fonts: Verdana, Hermès Sans
content: © Éditions B42
Disappearance
A word can only live once.
with: Marijke Schalken
software: Python, mplayer
source code: Free Art Licence
Constant
Flyer for Constant, association for art and media in Brussels.
software: Scribus
fonts: NotCourierSans, Constant Archive
content: Free Art Licence
2011
ACSR
Atelier de Création Sonore Radiophonique sound repository.
with: OSP (Ludi), Jérôme Degive
software: GIMP, Inkscape, WordPress
fonts: Univers Else
content: © right-owners
Schaarbeekse Taal
Flyers for events organized by the Schaarbeekse Taal project.
with: OSP (Ludi)
software: Git, GIMP, Inkscape
fonts: Limousine, Alfabet III
content: © right owners
Curating as Environ-mentalism
http://environmentalism.stdin.fr/
Online interface to comment chunks of Elke van Campenhout's essay.
software: Git, CouchDB, HTML, JQuery
fonts: Ume Mincho
content: All wrongs reversed
source code: GNU GPL
WIP
Le Chant des Particules
Website of a movie about LHC-CERN.
with deValence
software: Git, Python, Django, HTML, JQuery
fonts: ChicaGogoRGB
content: ?
else if
Collections of critical texts on graphic design and digital media.
software: Git, Python, Django, JQuery, SQLite, close-commenting
fonts: Helvetica
content: free licences, public domain, fair use
source code: GNU AGPL
Brainch
Collective writing application.
software: Git, Python, git-python, Django, JQuery, SQLite
fonts: Liberation Sans
content: Free Art License
source code: GNU AGPL
http://code.dyne.org/?r=brainch
