Ana Isabel @aiscarvalho@post.lurk.org

"Designer graphique et dessinatrice de caractères, #EugénieBidaut vient d’achever deux années de recherches à l’ #ANRT autour des formes d’ #écrituresinclusives. Iel crée le trio typographique #Adelphe Germinal, Floréal et Fructidor. Membre de la collective d’expérimentation de nouvelles formes graphiques et d’écritures inclusives #ByeByeBinary, iel participe ainsi à la #Typothèque, plateforme mettant à disposition des caractères #inclusifs, #nonbinaires et #postbinaires afin d’encourager leurs usages."
https://etapes.com/avec-eugenie-bidaut-redessiner-les-lignes-entre-genre-et-typographie/
#typographie #quni

The new issue of OW is out and I'm very proud of it. First, because it's penned by lurkers @aiscarvalho and @rlafuente, whom I've admired since I got to know their work.

Second, because it is topical: here, Ana and Ricardo rigorously dissect Stayaway, the contact tracing app launched in Portugal during the Covid pandemic. By analysing both the technical limitations of the app and its misleading visual metaphors, they prove that a grounded criticism of public health monitoring systems is possible. Reconsidering the app after its demise, they warn us against a novelty bias in the public discourse, which is too focused on promotion and expectations rather than consequences and effects.

Read it here: https://buttondown.email/otherworlds/archive/ow-6-the-design-of-hope-stayaway-covid-and-its/

And don't forget to subscribe to get future issues right in your inbox!

Trouble sleeping? Join me on September 28, 12:30pm (NYC time) for my little edition of the Herb Lubalin Lecture Series at Cooper Union, where I'll be rattling on about letterfitting. Specifically, how to translate the rather nebulous language we tend to use in conversation into something more concrete that we can make real comparisons with. The fouroneone below:

http://coopertype.org/event/thinking_about_talking_about_spacing

Join us !
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/live.html
#LGM2020

For all the people at #Fosdem this weekend. If you are interested in #libre #graphics and #opensource #design discussions and presentation, come join us at the #LGM2020 meeting this year, in Rennes, #France

Our Call for Proposals just opened https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2020/en/ #Fosdem2020

A couple of months ago I tooted looking for a vector grid-based editor. Nothing came up so we (Manufactura Independente) set out to make one.

It still has a set of kinks, but it's usable to the point that we've been using it to make a few designs.

We plan to release it in Feb/Mar under a free software copyleft license (AGPL). It runs on the browser with no server-side logic and no tracking.

If you'd like to try the beta and tell us about your experience, that'd be fab! Just reply to this toot and we'll get in touch.

We are still suffering from, what I'm going to call, the Lenna problem in some #lgm presentations.

Let's stop using sexualized images of women in presentations. It does not serve the project nor the community in any way.

#lgm19

freieFarbe is a nonprofit working on free color standards, references and tools based on CIELAB. even their color atlasses are CC licenced! #lgm19 #lgm2019 #lgm @lgm

Many small curves to inspect how different tools draw them. From the research on *splines* by Ralph Levien. https://spline.technology/ #LGM19

Help us put this account on the front page of the #fediverse by boosting this toot. 😜

#lgm #lgm19 #lgm2019 #LibreGraphicsMeeting

Saw Eylul's presentation at #lgm it was really interesting.

Point was about her experiences with teaching students concepts instead of software, and in particular more about modifying tools and seeing the computer as one that can be modified too. Which was important when the students were doing something as technical as photography.

#libregraphicsmeeting #lgm19

#libregraphics call for presentations is out:
https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2019/proposal-submission/