Libre graphics
Libre Graphics includes practises and Free, Libre and Open Source software tools in the areas of design, illustration, typography, lay-out, art, photography, publishing, cartography, animation and video. Libre Graphics extends to standards, file formats and actual creative work.
Pages
Initiatives, projects, resources
- Eightycolumn (80c), a network of free culture aware educators in art, music and design education.
- Libre Graphics Meeting, yearly gathering of users and developers of Libre Graphics tools
- Libre graphics software initiatives (selection)
- PrePostPrint, a laboratory and research group for alternative free publishing workflows.
- the web to print library — prefiguration, printed editions produced with open source and web tools: a physical and mobile archive for schools, libraries and exhibition places, est. 2022. [1]
- Badass Libre Fonts by Womxn, gathered by Loraine Furter.
- https://xpub.nl/infrastructural-publishing.html
- https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/
- https://usemodify.com/
- https://velvetyne.fr/
- https://velvetyne.fr/velvetyne-libre-friends/
- PPPermapublishing @ HEAR (Strasbourg), 28–29 September 2024
Publications
- Libre Graphics Magazine, since 2010.
- Alexandre Leray, Stéphanie Vilayphiou (eds.), Considering Your Tools: A Reader for Designers and Developers, Libre Graphics Research Unit, 2013.
- Books with an attitude, books published by Constant, designed with 100% Free and Open Source Software
- I Think That Conversations Are the Best, Biggest Thing That Software Has to Offer its User, Brussels: Constant, 2015, 351 pp. (English)
- Manetta Berends, Femke Snelting, "Tools shape practice shapes tools...", Teknokultura. Journal of Digital Culture and Social Movements, Madrid: UCM, Nov 2024, PDF. A history of two decades of doing graphic design with free, libre and open-source tools.
See also
Graphic design, Free software, Copyleft activism
