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

• Ana Isabel Carvalho
• Constant
• Ginger coons
• Julien Deswaef
• Loraine Furter
• Gráfica Liebre
• LAFKON
• Ricardo Lafuente
• Alexandre Leray
• Libre Graphics Magazine
• Libre Graphics Meeting
• Manufactura Independente
• OSP
• Relearn
• Femke Snelting
• Juraj Sukop
• Stéphanie Vilayphiou

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/
• Protest Fonts by GenderFail, since 2018. Fonts based on protest signs from queer and trans projects, the protests for black lives since the Stonewall Riots of 1969 to the present.
• 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.

• Publications on libre graphics at Monoskop Log

See also

Graphic design, Free software, Copyleft activism