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
• Gráfica Liebre
• LAFKON
• Ricardo Lafuente
• Alexandre Leray
• Libre Graphics Magazine
• Libre Graphics Meeting
• Manuel Schmalstieg
• Manufactura Independente
• OSP
• Relearn
• Femke Snelting
• Juraj Sukop
• Stéphanie Vilayphiou

Initiatives, projects

• Eightycolumn (80c) is a network of artists, musicians and designers using, teaching, learning, writing free software as part of their practice.
• 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]

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
• Publications on libre graphics at Monoskop Log
• Christoph Haag, Femke Snelting (eds) "I think that conversations are the best, biggest thing that free software has to offer its user", Constant, 2015

Resources

• A collection of libre fonts by women, compiled by Loraine Furter.

See also

Graphic design, FLOSS, Copyright activism