A Note on the design of this publication
The design of this publication accommodates non-linear reading. Cross-references indicate to connections across chapters, themes, methods and timelines.
The design of this book is part of an ongoing collective exploration into unusual, non-proprietary, open-source, free and libre publishing tools and workflows. Such tools come with their own quirks and ask us to re-think our relationship to design tools. We hope this publication contributes to a growing community of designers who consider it relevant to rethink their tool-ecologies. Building on the knowledge and practices of many designers and collectives that work with and contribute to open-source approaches to designing on and offline publications,[1] Hackers & Designers’ publishing experiments intersect computer programming, art, and design, and involve the building of self-made, hacked, and reappropriated tools and technical infrastructures, which sometimes results in books, such as the one you are holding now.
Following open-source principles, the tool ecosystem that evolved around the design of this publication is documented and published on the H&D website[2] and git repository [3] under the CC4r license,[4] providing the possibility of continuation in other contexts, studying, critiquing, and repurposing.
The tools ecosystem includes: MediaWiki, Jinja templating, Pagedjs for the layout.
All typefaces used in this publication are available at ‘Badass Libre Fonts By Womxn’,[5] a repository of open source and/or libre typefaces composed by Loraine Furter and Velvetyne Libre and Open Source Type Foundry.[6]
Fonts used: Authentic, Louise, Sligoil, Noto Serif, Not-courier.