Design
A Note on the Design of this Publication
The layout of this book is part of an ongoing collective exploration into unusual, non-proprietary, open-source, free and libre publishing tools and workflows. 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]
Concretely, the technical infrastructure and workflow used to create this publication (wiki-to-print) is building on the code repositories of Manetta Berends (Varia Collective) developed for the publication ‘Volumetric Regimes’ edited by Possible Bodies (Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting), published under the CC4r license and the Design https://git.vvvvvvaria.org/mb/volumetric-regimes-book/, and the wiki-to-pdf research for the publication ‘Infrastructural Interactions’ edited by TITiPI (Helen V Pritchard, Femke Snelting) [1]
H&D’s 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, and Scribus & Gimp for image retouching and cover design.
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.
Fonts used: Ortica designed by Benedetta Bovani, Authentic Sans designed by by Christina Janus and Desmond Wong, and Combine designed by Julie Patard.
- ↑ Collectives that inspire us in our design experiments are Varia, Constant Association for Art and Media, Open Source Publishing, the practices and knowledge deriving from educational contexts such as the student-led interdepartmental initiative PUB at the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam or XPUB – a master programme of Experimental Publishing at Piet Zwart Institute, the digital and hybrid publishing research groups of the Institute of Network Cultures.
- ↑ https://hackersanddesigners.nl/s/Tools
- ↑ https://github.com/hackersanddesigners/
- ↑ https://constantvzw.org/wefts/cc4r.en.html
- ↑ https://www.design-research.be/by-womxn/