“This book brings together reflections on collaboration and co-creation in graphic design, typography and desktop publishing, but also on gender issues and inclusion to the Libre Graphics community. It offers a paradigm shift, supported by historical research into graphic and type design practice, that creates strong arguments to re-engage with the tools of production. The conversations conducted give an overview of a variety of practices and experiences which show the need for more conversations and which can help educate designers and developers alike. It gives detailed descriptions of the design processes, productions and potential trade-offs when engaged in software design and development while producing designed artefacts. It points to the importance of transparent software development, breaking stereotypes and establishing a new image of the designer-developer combo, a fresh perspective of mutual respect between disciplines and a desire to engage in exchange of knowledge that is beneficial beyond what any proprietary software could ever be”
https://conversations.tools/150211_PRINT.pdf
“At the Libre Graphics Meeting 2008, OSP sat down with Chris Lilley on a small patch of grass in front of the Technical University in Wroclaw, Poland. Warmed up by the early May sun, we talked about the way standards are made, how ‘specs’ influence the work of designers, programmers and managers and how this process is opening up to voices from outside the W3C. Chris Lilley is trained as a biochemist, and specialised in the application of biological computing. He has been involved with the World Wide Web Consortium since the 1990s, headed the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) working group and currently looks after two W3C activity areas: graphics, including PNG, CGM, graphical quality, and fonts, including font formats, delivery, and availability of font software.”
