Author: Manuel Schmalstieg

A collection of interesting, well-crafted or otherwise inspiring newsletters and e-mail campaign layouts. From Indie Game: The Movie From Steve Lambert Studio (to be expanded)

A few legal questions about how Creative Commons licensing works. Answers can be posted on this public writing pad: https://greyscale.etherpad.mozilla.org/creativecommons A) Magazine (Texts) I produce a non-profit fanzine that compiles various texts and interviews. Some of the authors provide them under CC-BY, some under GNU GPL, some under CC-Zero. It also includes a text from…

I’m seeing currently more and more converging artistic/activist projects that tackle notions of online/offline, hosted/unhosted. This post is an attempt of putting them next to each other and search for their shared narrative. Is it a movement? Or merely a convergeance of ideas and technologies? Dead Drops | Un-cloud your files in cement! What: “an…

I need help to solve this simple mathematical problem: Imagine we have an image at a 16:9 ratio. From those two numbers (A:B), I need to get the “multiplier” that will bring me from A to B (from 16 to 9). In this case, with 16:9, I figured out that the multiplier is close to…

Last week, I attended the Libre Graphics Meeting in Madrid, four days of talks and workshops around libre and open source graphic tools. It was a blast, an enormous amount of interesting talks (in a very dense 10-min format), meetings with core teams of Scribus, FontForge and other essential design tools, discussions about web standards…