It started out as a list for ASCII and textmode art editors but grew to include all kinds of alternative design tools. I've hosted two workshops where the assigment is to create a printed zine without the use of any Adobe software. I give this list to the participants to explore. The scans of these zines and more info can be found here:
I think its crazy that my University (Aalto) pays over a million euros in licencing fees to Adobe every year while the design teachers are chronically overworked and understaffed. My ultimate goal is to persuade the institution to ditch Adobe and switch to FOSS tools, and hire more staff & teachers.
One of the.big hurdles is pantone support. At some point most places want their design to hit the real world and pantone has that market cornered. I dont just mean the technical parts pantone has expensive licensing that most FOSS doesnt and wont ever pay.
I am guessing that pantone is a bunch of colors that are coded a certain way? Isn't there a common mechanism across design software? Like PDF is the platform agnostic way of sharing documents?
It started out as a list for ASCII and textmode art editors but grew to include all kinds of alternative design tools. I've hosted two workshops where the assigment is to create a printed zine without the use of any Adobe software. I give this list to the participants to explore. The scans of these zines and more info can be found here:
https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/hei...
https://tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi/residenssi/hei...
I think its crazy that my University (Aalto) pays over a million euros in licencing fees to Adobe every year while the design teachers are chronically overworked and understaffed. My ultimate goal is to persuade the institution to ditch Adobe and switch to FOSS tools, and hire more staff & teachers.
There is more than one toll troll.in that marker.
https://animasci.com/
[1]: LGTM ASCII Art as a Service - https://lgtms.app/
https://github.com/ScriptSmith/tart
https://tart.sh/
https://www.slanted.de/news/digital-tools/
The issue has screenshots of many of them: https://www.slanted.de/product/slanted-magazine-47-digital-t...
https://play.ertdfgcvb.xyz