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Workshops and talks are taking place at different places in the Mekong-Delta in Ho Chi Minh city and Can Tho.

Featured Designers

Pierre Marchand

Pierre Marchand

Scribus

Pierre refuses labels: he is not a programmer, nor cartographer or artist. Or maybe he is all at once? In the last few years, Pierre contributed to the development of major Free Software projects such as the Scribus desktop publishing software. He is projectleader of FontMatrix, a font management system initiated in 2007. He works on the duo Fonzie-Nancy, a scan-to-font application that allows a font based on several "drawings" by nature and recently LiteralDraw, an application that allows the exploration of the relation between drawing and code.

Alexandre Leray

Alexandre Leray

Open Source Publishing

The Unix(-like) operating system standard streams, allowing commands to be chained together to produce original programs. It shows our interest for programming, for the GNU/Linux operating system and Free software in general. But moreover it reflects our interest for language, and how the latter is a tension between existing standards and new meanings. We've been trained as classical graphic designers in the Valence school of Fine ArtsFR from 2004 to 2006, where we developed a strong interest in media and writing theory. In 2009, we graduated from the MA Media Design course of the Piet Zwart Institute in RotterdamNL. We strengthen our research and theory practice along developing our programming skills to apply them to graphic design.

Stéphanie Vilayphiou

Stéphanie Vilayphiou

Open Source Publishing

Unix(-like) operating system standard streams, allowing commands to be chained together to produce original programs. It shows our interest for programming, for the GNU/Linux operating system and Free software in general. But moreover it reflects our interest for language, and how the latter is a tension between existing standards and new meanings. We've been trained as classical graphic designers in the Valence school of Fine ArtsFR from 2004 to 2006, where we developed a strong interest in media and writing theory. In 2009, we graduated from the MA Media Design course of the Piet Zwart Institute in RotterdamNL. We strengthen our research and theory practice along developing our programming skills to apply them to graphic design.

Pierre Huyghebaert

Pierre Huyghebaert

Head of Digital Technology at Vietnam Press Holdings

Pierre Huyghebaert studied visual communication, typography and animation. In twenty years, he developed several practices around graphic design: co-founder of the type design label Hammerfonts, free-lancer and art director in various studios, co-founder of the studio Mind The Gap in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1993 with Karl Bassil, working in duo with the illustrator/photographer/cartoon publisher Vincent Fortemps mainly for the Belgian cultural world. After founding Normal, a non-profit association, he currently drives his own studio Speculoos alongside with the book designer Alexia de Visscher. They share Speculoos as a way to express their common conceptual processes and their interest for the ready- made. They see it as a structure dedicated to the development of specialized but eclectic projects in such fields as web interface, cartography, typographical creation, schematic illustration, software development management and book design. Since 2003, Pierre also teaches book design and complex visualization projects at the Digital Arts section of La Cambre art school in Brussels. He collaborates with visual artists, including Honoré d’O, Patrick Corillon, Vincent Meessen.

OpenDesignWeeks, April, 2-10, Ho Chi Minh City

  • Monday, April 2 Visit of university in IICMC

    8:00AM-5:00PM Presentation and Introduction of software tools for designers

  • Tuesday, April 3 Workshop sessions at TMA solution

    8:00AM-5:00PM Workshops Sessions at TMA Solution in Quang trung Software City

  • Wednesday, April 4 Workshop sessions / Visit to designer labs and companies

    8:00AM-5:00PM Workshops with students and designer labs and companies visit in FPT arena

  • Thursday, April 5 Exhibition preparation

    8:00AM-5:00PM Exhibition preparation at Lam Design Studio HCM

  • Friday, April 6 Set up and opening of Open design Exhibition

    10:00AM-5:00PM Set up opening of Open design Exhibition with local partners at Trung Nguyen Cafe

  • Saturday, April 7 Designers Preparation

    10:00 AM Designers Preparation for second week

  • Sunday, April 8 Mekong Excursion and arrival in Cantho City

    7:00AM- 7:00PM Excursion and gathering material "Between Folk Art and Industrial production" in Mekong and arrival in Cantho

Open Design Weeks, April 9-15, 2012, Can Tho City

  • Monday, April 9 Opening with VIP guests

    9:00 AM Opening

    1:00 PM Opening

  • Tuesday, April 10 Workshops : Font Design Workshops and discussions

    9:00AM-12:00PM and 1:30PM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

    9:00AM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

  • Wednesday, April 11 Boat tour, visit and Preparation for 2nd Workshops Workshops and discussions

    6:00AM-10:00AM Mekong floating market boat tour, crocodile island and cantho museum visit.
    11:AM-6:00PM OSP gathers and co-works with local designers for preparation of 2nd Workshop

    9:00AM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

  • Thursday, April 12 Workshop : Collaborative Publication Workshops and discussions

    9:00AM-12:00 PM and 1:30AM-5:00PM Workshop( Day 1 ) : Collaborative Publication

    9:00AM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

  • Friday, April 13 Workshop : Collaborative Publication Workshops and discussions

    9:00AM-12:00 PM and 1:30AM-5:00PM Workshop( Day 2 ) : Collaborative Publication

    9:00AM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

  • Saturday, April 14 Design Camp and Open Design Dinner Workshops and discussions

    9:00AM-4:00PM Design Camp Cantho: Public presentation of design work, ideas and software
    7:00 PM Open Design Dinner: Good Bye Mekong Delta

    9:00AM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

  • Sunday, April 15 OPS Travels Back Workshops and discussions

    8:00AM OPS Travels Back to Europe

    9:00AM-5:00PM Libre Graphics and Open Source Design Workshops and Sessions

  • Friday, April 6, 8:00PM Exhibition Opening

    Opening of the Open Design Exhibition featuring free artworks from designers across the globe. Libre Graphics Artworks including Free Fonts, Posters, Comics and Books on display at district 1 in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) Open Source Design Paintings, Inkscape Art, Map art and Libre Art books at FOSSASIA Open Design Exhibition in Saigon. Location: Trung Nguyen Cafe, 19B Pham Ngoc Thach, Dist. 1, HCMC, Web: www.trungnguyen.com.vn

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  • Meet Artists and Designers at the Exhibition

    The Open Design Weeks Exhibition takes place at the Saigon Art Cafe in Ho Chi Minh city. Afterwards the exhibition will be moved to Hotel Xoai in Can Tho permanently.

  • Open Source Publishing

    OSP (Open Source Publishing) is an interdisciplinary and international collective based in Brussels, Belgium that uses only Free, Libre and Open Source Software (F/LOSS). Since 2006, OSP tests the possibilities and realities of doing design, illustration, cartography and typography using a wide range of F/LOSS tools. We realise that modifying and expanding the tools we are working with, while engaging deeper with the communities that develop them, change both our practice and the designs we are creating.

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Memories of Open Design Weeks

The Open Design Weeks in the Mekong Delta brought together designers and software developers from East and West. Hundreds of students participated in workshops about Libre Graphics tools such as Inkscape, Gimp and Scribus.

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A little more about the Open Design Weeks

The Open Design Weeks were organized by FOSSASIA in Vietnam as part of our efforts to promote Free/Libre design practices and share tools and best practices with designers in Asia. An Open Design track is also taking place at the annual FOSSASIA Summit.

Organizers

Hong Phuc Dang

Hong Phuc Dang

FOSSASIA Founder
Mario Behling

Mario Behling

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Events are taking place in the Mekong-Delta Vietnam.