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Cofounder of E+K, Elise Gay & Kevin Donnot design studio

Cofounder of Back Office, a journal between graphic design and digital practices.

Professor of graphic design and digital practices at HEAR Strasbourg, France.

Based in Paris

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Hello,

As a professional book designer and graphic design professor, I am sorry but I can’t rely to switch my main tools (and student guidance) over policy claim from Canva.

I totally get that inference and maintaining software is very costly. If the business model is only oriented toward AI tools, a very good proof of good faith would be to open source and provide a pay-per-use AI API. I have no doubts that a good part of the graphic design community would quickly shift to free as in free speech tools with a foreseeable future. We desperately need a Blender for DTP…

Jgs Font 2 years ago

Yes, excellent paper! It’s to great to see a (free-libre-open source) foundry like Velvetyne also contributing to research.

1. This initiative is vital to contemporary book design which suffers from a total monopole owned by Adobe.

2. Book designers and digital UI designers are two distinct jobs which need to overlap to go further: designing books with code, include in print design what we learnt from the Web, transmit typographic culture to the digital designers eye, etc.

Long life Paged.js!

(until browsers finally support W3C specs for paged print, CSS-Regions and others)